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Hello everyone!


I have a 1997 Sable and as I was backing out from my drive way, I heard a loud popping sound coming from the engine and from the frontwheels. I stopped and tried to go foward to getback on the drive wayand the popping noise was still there. I looked under the car and it was clear, then I tried to go on reverse butthe wheels didn't want to turn, I tried to go foward and the wheels didn't want to turn. I turned the car off, jacked the front of the war to where both front wheels were not touching the ground, I put itin N neutral and tried to turn the wheels with my hands but they only turned 1/4 spinand they lock up. The wheels make a sound in the tranny when I try to turn the wheels with my hands. I guess the bottom line is something locked the front wheels and if try to give it gas the motor jerks as it pops because I tried that too! ooops! poor sable. I was just wondering how bad this problem is and how much is going to cost me. is a 1997 sable, single cam 3.0 V6 and it has164,000 miles on


Thanks!
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Neighbor had a 95 Sable LS with 25k miles 2006 and tranny failed.


The mechs at the corner station oil change didn't bother checkingfluid. Repair was $2.2k. Cheap compared to newer tranny's and also because many Ford tranny's of this vintage fail before 100k.


At 164k that's beyond anything Ford had for reliabilty if it hasn't been overhauled once.