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Professional Automotive Repair Technical Discussions for January 13, 2004 International Automotive Technicians' Network (iATN) - Members Only |
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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1991 Ford F-150 Custom 5.0L Hesitation, Cuts out, Misfire VIN: 1FTEF15NXM Sometime at idle or mostly at cruise, vehicle will cut out\miss briefly. New cap rotor wires plugs. Routed wires properly to prevent crossfire or interference with primary. When problem occurs, you can watch the tach needle on the dash drop off suddenly like i... |
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| 1992 Ford Escort GT 1.8L Steering Wheel VIN: 1FAPP1281N Installed new combo turn/wiper switch, had to remove steering wheel,noticed a lot of in and out play like old telescopic wheel in GM cars,about 1 inch of play. Not normal? What is fix? |
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| 1992 Ford Bronco Custom 5.8L Hesitation, Misfire, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 1FMEU15H7N hello everyone i have this bronco that has a enginge mis when taking off. when the truck first came in ruuunning like that found #3 wire no good so did complete tune up truck engine only has 20k miles an it scanned for codes none present.checked the egr valve ... |
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| 1997 Ford F-350 XL 7.5L Mechanical VIN: 1FTHF36G7V I have a 1997 ford F350 with a hard brake pull both left and right. The customer brought it to me with a pull to the right during braking. Upon road test I noticed that it would only pull on intial application of the brakes, meaning that if you could hold the ... |
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| 1998 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer 5.0L tcc VIN: 1FMZU35P5W Truck came in with overdrive light flashing.Scan test code P0741.Clear code road test no slippaged detected.At 50-50mph tcc% was 100% output speed reading was 1850 when light starts flashing right after tcc % drops to 0.We thought we had a bad tcc solenoid.Aft... |
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| 1999 Ford Taurus LX 3.0L Climate Control VIN: 1FAFP5359X Hi Group ! Customer complaint is poor heat from ducts. Temp here in OH is in the twenty's. I have found that driving down the road with the auto climate control on, the temp gauge barely goes above cold, which is 164 deg on NGS. If I turn off the climate contr... |
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| 2000 Ford Focus SE 2.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FAFP34PXY I thought I had run into every possibility of code P0171 and fixed them all, but I'm in trouble here. The MAF on this was definitely out of spec, and has been replaced with a Ford unit, theoretically new and not remanufactured. MAF voltage at idle changed slig... Trouble codes: P0171 (System lean) |
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| 1993 Lincoln Town Car 4.6L engine VIN: 1LNLM81W3P this engine runs good, no codes are set, passes state emission test, however it blows blue smoke on acceleration after it idles at stop lights, and uses about one quart of oil every four to five hundred miles, my thouht is bad valve seals, but i have been told... |
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| 1999 Lincoln Navigator 5.4L 4 x 4 operation VIN: 5LMPU28A2X see previous repair history for a total description of the issue. i have a 99 navigator with a 4wd binding issue and an unknown code b2106. |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1990 Ford Thunderbird 3.8L ABS and Brake dash Lights VIN: IFAPP64R7L I checked all wiring and sure enough the ABS module was bad. Ther was power at both +12v leads and a great ground. But due to the cost of the module the customer is holding off till he gets some cash. One reason I believe the module failed eis I noticed the st... |
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| 1991 Ford Mustang LX 2.3L od VIN: 1FACP41M8M I received 10 replies in first 24 hrs. Virtually all said same thing. 'od one way clutch failure' This will require Trans rebuild. Customer decided to continue operation of the vehicle in 'D' gear position until failure. Many thanks to those who replied. |
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| 1992 Ford Ranger Custom 2.3L Stall VIN: IFTCR10A5N The customer didn't want to spend any more money. The truck actually started and ran after we pulled the O2 sensor. It did not have very good power but the customer got it home. The funny thing is the truck did not have a cat convertor and no apparent exhaust ... Trouble codes: 157 (MAF too low). |
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| 1995 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L no rear heat at idle and intermittant no heat fron VIN: 2FMDA5148S Customer decided that they were going to take the vehicle & see what happens, 8 days later it was back again and now it had all the signs of head gasket problems: no heat, the coolant bottle was full & the radiator was low, had a misfire on startup that would ... |
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| 1997 Ford Taurus GL 3.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FALP52U0V Well, it turned out to be the vacuum solenoid for the diverter valves that was the problem here. Seems that it would work most of the time. On one instance i felt the valve click but it would not open to allow vacuum to reach the diverter valves. Replacement o... Trouble codes: P0411 (Secondary air injection system incorrect air flow detected). |
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| 2002 Ford Focus ZX3 2.0L temp gauge /cooling fan VIN: 3FAFP31302 Well ROBERT [...] (thanks) nipped it in the bud. Kinda got side tracked from the beginning (lisened a little too much to the customer -'i think i have a bad gauge - my car is not overheating (boiling over)' Alldata didn't have detailed info on how the dual f... |
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| 1983 Lincoln Mark VI 5.0L fuel gauge VIN: 1MRBP98F4D first i want to take time to thank everyone in the iatn chat room who spent a long time with trying to figure this car out... it came down to the car does have a slosh module and its made3 into the fuel gauge... it looks as though i have 2 bad units.. i could ... |
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| 1999 Lincoln Navigator 5.4L No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out, Stall, Misfire VIN: 5LMRU27A2X Hi Guys, Thanks for all the replies! David hit it on the head. He said to check fuel quality. It had 2 gallons of fuel in the tank along with the 4 vehicles that came in after him.Thanks again guys! God Bless you all!! Brian Trouble codes: P0300 (Random misfire). |
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