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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1998 Ford Escort ZX2 Cool Coupe 2.0L timing belt VIN: 3FAFP1138W customer is now having a stumble or slight hesitation when accelerating to pass or gain speed. We also noticed upon acceleration, a humming noise in the timing belt area. Also, the timing belt is walking off the camshaft sprockets. Any suggestions? |
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| 1998 Ford Ranger XL 3.0L Unknown VIN: 1FTYR1408W Please note, this is a rear wheel drive truck with Rear ABS. Since performing the brake job noted above, when coming to a stop, the brakes will "pulse" once or twice under light to moderate brake pedal application as the vehicle slows in the 15-20 mph range. T... |
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| 1998 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation VIN: 2FMZA5142W Problem occurs always and only after a hot soak of approx 5 minutes to 1 hour, and is consistently reproducible. When it occurs, the engine may be difficult or nearly impossible to start. (Customer reports that sometimes she has given up on getting it started,... |
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| 1999 Ford F-350 Super Duty Lariat 7.3L Cuts out, Stall VIN: 1FDWF37F7X i'm posting this for another shop so i apologize for lack of info. truck will intermittantly jerk like key was shut off and then turned back on. it will also die even when cruising at hiway speed. always will restart right up. ford service writer told him to r... |
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| 2000 Ford Focus ZX3 2.0L Excessive Emissions, Hesitation, Cuts out, Misfire VIN: 3FAFP3137Y engine misses on aclaration maf sensor suspect, test fine but unpluged runs better cat temp comes down.it should not run and should set code but doesn`t. when hooked up I can take air intake off t body and car stays running any help would be great also spark p... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1992 Ford F-150 Custom 5.0L No Start, Stall bad grounds added redundent grounds alls well it seems head lights pull more power than a fuel pump. |
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| 1994 Ford Ranger XL 2.3L Misfire VIN: IFTCR14A3R Thanks to everyone that responded to my help request. I am happy to report that the nightmare is finally fixed. After replacing the PCM and re-running the pin-point test, which led me right back to the PCM, we found that the Ignition Control Module randomly lo... Trouble codes: 218 (IDM High or Open). |
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| 1996 Ford Taurus GL 3.0L codeb1941 VIN: 1FALP52UXT i want to thank all the techs for the fast answers i got right away the problem i found was thank full to greg [...] from lindsay ontario canada the left front drivers side inner splash shields the wiring harness i removed the plastic casing trased white ye... |
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| 1998 Ford Taurus LX 3.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FAFP52S7W the owner of the car had to go home and that is over 100 miles away and i talked to them on the phone and they said that the light has not come backed on the only thing the we did was to check the tps and clean the connector and when they come back to town i w... Trouble codes: P1120 (TPS is within self test range but below the closed throttle position range of .17-.49 volts3.43-9.80). |
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| 1999 Ford Taurus LX 3.0L coil springs VIN: 1F1FP52U2X we repaired the vehicle described by replacing the springs with aftermarket springs and havent had a problem since. THANK YOU to all who replied. its nice to know we are not the only shop with this problem, as ford has no logical explaination. |
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| 1999 Ford F-150 4.2L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTZX172OX Thanks for all the replies. The fix was a vacuum leak at the pcv elbow at the intake. The hole wasn't very big, just big enough to cause a lean condition when the customer had the truck, if you know what I mean. Thanks for all of your help. B. [...] Trouble codes: P0171, P0174. |
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| 2000 Ford Explorer Sport 4.0L Excessive Emissions, Poor Fuel Economy, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FMYU60X2Y I went back and rechecked values. It was suggested to me that 1.6v at maf at idle was too high. In the process I cleaned the maf harness connector. The maf dropped to 1v, and I had good fuel control again. The long term and short term fuel trim are moving from... Trouble codes: P0172 (Bank 1 System rich), P0175 (Bank 2 System Rich). |
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| 2000 Ford F-350 Super Duty XL 6.8L Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1FDWF37Z2Y thanks to those who replied to my help request it helped steer me in the right direction. what we found was leaking injector o-rings a leaking compuvalve injector and a loose fuel rail. this vehicle had been to the local dealership before being brought here th... |
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| 2000 Ford Mustang 3.8L Surge VIN: 1FAFP4043Y Well, looks like this one is fixed. After checking and re-checking I decided to go ahead and hook the breakout box up and start checking all input, outputs and grounds thoroughly. Well low and behold it's now idling perfect! Oh great, Ok, take all the readings... |
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| 1989 Mercury Grand Marquis LS 5.0L Starting VIN: 2MEBM75FOK Hello - Just waited a couple of weeks to see if the vehicle would be returned. So far, okay. Received 8 replies, verified all that was suggested, from bad fly wheel to shoulder bolts on starter. What I finally did was to install the correct battery. By the way... |
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| 1997 Mercury Mystique GS 2.0L No Start VIN: 1MELM65V0V Thanks to all that replied. This car ended up having two problems. #1 Cam timing. #2 Customer had not told us that she had over heated the engine 1 week before. Although we had suspitioned a head gasket and had pressure tested the cooling system for 24 hours w... |
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