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Professional Automotive Repair Technical Discussions for February 22, 2004 International Automotive Technicians' Network (iATN) - Members Only |
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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1990 Ford F-250 Custom 5.8L high idle speed VIN: 1FTHX26H8L Hi Ford techs: Have an intermittent situation where the idle speed will flare up on its own to almost 3,000rpm's and stay there. Then, drive for a bit, and it will idle normal. continue to idle, and idle will surge after 5-10 min. of idling, not to 3k, but 100... Trouble codes: 21 (coolant temp signal problem), 24 (intake air temp out of range) |
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| 1995 Ford Explorer XL 4.0L Cooling system VIN: 1FMDU32X75 This Explorer is killing us. Truck is new to us, arrived this fall from Texas. Customer complained of no heat and a temperature gauge that wanders from "C" to the first hash mark, then back. He had thermostat replaced twice in TX with no change in gauge action... |
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| 1996 Ford F-250 Special 7.3L Misfire, MIL Lamp on Customer came in about closing time on Saturday evening.Complaint was that Truck developed a miss and that it would come and go. It would turn on the MIL when it ran bad and it would go out and stop missing. Have not had time to do any thing else customer left... Trouble codes: P0605, P1746 (Pressure controll sol open circut), P0282 (Cly 8 low), P0476 (Exhaust pressure controll valve low output) |
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| 1998 Ford Mondeo 1.8L remote door lock VIN: WFOAXXGBBA Hi techs, this is my own Mondeo with remote door lock inop. When locked/unlocked with key everything works OK. Replaced bateries inside key - LED flashes but nothing else.Tried to disconnect and reconnect batery - no change. Anybody knows where locking ECM and... |
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| 1998 Mercury Mountaineer 5.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 4M2ZU55P7W vehicle came in with mil. illuminated, checked for codes had a p0430 in history, no other codes no symptoms, cleared code and ran diagnostics for code p0430 cataylst efficiency monitor below acceptable threshold bank 2, no real noted misfiring but did notice w... Trouble codes: P0430 (bank 2 catalyist threshold below normal) |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1994 Ford F-150 XL 5.0L Hesitation, Surge, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTEX15N3R Replaced computer and problem has not returned. When performance symptoms occured the 5 volt reference voltage would drop to 2.4 volts causing the problems. Do not believe it had anything to do with the trailer wiring. Probably just happened about the same tim... Trouble codes: 172 (411 -), 411 (412 -), 412 (testing and results). |
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| 1995 Ford Contour GL 2.5L Poor Fuel Economy, MIL Lamp on Hey everybody, finally got this car back to test the theories and suggestions that everbody gave. Turns out it was the converters that were clogged up and causing the tube to blow off. Thought the conveters were good since the emmisions sticker said they were ... |
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| 1997 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer 5.0L tortion bars/eng mounts VIN: 1FMDU35P8V sorry for the delay but the customer had to make up his mind. the fix was the transfer case--it was slipping-- Customer decide to live with the problem for a little while. I want to say thanks for all the replies I did rec' Thank You |
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| 1994 Lincoln Town Car 4.6L inst panal light's &headlight's VIN: 1LNLM81W9R Thank's to all the great tech's that replied. The yellow sense wire had a very high voltage drop traced wire to fuse box underhood passanger side. Took fuse box apart and found all the termales green cleaned termales prolbem sloved. Thank's to Paul who hit the... |
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| 1998 Mercury Villager GS 3.0L Rear Heater VIN: 4M2ZV1118W Hi All, I want to thank everyone for their help...all had about the same info, the problem is in the dash mounted Heater/A/C control assy. circuit board, it has a solder connection and foil that is unable to handle the current of the rear motor and eventuall... |
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