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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1987 Ford Ranger Custom 2.9L No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 47CC10E10W VEHICLE WAS BROUGHT TO ME NO START NO RUN. FOUND VEHICLE OUT OF GAS .PUT GAS IN VEHICLE VEHICLE BARELY STARTS AND RUNS IDLES VERY POOR. TRIED HOOKING UP SNAPON SCANNER DLC APPEARS NOT TO WORK. FOUND FUSABLE LINK MELTED IN ENGINE COMPARTMENT ON DRIVER SIDE UNDE... |
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| 1990 Ford E-350 Econoline Club Wagon Custom 7.5L guages VIN: 1FDKE30G8L Hey guys, I have a ford motor home here that came in with a compaint of the guages reading low intermitantly. It is equiped with a fuel guage, oil press. guage, temp guage, amp guage and a speedo. The problem is that the fuel, oil, and temp guage will all drop... |
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| 1994 Ford F-250 XL 7.3L Lacks power VIN: 1FTHX26KXR Hello everyone, I would like to see if anyone has experienced any similiar to the one on this diesel. On the first occurance several months ago it ran fine until stopped at a light, then would not accelerate much off of idle for a period of about 2 minutes the... |
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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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| 1997 Ford E-150 Econoline 5.4L flaching code 19 VIN: 1FMEEE11L6 hey ya'll got a 1997 e 150 van srs lamp flashing code 19 . scan tool read's a code b1941 test front impact sensor was/nt sure if it fit into spec's of less than 779 ohm's and more than 795 ohm's. actual ohm's 785 on front sensor checked front sensor wiring to ... |
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| 1998 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L c1165 rr sensor VIN: 2FMDA514XW Hello how are you all today.. This van came in with a c1165 & c1144 codes.. Cleared out codes with NGS scantool; and test drove.. Come to a stop idle and abs light come on; no codes, self test on scantool no codes passed.. Take off abs light out and back on; t... |
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| 1998 Ford Windstar 3.8L No Start, Hesitation, Cuts out VIN: 2FTZA5449W this vehicle has a bad hesitation from idle speed,can stall engine by power braking & letting off gas.by turning the cam synch assy.clockwise about 30 degrees the hesitation goes away.but when i recheck with lab scope the cam signal is off by around 60 degrees... Trouble codes: P0340 |
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| 1999 Ford Taurus LX 3.0L coil springs VIN: 1F1FP52U2X of a fleet of 54 taurses 96-01, I have 15 99 taurses. of these 15, 7 have had broken left front coil springs. It's only the left which breaks, some while driving and some while being parked. we do a wheel alignment every 16000 miles. these vehicles are used fo... |
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| 1999 Ford Windstar 3.0L Cuts out VIN: 2FMZA51U4X Ford Tech's, tell me what I'm Missing. This windstar van came in the customer thinking it had a trans problem. Road tested, under normal conditions it runs great. If you put the pedal to the metal (like getting on the freeway) it will cut out, very violently a... |
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| 2000 Ford Mustang 3.8L Surge VIN: 1FAFP4043Y Greetings Techs, Ford Mustang came in with a surge in drive or reverse with the a/c on. My initial impression was watching the a/c clutch cycle fast. Ok. low on refridgerant. Charged it up and checked for leaks. Now it doesn't surge with such frequency, but w... |
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| 2000 Ford F-350 Super Duty XL 6.8L Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1FDWF37Z2Y need a little help on this one. vehicle runs great on gasoline but when switched to propane misses at idle. i do not have a lot of experence on lpg system. scope checked vehicle cant find problem no codes no misfire data vacuum leak not present. i am wondering... |
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| 1981 Lincoln Mark VI 5.0L No Start, Stall VIN: 1MRBP6F9BY we recieved vehicle with list of all that had been done previous to coming to us.first off it would not start,gave it a little squirt of carb cleaner to determine if it was fuel or spark.it started right up then died.so we checked our fuel pressure @ 40 psi ch... |
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| 1996 Lincoln Town Car Anniversary 4.6L No Start, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1LNLM82WXT the car came in a no start condition with the check engine light flashing and the relay buzzing.checked for codes scanner could not communicate with the ecm.checked grounds all are ok.chexked voltage at the tps it was within specs.any help would be appreciated... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1992 Ford Escort LX 1.9L mounts? VIN: 3FAPP15J8N Thanks for all the replies. The customer decided to decline any repairs on this for the fact that it was a mere comfort issue, and there are no drivability issues with it. Many people suggested new mounts, and Ford has a TSB out for this issue (95-12-4). The T... |
