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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1985 Ford E-350 Econoline 6.9L No Start, Stall VIN: 1FTKE3418F hi, folks. on a cold start, this vehicle starts, runs for about one second, then dies. long crank time (about 8 to 10 seconds) before restarting- then runs fine. this evening, i noticed a stream of air bubbles through a clear tube teed into the return port on ... |
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| 1986 Ford F-150 XL 4.9L parasite VIN: 1FTDF15Y7G Hello Techs I have a mysterious draw on this truck. There is power on circuit 20 which begins at the igniton switch and powers the EEC relay, the ECM, ignition coil, and module. A sub circuit runs from circuit 20 to the radio noise capacitor. The mysterious... |
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| 1993 Ford F-350 XL 7.3L No Start VIN: 2FTJW36M5P truck came into our shop for hard start cold yesterday. i checked glow plugs (ok) controler (working properly) checked for air in system and filter housing was full of air. i bled system and vehicle started fine. i checked the mechanical lift pump and volume a... |
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| 1994 Ford Probe 2.5L Excessive Emissions, No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge, Stall, Misfire ive had to put a new pcm in car opened up found one terminal smoked got new pcm plugged in smoked same terminal in computer. ive found i had a ground problem the grounds for the module were hot so i traced i found a couple of wires were getting cross shorted i... |
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| 1995 Ford Escort LX 1.9L No Start VIN: 1FALP15J6S hi!i need a good ford guru here,this escort is very weird,it start sometimes and runs perfect,i shut off the engine and it doesn't start,shut the key off,restart and it runs,shut key off again it doesn't start and so on...i checked crank signal at ignition mod... |
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| 1997 Ford Explorer XL 4.0L 2 piece oil pan Need ford experts.Went to take oil pan down.Its a 2 piece pan.Removed all bolts that alldata said.10 bolts on lower pan,2 in oil pump screen,8 on inside upper pan,23 on sides of upper pan,2 in back of upper pan.I can't force it off.Is it on dowel pins or is th... |
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| 1997 Ford Taurus GL 3.0L windows-radio-steering VIN: 1FALP52U2V Hello all you Taurus experts out there: Had a customer come in today with a hard steering complaint. My boss and another tech. had a look at it and a test drive and found it had no power steering assist, so the pump was replaced. With the new pump installed i... |
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| 2000 Ford Taurus SE 2-Valve 3.0L Cuts out VIN: 1FAFP5526Y Hi, This car acts like the rev limiter is cutting in at approximately 4000 rpm. Cold, hot, on the highway, or sitting in the shop. The 5 gas shows no fuel when this happens. The computer shows nothing abnormal in data stream that I can see. It also does not s... |
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| 2001 Ford Econoline E350 Super Duty 7.3L Surge, Cuts out, Stall VIN: 1FDXE45E01 this unit seems like it loses fuel pressure intermittently. that is what it feels like. driving up a hill the van will slow right down to 0 kmph and barely idle. if you let it idle for 30 seconds to a minute it will rev up a little bit and you can get about 10... |
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| 1985 Lincoln Town Car 5.0L No Start VIN: 1LNBP96F4F Hi, This car cam in no start, and it has remained that way, we have looked at everything we can think of, Simu Tech'd and NO problems found. Replaced ECM with used unit I had (not same numbers) and the car will start and runs poorly, ordered a remanf computer... |
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| 1986 Lincoln Mark VII 5.0L Poor Idle Quality, Stall, Misfire VIN: LNBP98M4GY I have a 1986 lincoln mark7 that is giving problems, it idles rough and will stall but it starts right back up,fuel pressure is good charging system is good have checked the grounding system and have replaced the map sensor tps sensor air charge sensor and hav... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1989 Ford LTD Crown Victoria 5.0L head lights VIN: 2FABP79F5K The problem went away but Im clueless why they quit malfunctioning, Im hoping it does'nt act up again. I thank everyone for the suggestions. |
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| 1992 Ford F-150 Custom 4.9L AIR tube VIN: IFTEX15YXN Thanks for the eight replies I got.I was able to get the AIR tube from 'bbautoparts.com' in NY. $55.00 +$10. for shipping. It arrived yesterday. I am going to show the customer the replies that I received about the tube breaking, and that It would happen to an... |
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| 1993 Ford Aerostar Eddie Bauer 4.0L rack VIN: 1FMDA31X0P Well it's about time...Fixed.Thanks to all that applied. Got 8 replies, that sugested ball joints, lines, etc. Should be noted that prior to the request, several things where tried.(a list is below) Scott from Illinois hit it out of the park. As it turns out, ... |
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| 1995 Ford Probe GT 2.5L Poor Idle Quality, Surge VIN: 1ZVLT22BOS it wasnt a cracked intake pipe, all the hoses were intact, the IAC was working perfect, and all gaskets were sealed well. I would like to note, the ford probe is a joint venture between ford and mazda, this is the Mazda KL 2.5 V6, not the Ford Duratec 2.5 th... |
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| 1997 Ford F-250 XL 7.3L Low Power/No Boost VIN: 3FTHF26F8V i still don't believe it, but the ford people say it was a restricted cat conv. i have not had a chance to see, road test or anything else with the vehicle since the 'fix'. this truck was run without the exhaust system disconnected just ahead of the converter ... |
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| 1998 Ford Contour GL 2.0L timing belt VIN: 1FAFP6631W Thanks to everyone who replied. Customer dinied any further work and is going to return to the rebuilder. There was 8 replies, all good advise, the torque converter looked OK band the thrust bearings were OK the last time I look at it so I don't suspect any ba... |
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