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Professional Automotive Repair Technical Discussions for January 11, 2004 International Automotive Technicians' Network (iATN) - Members Only |
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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1989 Ford Escort GT 1.9L Poor Idle Quality, Surge VIN: 1FAPP93J9K Problem began with a higher than normal idle speed - 1100 RPM. Vehicle operated normally other than high idle. Later the same day, when vehicle was started again, it idled poorly for a few seconds before jumping up to 3000 RPM. It held this speed for several s... |
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| 1996 Ford Explorer XL 4.0L Hesitation VIN: IFMDU32X6T Gentlemen: Have developed a problem with this Explorer that we simply cannot find. We installed a long block about 3000 miles ago. While test driving after installation of new long block, we found an intermittant slight hesitation. This hesitation was so slig... |
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| 1997 Lincoln Town Car 4.6L speedometer VIN: 1LNLM81W1V For all the lincoln town car technicians... the customer compleint about the speedometer working when the car is on park ...i never see some like this ...the car on park at all and the speeddometer reds like 55mph then jumps to 120mph and the 5mph all the on p... |
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| 2001 Mercury Cougar 2.5L Hesitation, Surge, Stall, Misfire VIN: 1ZWFT61L91 greetins all, this car runs great until accel uphills, fuel pressure drops quickly to 12-6psi and returns to normal quickly if you come to a stop. Light or moderate accelleration runs fine /pressures fine, only firm to hard accel-up hills- will pressure drop a... Trouble codes: P0190, P0193, P0300 |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1994 Ford Ranger STX 2.3L No Start VIN: 1FTCR10AXR The Ranger lives, the injectors were the problem. It was like they had to have electrical current running thur them for awhile to warm up, before the pinto needle could move. Once they were removed, you could see a tar like substance on the inlet and in the sc... |
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| 1999 Ford Expedition XLT 4.6L Steering VIN: 1FMRU1863X After receiving responses from other members that these vehicles have a tendency to steer easy on the highway and getting the right info to scan the system and test it and finding no problems we returned the vehicle to the customer. |
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| 1987 Mercury Lynx GS 1.9L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Cuts out, Stall VIN: 1MELM45RTY Rechecked fuel pressure and got it down to 17 ponds by adjusting regulater .Checked for restricted return lines none found .Rechecked TPS when problem occured .Voltage would drop down to .4 and back up to 1.10 . Manually working throttle while watching TPs vol... |
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| 2000 Mercury Villager Sport 3.3L gaskets VIN: 4M2XV12T6Y Thanks for the replies. Van is done and gone. Four responses suggested a few different kinds of sealer. I ended up using Permatex Ultra-Gray. Van has 120,000, so if it holds up as long as OE, I'm in good shape. Fifth reply (came in after I'd left for work) did... |
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