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50 thoughts on “Ford escape: crank no start”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ozzy Krahn says:

    i love how he used his tool bag as a bible, thats funny

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars botheone40 says:

    Id gave couple hundred robbed the cats off it scrapped it

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SilenceDogood says:

    Kinda foolish not going with the new engine… for 6-7 months payment on a new car you could get years out of this one…

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars scott McIntosh says:

    Found on the road dead

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Antonio Claudio Michael says:

    Blue smoke of Head Gasket Death Ouch surprised she started Eric O @SouthMainAutoRepairLLC

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars fryguy42005 says:

    The no start might be a fuel pump relay my EcoBoost just did it she would crank and no start

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jvst20051 says:

    I would of saved up the money and then get it fixed there no need for a new car

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James Stuart says:

    Just an idea, but why not stop the video after you've done all your testing, and ask the viewer What's Your Verdict? Let the commenters have at it and a couple of days later post the second half of the video. Bit more interactive & challenging

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ronald Kubert says:

    I would trust you

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Romane Shaw says:

    I have a van just like that giving me the same starting problem

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Johnny Sechrist says:

    To bad he didn't donate it.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars redhotcobra94 says:

    Thought this was going to turn into a porno. Very disappointed

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Queen says:

    I trust you and old Scotty. Y'all help us shade trees out

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Finn Friedrich says:

    do you know, where is the crash button in a ford escape 2001? hello from germany…. first i think my fuel pump is damaged, now i search for the fck crash button for check xD

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert mitchell says:

    The engine sending smoke signals to Chief wahoo

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Happy Wrenching says:

    Couldn't the heads be pulled, milled, repaced cam cap bolts and new head gasket?

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tanks critters and urban homesteading says:

    Bottle of k seal she'll be all right😌

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars dave scott says:

    I love Perry's ice cream!

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Charles Robert says:

    My Escape was still running great at 255 then the plastic connector to the lower heater return hose broke fifty miles from home. Jimmy fixed it, added a gallon of water every 5 miles. After 5 refills the car rolled to a stop and died. Towed home, fixed line, tried to restart, it cranked until battery died multiple times. Checked plugs, had spark but thought it might be fuel cut off switch but wasn't, Replaced with fuel pump with one bought 3 years earlier thinking it was ready to go out. After watching you give the final rights I finally gave up. I really miss my Escape which was nimble and quick compared to my Toyota Highlander which drives like a bus.

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Doe says:

    I need help with a Ford please can you contact me 2003 escape XLT I have done a ful pump diagnostic fuse is good x2 pump clicks over done leads and plugs and oil change car starts but I have to fether the exellerator to keep it running it will die if I stop any ideas please help

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cornell Custom Trains says:

    Found
    On
    Road
    Dead

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Rouse says:

    Bet his kids next mode.of transportation are either,two white horses,bycicle, or.Euber. 😂😂

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bulldog77 says:

    Found On Road Dead (FORD)! Luv your stuff!

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Joe Day says:

    Sad to see that happen to this rig. I have a 2002 with 205k miles, and still running strong. I replaced the radiator at about 170k because the plastic for the upper hose had rotted away. I had noticed the leak, so the engine never overheated. These are great little rigs, and it's sad to see one die.

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kasual Skeptik says:

    A wise man once said, "don't buy someone else's problems"…

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Keith Anderson says:

    That's some funny shit right there……amen

  27. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Clayton Coolidge says:

    Reminds me of when a local used car dealer was buying auction vehicles and was having them dropped at my shop sight unseen he sent over a Charger with a 5.7l Hemi. It was obvious that it was overheated and no compression on 7 of 8 cylinders. I had a hunch that it wasn't the rings and likely the valve seats fell out of the head. Turns out I was right after I pulled the heads and found valve seats hanging off the valves. Obviously the pistons had very slight imprints from hitting them. Customer was adamant on fixing it so slapped new heads waterpump and misc gaskets and hoses and because I am a performance tech I gasket matched ported and polished the heads and put it all together. Ran nicely and at first shifted nice. I had already done the fluid and filter on the tranny as it was burnt but still ok and I was confident that it was just from overheating and not an already dying tranny. A few weeks later I found the car in my driveway and a note. …. it read you were right the tranny was ok till yesterday and now it has permanent nuteral in all positions. Whats it going to cost to fix…. he learned a very valuable 2500$ lesson. When engine was severely overheated odds are that the tranny is hurt badly and may as well figure that it will need a new one shortly after repairs to engine are done

  28. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Matthew Henick says:

    Time of death 10:10am..

  29. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Zach Bruner says:

    Perry’s. Good ice cream. Not a sponsor

  30. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars the reptile guyz says:

    the egg came 1st to other creatures some kind of dinosaur both Have the same genetic traits And they probably Laid an egg with a chicken in it lol

  31. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars George Holbein says:

    Any water in the oil ?? Didn't see a oil check …

  32. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars brad howse says:

    R i p Ford Escape

  33. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Richard says:

    Just change my oil and don't you dare try to upsell me!!

  34. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Peter Rubchinuk says:

    I dont unerstand why you wouldnt just replace the head gasket?

  35. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars geonerd says:

    "Talk to the People."
    US PEEPLE NEED TO KNOW!! 😛

  36. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Larry Ehrlich says:

    I felt like you were beating a dead horse…trying to get him to run. May the starter rest in peace after that torcher.

  37. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars KEN MCCORMICK says:

    you do not think that, it is a new way to exhaust the engine. You think "new and improved".

  38. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Med Tec67 says:

    Throw some bars leak in it and ship it lol

  39. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars luke codere says:

    She got a new aftermarket stack! Cut out thru the hood cool hoodstacks

  40. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chad Valliere says:

    That sucks, looks like a fairly nice ride

  41. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Martin T says:

    Hi what was the Honda in there for?

  42. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars markfx12 says:

    $2500 and he has a car with a known history. Can he get a car with $2500? Sorta never understood this reasoning. If it was, say $5K to fix it, alright junk it. Otherwise he is buying an unknown car that might need a boatload of work in the near future.

  43. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars BRANDON says:

    Nice headlamps

  44. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hola! Steven Martin says:

    “I’ve got it set on nuclear” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  45. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars mopac88 says:

    Last Rites LMAO!!

  46. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Richard Hemingway says:

    Such a shame. It looked like a good vee hickle. I was sorry to give up on my Mitsubishi Shogun (Pajero/Montero). V6 3.0l. When the head gasket went on that, it leaked into the exhaust. Made a horrible smell in the cat. Tried restarting it after inspection and it hydraulically locked up, with water in the left bank of cylinders. Cranked it again, with the plugs out and it shot water into the neighbours front yard. Drove it without water, onto the scrap man's flatbed. Sad day.

  47. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SuMo1778 says:

    Mechanic identifies issue. Says to camera lets keep revving the fire outta this ol girl

  48. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars agmc4me says:

    Ford forward exhaust option

  49. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Armando Medina says:

    Looked like a diesel running… Lol

  50. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Marc Harris says:

    Those escapes were pretty damn good vehicles.

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