07 expedition Front wheels won’t spin
Sorry for the long post!
A couple of months ago, I noticed that my expedition felt
sluggish when the brake pedal was released. I take my
foot off the brake and it won’t coast. When I first begin to
drive, it’s fine but after driving it for a while it will do this.
After a lot of stop and go, it’s much worse. I have to give it
a good bit of gas to get it to even move. This has been
progressively getting worse.
Then it started having mushy brakes. Brake pads are
mostly fine, outer front brake pads almost full while inners
have about a third of the lad left. It was also starting to
pull to the right as I would brake. Started to think a caliper.
The other night I started driving it and it had a thunking
noise, almost like a tire going flat. The drag on the engine
was much worse. Got it home and parked it until I went to
leave for a trip two days later. It sat on to cool off the
interior as we packed it and finished getting ready to
leave, maybe 20 minutes at the most. Drove the mile
around my loop about 20mph, was fine. Had to turn
around to get something, put it in park and sat another 5
minutes on. Leave and get on a main road at about 35
mph and it’s starts making the thunking noise again and
taking a considerable amount of gas to go. I don’t recall
the rpms but want to say it was up to 2500. Go home and
put it in park. Decide to take the car, put it in drive to get it
out of the way and it won’t move. Front tires won’t spin at
all and back tires dig into gravel. Took it out of over drive,
put it into 4 wheel high, still nothing. Put it into low and it
rolled right out.
Got home today and was able to get it to replicate after
driving it around a bunch and then letting it sit, putting it in
park, rolling forward, putting it in reverse, sitting, etc. for
about 30-45 minutes. The front brakes are super hot,
backs cool to the touch. Got it up on a jack and can’t spin
the fronts at all. Totally locked up. After about 15-20
minutes they spin freely. Have the truck running now to
see if it locks up again without actually driving it/using the
brakes. Nothing yet, it’s been about 20 minutes.
Any ideas? My worry in taking it to ford is getting there
safely as it’s a good 40 miles away and getting it to
replicate for them.