Loud growling/grinding in front end on start up
05-14-2013, 02:13 PM
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Loud growling/grinding in front end on start up
I have a 2011 F150 Screw Lariat EB. The past 2 months, I have started to notice a very loud growling/grinding noise that comes from the drivers side front-end right behind the radiator. It's not the fans or the secondary brake cylinder but something else. It only happens when you first start up and lasts about 5 seconds, then stops, the starts again for 5 seconds then stops. Sometimes it happens 3 times but only happens when you first start up. It has gotten progressively worse now and I am starting to smell plastic burning but I can't tell what this is. Has anybody run across this? If there is another topic on this issue elsewhere I apologize for starting this one.
05-14-2013, 02:49 PM
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I have a 2011 F150 Screw Lariat EB. The past 2 months, I have started to notice a very loud growling/grinding noise that comes from the drivers side front-end right behind the radiator. It's not the fans or the secondary brake cylinder but something else. It only happens when you first start up and lasts about 5 seconds, then stops, the starts again for 5 seconds then stops. Sometimes it happens 3 times but only happens when you first start up. It has gotten progressively worse now and I am starting to smell plastic burning but I can't tell what this is. Has anybody run across this? If there is another topic on this issue elsewhere I apologize for starting this one.
can you get a video for sound?
12-18-2013, 09:17 AM
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I started noticing this in the past few days too. I was suspecting it might have something to do with the brake cylinder as the sound was coming from that area. The truck has only 23k on it. What did they do at the dealership? Was it a full replace?
12-19-2013, 10:57 AM
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