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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1974 Ford F-100 Pickup 6.4L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Stall, Misfire, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: F10YKV0025 Hi All, This is for the semi Old Timers. This is on my personal vehicle which I bought as a work truck. The previous owner could never make it run right and now I am in the same boat. This truck has an aluminum intake, holley 650cfm carb and headers, so I am a... |
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| 1993 Ford Festiva GL 1.3L Hesitation, Cuts out, Misfire VIN: KNJBT05H1P This car came in for an intermitant loss of power. When testing I found that it had a code for O2 sensor lean. I repaired a air leak on the air horn after the MAF sensor, also I noticed arcing on the plug wires, after all the tune up components were replaced a... Trouble codes: 15 (o2 sensor lean) |
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| 1993 Ford Probe 2.5L Poor Idle Quality Hello you fine people out here. I need some of those Ford techs on this one. Here it goes, This Probe was at another garage for an engine replacement OK ( everything was good after that ) for a few weeks. Then it suddenely died on him on the highway. Tow it in... |
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| 1995 Ford Explorer XL 4.0L dome lamps VIN: 1FMDU34X95 Thanks in advance for your help.The dome lamps on this vehicle will stay on at random.You can open and close one door and the lights will stay on. Then you go to another door, open and close it and the lights go out. Happens intermittantly. Cannot pinpoint to ... |
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| 1996 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L Hesitation, Stall VIN: 2FMDA5149T Hi there everyone I am having a really hard time with this vehicle. It was in for a coolant leak, I replaced the timing cover gaskets and the timing chain as well due to wear. The customer returned the van with a stall and hesitation complatint. It feels like ... |
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| 1998 Ford Mustang 4.6L No Start VIN: 1FAFP24X7W First please note build date of 10/98. Vehicle titled and vin verifies 1998. Tow in, no start, no power to fuel pump. Checked Alldata for diagrams. Can find no location for the fuel pump fuse. Underhood fuse box diagram available from Alldata is incorrect. ... |
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| 2000 Ford Windstar LX 3.8L Speedo VIN: 2FMZA5146Y We have this Winstar that is giving us fits. The customer complained of an ABS light and OD light on and an erratic speedo. Test drive showed these symptoms. The speedo will fluctuate between 40 and 80 mph while going steady down the road. We tested the Output... |
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| 1992 Mercury Capri 1.6L No Start VIN: 6MPCT01Z2N Good afternoon group. I have a 92 mercury capri with the mazda 323 engine. It is at a friends shop and i am trying to help him out. It has no spark at the plugs. Apparently since this is a somewhat unique vehicle the customer has several spare parts and they h... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1988 Ford F-250 Custom 5.8L Do not know VIN: 2FTHF25H8J First of all, thanks to EVERYONE who replied to our help request. We have worked on this truck as time has permitted, its an old 'wood cutter' that has set around a farm for years. So far, we have found several broken and corroded wires which have been repaire... |
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| 1996 Ford E-250 Econoline 4.9L Excessive Emissions, Hesitation, Lack of Power, VIN: 1FTFE24Y3T I received 4 replies to this. One was a duplication. Thanks to the three members who took the time to respond to me. The last responce was to look for water damage. None was found. The fix for this vehicle was to replace the PCM. We talked to the folks at Hico... |
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| 1996 Ford F-350 XL 7.3L No Start, Long crank VIN: 1FTJW36F4T The Ford is gone. I would like to thank Mark, Stu, David, Charles, and John for their help. It turned out that I was looking for something too hard, and ignoring the easy. I didn't change the oil and I didn't drive it long enough to purge all the air. A little... |
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| 1997 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L Hesitation, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 2FMDA5141V Apparantly I am just about the only tech who didn't know about this chronic problem. The EGR ports were clogged on all cylinders except #1. Under throttle and warm, the EGR was activated and causing a super lean condition only to #1, resulting in a misfire. Pu... Trouble codes: P0301 (Cylinder 1 misfire detected.). |
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| 1992 Mercury Grand Marquis LS 4.6L No Start VIN: 2MECM75W2N Thanks to all. An open connection in the wire from the EEC fuse link to power relay was identified. Further tracing will be required to find the connection however a bypass would correct it. We are waiting for approval from the customer. Thanks for your help a... |
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