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| 1990 Ford Aerostar 3.0L convertor VIN: 1FTCA14UXL This van was towed into shop. Customer concern was the engine died everytime that the gear selector was shifted into reverse or drive. When I began my diagnosis, concern was gone. The vehicle shifted normally during test drive. Fluid level alright. There are n... |
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| 1994 Ford F-150 XL 4.9L Excessive Emissions VIN: 1FTEF14Y2R This thing is failing the emissions test for CO and HC. Hot, idle it runs at 9-10% and 1900ppm HC. When first started, computer tries to lean it out, but never gets below 3.5% CO. Watching pulse width it runs down to 5.3 ms before the computer gives up and goe... Trouble codes: 173 (HO2S indicates rich) |
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| 1994 Ford Mustang GT 5.0L KeyFob VIN: 1FALP45T4R Keyfob programming nightmare! Lost the customers orignal keyfob; procured what should be a suitable replacement from Ford (first one sent was for factory-installed system; one now is for dealer installed system... keyless entry system (KES)is genuine Ford, but... |
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| 1994 Ford E-150 Econoline 5.8L Engine VIN: 1FDEE14H3R Customer just bought this customized E150 about 2 wks ago. Seller told him it just neede a good tune up. Engine has a skip like a cracked plug or bad wire when idling. Found all new ignition when we got in the dog house. Replaced everything with another new se... |
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| 1995 Ford Explorer XL 4.0L windows VIN: IFMDU34X5S Electric windows don't work sometimes. If the 4 wheel drive light starts flashing the windows won't work. When it stops flashing and you wait a while the windows will work. Then you will be riding along and the 4WD light will flash and you know the windows won... |
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| 1996 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L disappearing coolant VIN: 2FMDA5145T I teach at a community college Atech program, so Murphy's law applies BIGTIME to our student's repairs. Nonetheless, I haven't found anything (yet) that wasn't done right. Windstar came in with blown head gasket, water in #4 cyl. We replaced head gaskets and s... |
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| 1997 Ford E-250 Econoline XL 4.2L No Start VIN: 1FTHS242XV installed used engine, changed intake,plunum, harness, and all sensors. changed crank pulley. engine will not start-injectors are at 125-174ms cranking. will go into clear flood- 0ms wot cranking. checked all grounds,fuel,spark. using snap-on scaner and have a... |
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| 1998 Ford Contour GL 2.5L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FAFP65L9W Hello All, Got a 98 Contour with an EGR system problem. Vehicle runs fine hot or cold. Check engine light on was original complaint. So after breaking out the red brick we got a code 1131, 1408, 0133, 0401, 0402, 1519. Man isn't this looking like fun. Cleare... Trouble codes: P1408 (EGR flow out of self test range) |
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| 2000 Ford Focus LX 2.0L no start VIN: 1FAFP33P5Y Customer states car will shut off going down the road and will not start for 25-30 minutes. All the lites and asserorys go dead. The only thing that comes on is the oil lite dimly. Ford has a SSM to check all the grounds. All the grounds were ok tightened any ... |
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| 2001 Ford F-250 Super Duty Lariat 7.3L No Start, Misfire VIN: 1FTNW21F11 truck is hard starting cold long crank time,has miss cold and is sluggish cold,sometimes will not start.once at running temp runs good still has slight miss,and shows code po269 Trouble codes: P0269 |
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| 2002 Lincoln Town Car Cartier 4.6L Headlamp Vertical Aim VIN: 1LNHM83W32 Hi All, I recently purchased 2 2002 Lincoln Town Cars for my wife and myself. Believe it or not, I bought them over the internet from a Lincoln dealer in Michigan--a thousand miles away from here in NY. They're both great cars except for 1 thing, and it affec... |
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| 1997 Mercury Mystique GS 2.0L No Start VIN: 1MELM65V0V High All. This car came in as a no start. After basic tests were run, we found cam timing out one tooth on the exhaust cam. talking with customer reveilled the timing belt had been replaced last month. We corrected the cam timing and felt we had the car repair... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1992 Ford Tempo GL 2.3L Poor Idle Quality, Cuts out, Stall VIN: 2FAPP36X1N Well, Thanks to all the great help on this network, this one is fixed.I was asked to check the tps & o2. The tps was.9 at idle & would range to 4.5 The o2 would range from .77-.820. I did fail to mention in my eariler posts that I did unplug the iac with no di... Trouble codes: 411 (Cannot Raise RPM Extended Idle), 412 (RPM Out Of Specs). |
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| 1996 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L Hesitation, Stall VIN: 2FMDA5149T As 8 out of 10 of you had replied, the cam sensor was incorrectly indexed in the engine. I had it off by 180 degrees. I was not able to obtain the actual tool from the Ford dealer so I had to do some trial and error to get it right. I find it to still be so od... |
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| 1997 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L radiator fan VIN: 2FMDA5149V Thank you all who replied. Sorry for the long delay in closing this post. Unfortunatly the customer has not returned the van for further diagnosis. We did retest to the point that we know the pcm is turning the fan on but do not know why. Also our Snapon scann... |
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| 1998 Ford Mustang 4.6L No Start VIN: 1FAFP24X7W Well, it's fixed. Unfortunatly everyone was in the same boat as myself. Seems this car is a 'unique' vehicle. One of a few that Ford decided to continue to run after beginning the '99 model. It has some 98 components, some 99 components, and quite a bit of 'in... |
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| 1998 Ford Crown Victoria 4.6L Heater Core VIN: 2FAFP73W5W after numerous block tests that come up with nothing, after adding new grounds to the heater core and to the engine, we finally pulled the heads off the car to find out that the right head was out .60' and the left head was out .20'. We sent the heads out to b... |
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| 2002 Ford Taurus LX 3.0L Starting VIN: 1FAFP55212 We could not get the vehicle to fail again after hooking scope to the cam sensor. I don't know if moving the wires to hook up cable did anything. All the wiring and the plug looked good. Let customer have vehicle to see if it happens again. Sorry for not havin... |
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| 1993 Lincoln Mark VIII 4.6L chain guides VIN: 1LNLM91V7P we ended putting it back together without a anything there that is what the dealer and tech's suggested. |
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| 1999 Lincoln Town Car Cartier 4.6L No Start VIN: 1LNHM83W4X traced wiring from pcm to fuel pump relay, signal wire was broken at relay box, at connector under relay, thanks for other input, everything helps. Trouble codes: 1318 (low voltage module customer ran battery down possible cause of this), 2013 (compass). |
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