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| 1995 Ford Windstar 3.8L No Start, Misfire Hi guys , sorry it took a little while to reply but its been busy. Anyway finally I got this van going and the problem was in the cam sensor. Replaced it with a new one and installed it at the right timing and way you go!. By the way theres a special syncroniz... |
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| 1996 Ford Contour GL 2.0L Cuts out, MIL Lamp on VIN: SALTY1245X I replaced the DPFE sensor.I then 'real timed' data stream and saw the voltage change within the parameters it was supposed to.It has been two weeks and customer has not called and I think he would if light came back on. Trouble codes: 402 (excessive egr flow). |
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| 1996 Ford E-250 Econoline XL 4.9L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTHE24YXT First of all, thank you Tim from Florida! He hit the nail,on the head. It turned out to be contaminated oxygen sensors. The upstream O2 sensors switch ratio would sometimes fail or pass in Mode $06. They would be border line either way. Once I replaced the O2'... Trouble codes: P0133 (Bank 1 upstream O2 sensor slow to respond), P0153 (Bank 2 upstream O2 sensor slow to respond). |
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| 1997 Ford F-350 XL 7.3L loss of power VIN: 1FTJW36F3V Howdy, I think we have this one fixed, its been two weeks and no problems. We got a lot of responses about the ipr valve but we had already been there and replaced the o-rings, also alot mentioned the cmp, again we had already replaced that. What I think happe... Trouble codes: P0344, P1211. |
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| 1997 Ford F-150 4.2L turn signals VIN: 2FTDXO728Y wiring in rear of truck was tapped into at a local u haul dealer thanks to all who replyed |
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| 1997 Ford Crown Victoria LX 4.6L MIL Lamp on VIN: 2FALP74W3V Thankyou all that recommended OE cats. I have got the exhuast shop, dealer and myself on a plan to replace these cats at a very reasonable price, (a little break from all three). The customer has to plan the repair and I asm sure his problem will be fixed. |
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| 1998 Ford Explorer Sport 4.0L punp,rack& lines VIN: 1FMYU24E2W thank uou to all the gentelman who responded to my post. Six in all and I belive you were all on the mark with air in the system. Our customer was reluctant to explore any other posible diagnosis however and decides to live with his noise. thanks again for you... |
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| 1998 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer 4.6L a4wd VIN: 1FMRU18W2W sorry about the delay in closing this post, I am sure that i closed it from work but i guess the mail got lost or something... Anyway I pulled out the transfer and split the case to find that the clutches were all worn out and the lining was totally missing fr... |
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| 1998 Ford Windstar 3.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 2FMDA51UXW i printed all the pages for a code 446 (although 446 was never mentioned in the diagnostic tree). instead of doing all the steps i checked the solenoids i could find. the one at the middle of the windstar, by the canister is the pressure solenoid and is normal... Trouble codes: 446 (evaporative emission). |
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| 1999 Ford F-350 Super Duty Lariat 7.3L rotors VIN: 1FTSW31F0X Thanks to all the advice we recieved, we installed FOMOCO pads and realized that we installed new Motorcraft rotors last time. I think the problem this time with the rotors was a bad spot on the inside of both rotors...had a low spot in surface. Turned them bo... |
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| 2001 Ford Excursion XLT 6.8L 1-2 shift VIN: SALTY1245Y I had manny replies about the oneway clutch,and that there was an updated part available.This is what I found to be the problem.I feel much more comfortable going into an automatic transmission knowing what to look for. |
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| 2001 Ford E-150 Econoline 4.2L Hesitation, Cuts out, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTRE14201 Hello all As all of you pretty much hit this one on the head, the EGR passages were plugged up in all holes except # 3 cylinder causing all EGR to be passed into the one cylinder and causing engine miss. Cleaning this fixed this problem. Believe it or not , si... Trouble codes: P0303 (Misfire 3 cyl detected). |
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| 1998 Mercury Mountaineer 4.0L engine VIN: 4M2ZU54E3W Hello all We opted as many of you had suggested to take this to dealer for recall. Our dealer told us the noise was coming from the jackshaft chain and sprockets and was not covered by recall or warranty. After thinking for a moment car was brought back home a... |
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