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| 1982 Ford F-150 Custom 5.8L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Surge VIN: 1FTDF14G3C Hello everyone and thanks in advance for any assistance offered on this old girl. I have this 82 F150 in and it just runs poorly at idle and the catalytic convertor was waisted on it. The fuel mixtures are obviously off. This had the variable venturi original... |
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| 1993 Ford Escort LX 1.9L No Start, Surge, Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FAPP14J5P mil light does not come when ignition switch is turned on before attempting to start the car car will not start when mil light comes on with ignition the car starts only recent work was rad replacement but could not locate any pinched wires |
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| 1993 Ford F-150 XL 5.0L pings VIN: 1FTEX14N6P I have a 1993 F-150 4X4 in the shop that is giving me some trouble. When driving, when it shifts into high gear it starts to ping real bad. I checked timing and it is right on. The timing changes when plugging and unplugging the spout and with spout reconnecte... |
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| 1994 Ford Escort LX 1.9L speedo cable VIN: 1FARP11J8R Ford Techs, this car had a clutch put in it at another shop & right after that oil started dripping on my friends shoes. it is coming out of the speedometer cable at the speedometer head & running down until it drips off duct work or panel near pedals. I found... |
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| 1995 Ford F-350 XL 7.5L Rattle Noise from Trans Area VIN: 1FTJW36G9S I have a 1995 Ford F350 with a 7.5L gas engine and an E4OD Trans. Since I have replace the trans with a Ford reman I started getting a rattling noise at 1000-1500 rpm in Park & Neutral, it will also do it in Rev,Drive,2nd,1st but only while driving at a light ... |
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| 2000 Ford Mustang GT 4.6L No Start, Stall, Misfire VIN: 1FAFP45X6Y car starts fine most of the time,but sometimes it will start and stall,sometimes it will keep runing but will backfire&acts like it is running out of gas or out of time,turn key off and try again starts fine.scope cam sensor no signal when acting up, unplug se... |
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| 2000 Ford E-250 Econoline 5.4L no power has no power like a plugged fuel filter. most data is normal except it has 14%-20% load showing up at idle & the timing advance shows 20-25 degrees btdc, but when accelerating the timing goes toward 0 degrees btdc & sometimes the scanner will say give me a 5 d... Trouble codes: P0172 (rich bank 1 computer could could not lean out), P1605 (dlc meep alive memory 12v batt. supply problem) |
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| 1984 Lincoln Mark VII 5.0L Digital dash VIN: 1MRBP98F5E Hello All Well it seems we don't have info to help us diagnose this problem but what I have is a digital dash that wont lite up. Just wondering what information someone might have on what to check for this problem. Thanks Jay |
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| 1999 Lincoln Town Car Cartier 4.6L No Start VIN: 1LNHM83W4X car will not start,has spark & inj. pulse, no fuel pressure, no power to pump, no ground signal at relay from ecm(runs if bypassed), car originally had intermittent no start & theft wiring repaired, no visible theft light koeo or cranking, customer stated a/c ... Trouble codes: 1318 (low voltage module customer ran battery down possible cause of this), 2013 (compass) |
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| 1996 Mercury Grand Marquis GS 4.6L Pings VIN: 2MEFM75W6W Can anyone tell me where to find the octane adjust plug on this car? MOD says it is on the left side of the engine bay, but give us no more information, and I can't find anyone locally who can point me in the right direction. |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1992 Ford E-350 Econoline 7.3L ball joint VIN: 1FDK630A1R Hi Folks Thankyou all 24 respondants to my help request. As you all said the job is straightforward just had to dig out the correct size bits of tube to enable the joints to be pressed out etc. thanks to all. |
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| 1993 Ford F-350 XL 7.3L master cyl. VIN: 2FTJW35M3P Thanks to all who sent replys, special thanks to Gerard [...] for the part # for a cyl. that was a direct bolt on. 1/8 inch bigger bore firmed the pedal nicely. raybestos #390339 c quest #e151343 no speed control. |
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| 1997 Ford F-150 Lariat 4.6L 4x4 VIN: 2FTDX18W7V I got 7 replies to my request, but customer hasn't brought the truck back yet, keeps getting called to work way up north, so if I get it back, will post the fix then. But the replies said to change out from auto hubs, to aftermarket manual hubs, which I can ag... |
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| 1998 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer 5.4L Stall VIN: 1FMPU18L7W Thanks to all who replied. This one beat me up. After removing the trans pan we discovered the filter had indeed fallen into the pan. This caused no other symptoms beyond the stalling. Thanks again. |
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| 1998 Ford Ranger Splash 4.0L Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out VIN: 1FTZR15X5W best replies were to disconnect maf sensor and drive to see if symptom goes away (which i had already done), and to test for exhaust restriction.fuel volume and pressure were ok, as i had driven this one and experienced the problem w/ no change in pressure.unf... |
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| 2000 Ford Expedition XLT 5.4L 4 wheel drive VIN: 1FMPU16L3Y the customer declined repairs thanks to nick [...] for detailed info on how the system worked |
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| 2001 Ford F-350 Super Duty Lariat 6.8L Blower Motor VIN: 1FTSW31S51 Thanks to all who responded, we could not see or find any evidence of water getting into the GEM Module. We replaced the module and fixed the problem. IATN is the best. Keep up the good work |
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| 2001 Ford Windstar SE Sport 3.8L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out, Misfire VIN: 2FMZA574X1 thanks for taking the time to try and help. we did get some help from this post but this van was a disaster. i know this is gonna be kinda long...we started with the basics. charging system good. installed b.o.b. and checked power and ground...all good. fuel p... |
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