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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1938 Ford COUPE 5.0L brake booster any brake wizzards out there?? this custom car is a 38 coupe body and frame with a 1989 5.0 v-8 h.o. with a supercharger. it has aftermarket 4 wheel disc brakes. the owner of car did not build it nor does he have much info on it. problem is while driving the b... |
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| 1990 Ford Pickup F250 5.8L No Start, Stall I am appealing to the Ford experts on this truck. The truck will always fire when ignition switch is in the "start" position but when released to the "run" position, it will die about half the time. The other half it will run normal. It is losing fire in the c... |
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| 1992 Ford E-250 Econoline 5.8L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Stall VIN: 1FTFE24H9N This job came to me after several people have tried to repair it and failed. The complaint is that the engine will die at idle or when accelerating. The problem is intermitant but gets worse when hot. If you accelerate slowley it is OK. If you stab the throttl... |
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| 1995 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L timing cover VIN: 2FMDA5140S Good morning, I have a simple question, hopefully someone has a simple answer.The Windstar has a coolant leak at the timing cover. My question is , can you remove the timing cover without removing the engine? Alldata and other materials state the engine must b... |
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| 1995 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L abs VIN: 2FMDA51405 Vehicle came in with ABS light on and ABS pump energizing on every stop. Performed scan test and found code for right rear wheel speed sensor problem. Confirmed intermittent operation of right rear wheel speed sensor. Replaced right rear wheel speed sensor, al... |
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| 1995 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer 4.0L No Start VIN: 1FMDU34XXS Hi all, Hope someone out there may be able to help me, concern has been occurring for past several months, as of yet no one has been able to duplicate concern, today however I was able to test while condition was present. When vehicle would not start, there wa... |
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| 1995 Ford Contour LX 2.5L Excessive Emissions, Hesitation, Misfire, lack of power VIN: 3FALP66L3S have done compression test and exhaust back pressure. also fuel volume at pressure. fouls plugs if allowed to idle cold. minor exhaust leak cold(manifold to pipe) that goes away at closed loop. hesitation much worse cold. runs very poorly to approx 3krpm then ... Trouble codes: 332 (koer egr syscomplaint remains with valve blocked off), 551 (imrc complaint the same with valves locked open or closed) |
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| 1995 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L No Start VIN: 2FMDA514DS Hi techs I got this van as a no start, has never started sence the other shop replaced leaking head gaskets. They could not recall for sure if it was driven to them or not. They think it was and that the engine had been running poorly for some time. It would i... |
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| 1996 Ford Ranger Splash 2.3L bleeding system VIN: 1FTCR14A3T We installed a new clutch master cylinder and a new clutch assembley including a new slave cylinder. The old slave was froze up. Everything went together fine, bled the system and got out a small amount of air. Cranked it up and cant get it into gear. Are ther... |
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| 1996 Ford F-250 XL 7.5L Hesitation, Cuts out, Misfire VIN: 1FTHX25G0T OK, Ford techs, I know someone has dealt with this before! This truck is giving us fits! When cold, it will fire immediately and idles fine. Upon acceleration when cold, it stumbles and pops-back thru intake as if lean condition exists. Problem is so apparent ... |
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| 1997 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer 4.0L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FMDU34E6V Hi folks' Wondering if I could get some help as to possible causes for repeated 153 and 151 codes for lean on bank #2. Replaced o2 #1 on that side for slow responce but no effect. Smoke tested intake for vac leaks but found none. Fuel pressure was ok on test... Trouble codes: P0153, P0151 |
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| 1997 Ford F-150 Lariat 5.4L transfer case VIN: 1FTEX08L4V Net techs, Hoping for some insight on this. 4 wheel drive occassionally won't engage at all, But when it does it makes a "terrible" noise until you slow down from like 35 to 15 mph and will clunk in. I have not experienced it my self. This is from the custome... |
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| 2000 Ford Ranger XL 3.0L Speedo & Trans VIN: 1FTRY10V7Y This truck is beating me up. It has the speed sensor in the diff. that sends signal to the GEM that then sends signal to the speedo head. The problem is that the speedo will drop out at random times and will always drop out when brakes are applied. When the br... |
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| 2000 Ford Ranger XL 3.0L Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTYR10V5Y Hi techs and thanks for your help in advance.This 2000 Ranger flex fuel is driving me batty. We have followed the diagnostic tree for code PO176 and replaced the flex fuel sensor. We have also replaced the pcm and ran new wires for both. When you backprobe the... Trouble codes: P0176 |
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| 2000 Ford Crown Victoria 4.6L starting system VIN: 2FAFP71W0Y Guys and Gals, Thanks for your time and effort. This Crown Vic is driven by a Constables Deputy. He says that every once in awhile when he tries to start it the fuse to the starting system blows. He will put another fuse in and it won't happen for a week or tw... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1994 Ford E-350 Econoline XL 5.8L front brakes VIN: 1FTJE34H9R thanks to all that replied , after some thought weds. night i decided to change front pads left to right and noticed that the pads had different numbers on them , i had bought loaded calibers one side had different quality pads on it harder friction than the o... |
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| 1995 Ford Mustang 3.8L Misfire VIN: 1FALP4049S i ended up finding this one by tossing out the info i was getting from my diagnostic tool. it was telling me there was a miss on cyl #5, when in fact, the miss was on #6 cyl. so i spent a lot of time looking in the wrong place, having none of the isolation tec... Trouble codes: P0306 (6 cylinder misfire). |
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| 1999 Ford F-150 Lariat 5.4L electric 4wd VIN: 2FTRX18L9X thanks to all who replied. it turned out to be a fuse box with water intrusion. we pulled it apart and it was a mess. this is the second one we've seen and it should be a recall. any time a vehicle can start on it's own it's dangerous. the fix repaired the rad... |
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| 1999 Ford F-150 4.2L Hesitation, Stall replaced maf work great thanks for the help no more hestation or stall customer is happy,New sensor is reading 4.5 V at snap throttle old one was slow resonding just cleared 2 V before |
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| 1998 Lincoln Navigator 5.4L TCC-slip code/vibration tcc- on VIN: 5LMPU28L2W I recieved 8 replies.Most of techs recommend to pay attension to correct fluide type and use anti shudder additives to correct this problem.Others told replace torque conv ,flush cooler and lines ,fill trans with only Ford Mercon type fluide (use additives) or... |
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