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Professional Automotive Repair Technical Discussions for February 16, 2004 International Automotive Technicians' Network (iATN) - Members Only |
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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1990 Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe 3.8L Harmonic Balancer VIN: 1FAPP64R5L Hey all you engine guru's. Have this t-bird super coupe here that has broken the harmonic balancer again. Turn back the clock a couple of months. I installed new plugs,wires,fuel and air filters. To try and fix a problem that wasn't showing itself at that time... |
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| 1992 Ford F-350 Custom 7.3L Master Cylinder VIN: 2FDKF37M6N Truck towed in with no brakes. originally had no pressure out of master cylinder. Replaced master cylinder,Rear shoes & wheel cylinders. Master cylinder seemed to be bypassing but only with engine running. This is a vaccum assist not hydroboost. With the engin... |
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| 1995 Ford F-150 Special 4.9L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge VIN: 1FTEF15Y65 This vehicle was towed in because it was hesitating so bad that the customer felt that he could not drive it in. I drove it and it did not seem that bad. I removed the spark plugs and found that they were very old. The compression was even at about 150 psi. I ... Trouble codes: 225 (No knock signal) |
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| 1995 Ford Contour GL 2.5L Poor Fuel Economy, MIL Lamp on Hello all. This is my first post, so forgive any mistakes I may make along the way. Anyway... This car originally came in with the rubber EGR tubes that go from the EGR tube to the DPFE sensor were crumbled and dry rotted. Replaced both Ref and Hi tubing and t... |
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| 1996 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer 4.0L High Center Brake Lamp VIN: 1FMDU34XGT The customer brought the vehicle to our shop with no working brake lamps. Diagnosis revealed that the Lamp Out Module had failed and was not sending a signal to the rear brake lamps. Replacing the lamp out module repaired the left and right brake lamps. The Ce... |
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| 1997 Ford Ranger XLT 4.0L front hubs VIN: 1FTDR15X9V hey guys and gals, got this ranger that has a popping noise in the front hubs. it only occurs when the 4wd is engaged and you turn the steering wheel. with the truck on the rack, in gear, the front axles turn as soon as you release the clutch but the hubs star... |
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| 1997 Ford Explorer XL 4.0L radio antenna VIN: 1FTJE34H9R trying to remove antenna from fender , removed mast , under plastic cover there is a 7/8 nut doesnt seem to turn , there are three torx screws attaching to fender that holds lower mast assembly if you remove them the lower assembly still wont come out . remove... |
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| 1998 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer 5.4L drive shaft, u-joints VIN: 1FMPU18L4W I have a 1998 Ford Expedition in which the customer complains of a vibration at all speeds. On a test drive the vibration becomes very noticable around 30 mph. With the vehicle lifted on a rack the vibration continues and noise can be heard from the drive shaf... |
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| 1998 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer 4.6L a4wd VIN: 1FMRU18W2W Good Evening Have this Expedition that will not actuate the front drive shaft while it is in A4WD while the rear wheels are spinning on ice. scan for codes ..none..the indicator lamp does come on while in A4WD, If i shift into 4hi it will turn the front drive... |
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| 1998 Ford E-350 Econoline 7.3L Misfire VIN: 1FDXE47F6W Hello to all The e350 Im working on needs #3 injector repaired-it appears to me that i cannot remove the injector without moving the engine-hopefully im just a little confused-the repair in alldata doesnt seem to differ from a pick up style vehicle-thanx in a... |
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| 1999 Ford F-250 Super Duty Lariat 5.4L Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 1FTNX20L2X Customer complaining of poor fuel economy all of a sudden. No codes but we have a ECT reading of -36 degrees. Seems easy enough, right. Wrong, Ford, Alldata and Identifix all say sensor is in the front of the intake. The temp unit in the manifold is for the ga... |
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| 2003 Ford WINDSTAR 3.8L head lamps VIN: 2FMZA57453 i have strange one here, customer has replace both head lamp bulbs 7 times on both sides, there is no water in side and the connectors are fine. i replace the brake light switch due to the lights where all way on. now he tells me that the bulbs do not last in ... |
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| 1998 Mercury Villager GS 3.0L Rear Heater VIN: 4M2ZV1118W Trying to get a heads-up on a repair scheduled for a few days from now. Customer says `rear heater fan doesn't work' checked fuses and all are OK. I'm positive I've read several e-mails about this problem and its repair, but after an hour searching the archiev... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1990 Ford Bronco Custom 5.8L Late upshifs VIN: 1FMEU15H2L It is fixed. The installer didn't plug in the electrical connector to the trans all the way. I did have some good replys from everyone. The TPS and MAP sensors can do this, as well as installing a trans with the wrong electronics. Thanks everyone. |
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| 1994 Ford F-150 XL 4.9L Cuts out, Stall, Misfire VIN: 1FTEF15Y0R This engine running problem was caused by the Electronic Pressure Control (EPC) solenoid in the transmission. The solenoid developed an open circuit which set the code 624 and caused the 'overdrive off' light to flash. The computer is programmed to protect the... Trouble codes: 624 (Electronic Pressure Control Circuit Failure). |
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| 1995 Ford Contour GL 2.5L Poor Idle Quality, Surge, HUNTING FOR IDLE VIN: 1FALP66L15 This vehcile came back to our shop several times while it was still surging. When it came back the first time we eliminated the a/c system since it would surge in all heating positions. We checked all of the systems we could think of and asked the customer to ... |
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| 1997 Ford Escort LX 2.0L wheel bearing VIN: 1FALP13P3V I have spent over 6 hours on this noise and still have not pinpointed the cause.Had some good responses one of which was about caliper slides which this car had one stuck, one on each side.Cleaned and lubed up the slides and cut the warped rotors for good meas... |
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| 1999 Ford F-150 Lariat 5.4L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTRX08L0X hello well i finally got this one back in the shop and it is now fixed ,found the power wire to the cv solenoid rubbed on the frame and green by the rear brake hose bracket . thank you to the 3 guys that replied. troy Trouble codes: P1451. |
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| 1999 Ford Taurus LX 3.0L Rack and pinion VIN: 1FALK58564 Excellent information and it confirmed the repair that had to be made and supplied the technical expertise needed to resolve this issue |
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| 1999 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer 4.0L 4wd system VIN: 1FMZU34E5X Thank you so much to the 5 people who replied to my request for help. The most helpful reply was from Jerry at Jerry's Repair Service. He sent me the Description of Operation from the Ford CD ROM. Of course, as you know from the update that I posted, I had alr... |
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| 2000 Ford Mustang 3.8L No Start, Pats system VIN: 1FAFP4046Y I want to thank all who took time to respond. The fix for this vehicle was a Pats transciever module and a new PCM. There is an awesome post by Matthew Ragsdale in the Technical Dicussion Forum on the operation of this system. Just type in 'Pats'. Using his ci... Trouble codes: B1681 (Pats transciever module signal not received), U1262 (com bus fault), B2141 (NVM config fail). |
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| 2002 Ford Ranger Edge 4.0L 2nd gear VIN: 1FTZR45EX2 Got good responses from the group on this one. Thanks to David [...] for the amazing detail. The common faults stated were valve body gasket and intermediate band adjustment and /or failure. Dropped the pan and valve body and found the bad gasket. Checked b... |
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