Yeah, sounds like my 96 2.5 5spd before it finally blew.
Started off sounding like valve tap, then it started knocking on a fairly consistant basis, then only half the cylinders would fire and finally it spun a bearing.
I remembetr the last day I drove it.
I had already had a new car for about 6 months, and haden't driven the Tour for a while, but I decided, eh since its completely shot why not rock it till the wheels fall off before junking it.
Man, it lasted about 2-3 weeks, and finally on the last day, sounding like an 80 something year old, 65 year Pall Mall smoker with lung cancer and emphasemia it wouldn't go above 50 MPH in any gear and then seized right as I pulled up to my weekly card game at the Knights, were it stayed for over 6 months before they forced me to junk it. Lol.
I kept swearing I was gonna tow it to a garage, swap a 3L in and do the ultimate sleeper, although I am not even sure if that is possible with the 1st gen Tour's. LMAO.
I just pulled up to the card game one day, and the car was gone, when I walked in, someone handed me my plates and said, " here, we figured we just junk it for you, I have a friend that owns a salvage lot".
LOL.
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