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Professional Automotive Repair Technical Discussions for January 19, 2004 International Automotive Technicians' Network (iATN) - Members Only |
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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1987 Ford F-150 Custom 4.9L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out, Stall, Misfire, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 1FTVF15Y5H this vehical has decent compression 155 across but my fuel prssure is 50 psi running 60 with reg disconnected what drives pressure high it's friday i'm brain dead |
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| 1992 Ford F-150 Custom 4.9L AIR tube VIN: IFTEX15YXN I had to remove AIR Tube to send head to machine shop. Broke two pipes in head removing the assembly. Dealer wants $247,need to know if any one knows of an after market source for AIR tube assemblies. having to eat that. Thanks for any help David |
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| 1995 Ford Contour GL 2.0L No Start VIN: 1FALP6531S I've checked all sensors with the MODIS and they read good. But all the injectors are pulsing at the same time. Is this normal for this car? If not what is? I'm really lost here. The car acts like it's tring to start but don't start completly up. Checked timin... |
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| 1997 Ford F-250 7.3L Poor Fuel Economy, power loss/rpm drop VIN: 1FTHF25F3V Hello everyone! The best way to make this problem appear, is to idle the truck in the shop, then rev engine to 1500rpm. After about 10-15 seconds the rpm drops 500rpm. The engine even sounds different, louder, like it's being worked. The vehicle even sometimes... |
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| 1998 Ford Contour GL 2.0L timing belt VIN: 1FAFP6631W I hope someone has seen this before. This vehicle came in with a broken timing belt. The belt had riden to the outer edges of the pullies and the covers wore the belt to less than half the normal width before it finally broke. I replaced the belt, tensioner, a... |
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| 1999 Ford F-250 Super Duty XL 7.3L loss power, no turbo VIN: 1FTNX21FOX Hello and Thanks for Reading My request. This vehicle will intermit. not accel up hill max speed on a steep hill would be about 30mph and 2500 rpms. Customer states that it acts like it should down shift, and also Turbo will not spool up. The Customer did try ... |
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| 1999 Ford Windstar LX 3.8L front end VIN: 2FMZA5141X This front end of this van has started shaking violently at speeds as slow as 35mph. It is not consistent though. Sometimes it will deminish when you make a turn. Have any of you guys seen this before? The owners are afraid to drive this p.o.s. Thanks |
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| 2000 Ford Ranger XL 4.0L reverse VIN: 1FTZR15X2Y Hello fellow techs I justr got this ranger in , and it belongs to a very good customer so i'm trying to help him out even though i'm not very familier with automatic transmissions.This truck drives fine in drive shifts good.The trans. oil was very clean and ... |
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| 1993 Mercury Villager GS 3.0L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Surge, Misfire, runs rich VIN: 4M2DV11W1P injectors just pouring fuel thru engine, blue smoke, won't idle, bareley can get to run if you replace spark plugs. scan data shows ect normal, tps normal and sweeps okay. maf seems okay, even tried unplugging. when it tries to run, shows very little engine va... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1992 Ford Ranger Custom 4.0L block Well I can't say it's fixed,.. but I want to closed out this e-mail. My biggest problem is, that I have never rebuilt an engine ever in my life. Give me any diagnostic problem anyday, and I can deal with that. But this was just OVER my head. What I was trying ... |
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| 1993 Ford Taurus SHO 3.2L valve train?? VIN: 1FALP54P8P this vehicle apparently has deeper engine issues. seems ford has discontinued most replacement parts for this yamaha made engine. customer is searching the web for a used engine to either use as spare parts or as a drop in replacement for current engine. eithe... |
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| 1996 Ford E-150 Econoline 5.8L steering box VIN: 1FDEE14H5T The vehical is gone and the problem is finally figured out. I had 5 replies that were all good but we were looking too hard. The original problem was mis-understood from the initial contact with the customer (that never happens)! We did correct his concern in ... |
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| 1996 Ford Explorer XLT 5.0L Torsion Arms/Bushings ? VIN: 1FMDU32PXT Greetings all, Finally was able to get this one back in and check it out a bit closer. Seems the torsion arms were simply transmitting the noise the lower ball joints were making. There was no play in them, axially nor laterally. I was able to get a right an... |
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| 1997 Ford Taurus GL 3.0L eatc a/c VIN: 1FALP53S5U performed blend door tsp replacement of secondary door |
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| 1997 Ford F-150 Lariat 5.4L MIL Lamp on VIN: 2FTEF17LXV The customer has not returned yet for us to recheck it ,probably tomorow now that I said that most said to recheck for vacuum leaks. I felt I had checked the system over but who knows.Others said a bad map. If it comes back and I find anything else I will repo... Trouble codes: P0171, P0174. |
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| 1998 Ford Taurus SE Comfort 3.0L Door locks VIN: 1FAFP58S5W Hello everyone. I received some good replies on this one. It sounds like there are a bunch of common problems with this system.The BCM and the drivers door switch have already been replaced and problem still occurred. I switched the relays around with known go... |
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| 1998 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer 4.0L power windows VIN: 1FMZU32E1W well customer took vehicle before i could finish checking vehicle but i found some aftermarket wiring that was tied into this same circuit but could not finish checking |
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| 1994 Mercury Villager GS 3.0L distributor noise VIN: 4M2DV11WXR Thanks to all who replied. After replacing the distributor and still having the noise, the timing belt cover was removed and a new belt and tensioner installed. The noise was gone. Original timing belt was still on the car with 166,000 miles. The slop in the t... |
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| 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis GS 4.6L Cruise Control VIN: 2NFFM74W31 Problem was a bad deactivation switch. I just did't know what to look for. Chuck [...]@aol.... |
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