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| 1965 Ford Mustang 289CID 2-3 shift VIN: 5F08C6E853 The trans. shifts good from 1 to 2. but won't go into 3 until you let off gas & then back on. It immediately goes back to 2, though. It only does this cold for about 5 minutes of driving, then shifts perfectly when warmed up. Before the valve body was rebuilt,... |
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| 1989 Ford F-150 Custom 5.0L High Idle VIN: 1FTDT15N6K Help! This pickup runs great, except occassionally (sometimes once a day, sometimes not for weeks at a time) it will idle at 2500 rpm. Vehicle passes both the KOEO and KOER tests with no codes present. Of course the vehicle has no data avaliable. I feel fair... |
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| 1990 Ford l8000 7.8L oil VIN: 5589565542 truck came in with high oil pressure replaced oil pump no change. |
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| 1992 Ford F-150 Custom 5.0L No Start, Stall when head lights on kills fuel pump help please |
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| 1994 Ford Ranger XL 2.3L Misfire VIN: IFTCR14A3R Hello Fellow Technicians, I have a customer vehicle that was brought in yesturday with a complaint of the car running rough, and black smoke coming out of the exhaust system. So I verified the customers complaint, and started out by running a KOEO and KOER Te... Trouble codes: 218 (IDM High or Open) |
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| 1995 Ford Probe GT 2.5L No Start VIN: 1ZVLT22BOS car was towed into shop car had been sitting for 6 months. when customer first got car it would idle but die as soon as throttle was depressed. car slowly got worse would eventually only start with throttle depressed all the way down. and would not rev up only... |
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| 1997 Ford Ranger XLT 4.0L Hesitation VIN: 1FTCR15X3V We have this Ford Ranger that we did head gaskets on. It had an external coolant leak. We now have a hesitation at around 45 to 60 mph when accelerating. Can be upgrade or downgrade. Have rechecked all connections, tested TPS, MAF sensor. Monitored data with M... |
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| 1998 Ford Contour LX 2.5L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FAFP66L1W Greetings. This Contour had the leaking intake plenum gaskets replaced several months ago. Now instead of a lean code it has rich code for bank 1 and you can see that fuel trim is also being leaned out on bank 2. The code originally set while driving about 28 ... Trouble codes: P0172 |
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| 1998 Ford Contour GL 2.0L Engine noise VIN: 1FAFP6632W Customer said while his son was driving this car it started chattering. He was at school about 90 miles away. The father went down and drove the car back and said other than the noise it ran great. I test drove it and it does run fine. It sound like the lifter... |
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| 1999 Ford F-350 Super Duty Lariat 7.3L Warning Light VIN: 1FTSW31F4X Hello all, Vehicle came in October 03 with no charge, replaced alt with Dixie reman and all was fine till January this year, came back no charge. Replaced alt with Napa reman, lasted till now came in no charge. Load tested batteries and 1 failed. Replaced batt... |
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| 2000 Ford F-550 Super Duty XL 7.3L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire VIN: 1FDAW57FXY Good morning fellow techs. This truck was towed in yesterday barely running. When started, it sounds like it`s on about 4 cyls. My question is about the P0232 code. I pulled the diagnostic info from mitchell and peformed it as far as I could. I am at the point... Trouble codes: P0232 (Fuel pump secondary ciruit high) |
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| 2000 Ford Taurus SE 2-Valve 3.0L 1-2 shift feel VIN: 1FAFP5521Y i overhaul the trans (axod) 1st time i overhaul a ford trans. now 1-2 shift very harsh on up shift ,ok on down shift re ck. line pressures ok .i think the accumulator springs may have been inst wrong,does anyone have an idea what color spring goes were i have... |
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| 1996 Mercury Grand Marquis LS 4.6L catalyst monitor VIN: 2MELM75W4T Vehicle has been driven over 400 miles since code cleared,needs to pass emission test. Check engine light has not come back on,but catalyst monitor is still "not ready". Vehicle has been driven stop and go traffic and highway daily. Why is monitor still not re... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1995 Ford Windstar 3.8L pdfe hoses melt out of 45 replies 44 were right on the money. I did a back pressure test at the o2 sensors and it was off the charts {litterally maxed out) I then dropped the cats and looked, sure enough left one broken up inside and stuck in the neck. So I replaced the unit ... |
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| 1997 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L Misfire VIN: 2FMDA5146V Thanks to all that replied to this problem. I tried most all suggestions. I cleaned the EGR ports, switched injectors, changed coil pack. The van came back with cyl 4 misfire and I decided to pull the head and have it rechecked. It was OK. I did notice this ti... Trouble codes: P0304. |
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| 1997 Ford E-250 Econoline XL 4.2L No Start VIN: 1FTHS242XV Thanks again to all that replyed. I found down streem o2 signal shorted to ground coming out of o2 sensor. must have happend stuffing engine. good news is i still have some hair. |
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| 2000 Ford Taurus SE 4-Valve 3.0L Upper intake plenum VIN: 1FAFP55S4Y Thanks to Nick and Brian- There is a customer notification letter concerning this problem that involves reflashing the PCM to prevent engine from firing spark 180 degrees from fuel causing backfire- We replaced upper intake plenum and car is at local dealer fo... |
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| 2001 Ford Ranger Edge 3.0L Cuts out VIN: 1FTYR14U51 Replaced and set cam sensor drive (synchronizer). Thanks to all who responded with very helpful suggestions. Special thanks to James from Florida who nailed it. We found the drive with a worn bushing, as well as being off by about 20 degrees. It appears to hav... |
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| 1998 Lincoln Navigator 5.4L brake system VIN: 5LMRV27L1W 3 replies to this problem none work thanks to all who took time to email there advise took to dealer and still no fix! |
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| 1992 Mercury Sable LS 3.8L No Start VIN: 1MECM534XN Thanks for all your help.Problem with main control relay assy,found circuit board desolder damage( burnt).Pin out test on the pcm connector showed, that the computer was losing ground when the iginition key is turn on and cranking. Also causing to lose injecto... |
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| 1996 Mercury Grand Marquis LS 4.6L blower motor VIN: 2MELM75W7T I will be getting this car back from the customer to recheck voltages, next week. I have to close this now because of the time limits but I will add a FIX later. (If they don't trade it first) |
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