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Open Help Requests for Ford
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| 1990 Ford E-250 Econoline Custom 5.0L abs light VIN: 1FTFE24H6L ABS light on when car is started . Will not flash codes when the rabs connector is hooked to ground. Checked for power and ground to the rabs module-ok. Anyone run into this before? Thinking it needs a new rabs module, but it's not a cheap guess. Thanks- |
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| 1990 Ford Ranger S 2.9L Excessive Emissions VIN: 1FTCR10T3L any idea what cause the system to run lean and failed dyno test with high nox..? Trouble codes: 41 (o2 not switching) |
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| 1993 Ford Taurus GL 3.8L Mechanical VIN: 1FACP5242P vehicles braking system seem to lock up and stay locked up after driving for approximently 2 days in the city. the vehicle then has to sit for 45 mins to 1 hour in order for the wheels to free up and then the customer is able to drive. after driving the patter... |
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| 1994 Ford Taurus GL 3.8L engine VIN: 1FALP5749R new t-stat, no leaks only overheats on the highway, block test was inconclusive, i feel head problem but service manager disagrees. is there any other test i can try that might give me a positive result?? system holds pressure with presure test at 18 pounds...... |
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| 1994 Ford F-350 XL 7.5L low power VIN: 1FTJW35G6R this truck has very low power when loaded (above 6500lbs trailer weight), spark knock is very severe when acclerating, no spark knock is noticed when not pulling a load, and truck seems to have ok power, but does not run as good as some ive driven. fuel consum... |
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| 1998 Ford F-150 4.6L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTDX1766V My Associate and I replaced the engine in this ford truck. We are a small motorpool at Texas A&M University. We have a lot of nice equipment but we do not have a computer diagnostic scanner available to us. The engine runs fine. real smooth but the check engin... |
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| 1998 Ford Mustang GT 4.6L valve train VIN: IFAFP42XXW Hey Ford techs: heres a good one for you. This customer does drive his car hard but i didn't expect it to reoccur. have you ever seen repeated intake valve failure. 1st time apart #3 intake valve was collasped in hole. sent out head they only replaced bad valv... |
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| 1998 Ford F-150 Lariat 4.6L no codes since clear VIN: 1FTZX18W8W Hello All, We have this 98 truck. It came in with a severe detonation problem. Scanned code and it had PO401 insufficent egr flow so I think this is an easy fix. Pulled the trottle body and sure enough the egr passages stopped competely up. I cleaned them out ... |
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| 2000 Ford Windstar LX 3.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: 2FMZA514XY tsb performed for codes p0174 -- replaced left valve cover replaced isolation bolts and grommets -- replaced upper and lower plenum gaskets -- once warmed up bank 2 o2s run lean we can force them rich by adding propane. rear follows the front so i think 02 are... Trouble codes: P0174 (system lean bank 2) |
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| 2001 Ford F-250 Super Duty Lariat 7.3L 2-3 shift VIN: 1FTNW21F41 this is my brothers truck, in excellent shape has code for 2-3 shift error p0782, seems to go into two gears at once. cant be driven in third or fourth with out seeming to lock up. just started doing this today and has always shifted perfect before. thanks for... |
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| 2001 Mercury Cougar 2.5L Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 1ZWFT61L9Y Hi Guys . This car runs great, on a road test @ 30mph floor it, and it does not have that much acceleration for a V6 . We had the cats pressure tested, fuel trim long & short looks good and HO2S are at .585v 3.1 trim .Her mileage is off by a large margin, and ... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1993 Ford Ranger STX 2.3L No Start VIN: 1FTCR10A6P hey guys thanks again its nice to know that there is a group like this you learn something new every day. the fix lost ign ground orange wire with black tracer at module chased it to a plug on the left front fender well nasty conection clean it no problems tha... |
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| 1997 Ford Explorer XL 4.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FMDU34X9U Hi everyone, most of the replies for this vehicle were about the use of a tool and correct position of sensor. All that was done properly. But a few of you had spoke about other components and that they [...] affect the CMP. I think that is what is happening,but... Trouble codes: P0340. |
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| 1997 Ford Probe 2.0L No Start VIN: 1ZVLT20A6V I could not get it to act up again for us to ck it further. We never were able to get the computer to store or spit out fault codes and the customer was unwilling to persue this issue... I did receive one usefull tidbit from Michael ' take a close look at that... |
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| 1999 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer 5.0L Hesitation, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FMZU32P6X Well I thought noone was answering me but upon closing this post there were 10 responses. But did not recieve any in my e-mail. \ Due too the short time to check out, we found the fuel filter to be almost completely clogged. Changed and cleared codes told cu... Trouble codes: P1151, P0174. |
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| 2000 Ford F-250 Super Duty XL 7.3L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire, idles rough at idle VIN: 1FDNX20F1Y thanks for those who responded..i checked # 3 fuse that powers the dlc and got info from scanner, r & r and cleaned the injectors and replaced all inj. seals and it got more power still got the cold start in the morning but will stop here.. thanks for everyo... Trouble codes: P0541 (intake air heater fault ppt- kl4), P0269 (3 cyl low balance-test), 1274 (1275 1276 injector balance test ---ppt- na 11). |
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| 2000 Ford Focus ZX3 2.0L Stall VIN: 3FAFP3134Y Thanks to all who replied...I sent vehicle to local Ford dealer to have pump replaced, looks like that was the problem.. |
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| 2002 Ford Explorer XLT 4.6L Differential axle seals VIN: 1FMZU73W12 Thanks for the responses guys!! Mathieu/Quebec, Ed/Colorado, Nick/Ohio, Ed/Pennsylvania, Andrew/Utah... Everyone was somewhat correct with this unit.. Seems it's another 'problem child' for Ford, and that they are having 'lets say' a few failures.. Since the... |
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