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Professional Automotive Repair Technical Discussions for January 21, 2004 International Automotive Technicians' Network (iATN) - Members Only |
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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1992 Ford Ranger STX 4.0L Poor Idle Quality, Surge VIN: 1FTCR15X7N The truck runs and idles poorly after a 15 minute hot soak. The problem does not occur on cold startup, or if the truck sits longer than 20 to 25 minutes. We have checked inputs and outputs with a breakout box and everthing looks good. Power and ground look go... |
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| 1992 Ford Crown Victoria 4.6L Pass compement VIN: 2FACP72WXN Hi all, Hope you can help me with this Crown vic. I mantain a fleet of 12 of them rangeing from 1992 to 1997 and this one has got the best of me! We get poor heat from this car no mater what we do! We just got out of a sub zero cold snap and just can not get ... |
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| 1997 Ford F-250 XL 7.3L No Start, Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1FTHX25F0V Hello, Yesterday ( 01-20-2004) this truck came in, via tow truck, upon initial ck out with scanner code 344 was the only current & history code. The truck did start & run with no power, rough idle & high output of white fuel smoke; found no water in fuel,rpm... Trouble codes: 344 (camshaft position sensor circuit fault) |
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| 1997 Ford Ranger XLT 4.0L No Start VIN: 1FTDR15X1V Vehicle was towed in for no start, customer tried to change plugs, but could only get one of them changed, checked antitheft, ok, checked fuel pressure- ok, vehicle had spark, and tried to start but stalled, installed plugs and new wires, still no start, check... |
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| 1999 Ford F-550 Super Duty Lariat 7.3L Excessive Emissions VIN: 1FDAF56FXX Heavy smoke when you idle up to work roll back or idle up in the morning to warm up. truck runs great and pulls good. does not smoke any other time. no codes other then ebp code. all powerstrokes seem to keep this code. new inj. and ipr seems to be fine.also s... |
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| 2000 Ford F-150 5.4L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Misfire VIN: 1FTRX18LOY well to begin originally the vehicle came in with misfire code #1 . compalaint was it was misfiring . replaced spark plugs and #1 coil pack. problem seemed to be solved,misfire went away for a week . customer brings vehicle back says vehicle intermittently mis... Trouble codes: P0301, P0306 |
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| 1999 Mercury Cougar 2.5L Instrument Panel VIN: 1ZWFT61L8X Customer claims - 7 - 10 minutes into a drive, all I/P warning lights start flashing, car quit, then pulled off the road, vehicle would not immediately restart, restarted 10 minutes later, now I/P lamps flashing, wipers on with switch off, engine running very ... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1991 Ford Tempo GL 2.3L Surge VIN: FAPP33S8MK I want to thank the great IATN Network and especially TY, PHONG, BARRY, ROGER & JEFFERY, That hit the nail on the head. It was the relearn process that took a long time. Tried 3 15 minute runs, no luck. Finally a half hour did it! THANKS AGAIN TO ALL |
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| 1994 Ford F-250 XL 7.3L glow plugs found problem customer rewired glow plug cotroler so the current was not going though the resitor ribbon. replaced all glows and controler all ok thanks for the help vince. |
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| 1995 Ford E-350 Econoline 5.8L Stall VIN: 1FBHE31H3S hi friends techs thanks for all the answers.few said to ck trans filter nad pcv for vacuum leaks.well,we found that the trans and n.s.sw were replaced.(thanks to you guys we asked the right questions)among also the dist cap,rotor and plugs.when we played with ... |
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| 1996 Ford Taurus GL 3.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FALP52U0T Thanks to all who replied. The overwhelming majority seemed to stress this IS usually a cat problem and warned against aftermarket cats. This is a 3rd vehicle for the customer that is driven by a teenage son, being this isnt a saftey concern , they declined ... Trouble codes: P0430. |
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| 1997 Ford Taurus LX 3.0L stuck gas pedal VIN: 1FALP53S2V hi all this ford is fixed with a new throttle cable. and a new battery took 3 days to get it to do it after sitting in the cold air of michigan. out of the the things i have done in my life joining this group is one of the best things i have done! just for t... |
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| 1997 Ford F-350 7.3L Unknown VIN: SS1FJW35F6 About all reply's suggested that all electonic be fully checked. We decided to sent to local transmission shop. They said front pump was bad and valve body trouble. they are rebuilding now. Thanks for all the suggestions that was sent. This was a little more t... |
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| 1997 Ford E-350 Econoline 5.4L turn/flashers/brake lights VIN: 1FTJE34L8V Fix for this problem was a combination of things, the O.E. replacement multi switch was bad, along with the wagner replacement flasher, replaced both the motocraft switch and wagner flasher with second motocraft part and all is now fine, also had no dash light... |
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| 1998 Ford Escort ZX2 Cool Coupe 2.0L No Start VIN: 3FAFP1137W thanks for the info the crank sensor did indeed run off the flywheel. i removed radiator fan and it was much easier to see and made access to it alot easier. well the crank sensor was broken and after replacement the car started and runs fine. |
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| 1998 Ford F-150 4.2L engine VIN: 1FTZX172XX thanx to all who sent help to us on this one! the problem was as all of you said (cam syncronizer). we found the sync. was almost siezed up. we are not finished with the truck yet, however i'm confident that the problem has been solved! thank you all for the h... |
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| 2001 Ford Windstar LX 3.8L Electronic VIN: 2FMZA51481 hi friends thanks to mark from oklahoma,david from michigan,michael from new jersey and brian from washington.after replacing both front abs sensors the code po503 came back and the speedometer still was fluctuating.listening to michael from new jersey,we chec... |
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