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| 1991 Ford F-250 Custom 7.5L vibration VIN: 2FT3H47384 Please ignore my vin # I am at home and dont have it and I dont think it pertains here anyways. I have a truck in my shop that vibrates at 120+ km's an hour, like a u joint. You can feel it in the hole truck and hear it. Not terabile but not good. If I rev the... |
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| 1993 Ford Crown Victoria LX 4.6L hi beam indicator VIN: 2FALP74WXP Hi folks,got a crown vic with no hi beam indicator,vehicle came in for this problem,also intermittent running lights.I replaced the pigtail at the headlight switch(one terminal was overheated) running lights are fine now but no hi beam indicator yet.I removed ... |
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| 1993 Ford Taurus GL 3.0L abs VIN: 1FALP54YOP Hi all!! Replaced above items and cannot get any fluid to rear brake calipers. I don't have the special tool to have the ABS valves to cycle. I found here to have them activate by spiking the brakes in gravel. Tried it two different times and had the abs act... |
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| 1996 Ford Aerostar XLT 4.0L Surge, Cuts out, Stall VIN: 1FMDA41X6T We have this vehicle in the shop that is giving us fits. (Actually a number of shops between Reno and San Diego). The problem with the vehicle is, at cruise down the road the speedo will fluctuate up and down about 15 - 20 mph. The van will surge and buck viol... |
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| 1997 Ford F-150 4.2L coolant loss VIN: 1FTDF1722V The original problem was a blown engine due to a defective intake gasket. Replaced engine with a rebuilt from Promar. The replacement engine came with 2 sets of intake gaskets.It said use 3mm for 97-1/15/98, 4mm 1/16/98-99.Called rebuider and told to go by the... |
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| 1998 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L MIL Lamp on, hard start VIN: 2FMZA5145W Hello again. Hoping someone might be able to help out here. We have two problems with the Windstar: one being a lean code for bank 1 and the other being an intermittant "trac off" light coming on. The first we thought that it might be and intake air problem li... Trouble codes: P0171 |
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| 1998 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer 5.4L low power, pinging VIN: 1FMFU18L5W Hello Fellow Techs, Need some help on my own Expedition, I am a MBZ Tech and have little domestic experience. The Vehicle pings / detonates all the time, regardless of fuel. I have owned it since new. The power has fallen off too. If I disconnect the battery a... |
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| 2000 Ford F-250 Super Duty Lariat 7.3L 2-3 Shift Harsh VIN: 1FTNW21F8Y This is the Bosses truck and I am looking for some advice on this trans. I dont do alot of transmissions so I am not familiar with this one. It slams into gear from 2nd to 3rd. I have disconnected the trans commander and chip from the truck and still experienc... |
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| 2000 Ford Focus SE 2.0L charge light VIN: 1FAFP34P1Y when car is started light is off,after 30 sec lt comes on dash car is chargeing fine at 14.6 |
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| 2002 Ford E-150 Econoline 5.4L Door Locks VIN: 1FRTUX7896 Got a tricky one here and am not real familiar with GM products, I have a full size van here that at times the doors will unlock but will not lock with the buttons on the door. At times it will work like a dream and you will think it is fine and then you go ba... |
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| 1993 Lincoln Mark VIII 4.6L Air Suspension VIN: 1LNLM91V3P Customer just purchased vehicle. Service Air Suspension message was illuminated in message center, but car was at normal ride height. Customer was driving car back from New Jersey area to Michigan, and at some point ran into some REALLY bad roadway. Heard a lo... |
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| 1993 Lincoln Town Car 4.6L Poor Idle Quality, Stall VIN: 1LNLM81W3P HEY FORD GURUS I need help. WE Have this lincoln that cust complained of a jerking at hwy speeds after we worked on car for a vac leak. We test drove and car would come in and out of lockup when driving around 35-50 mph. my guy scanned puter and no codes but o... |
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| 1997 Lincoln Continental Spinmaker Edition 4.6L electronic steering VIN: 1LNLM97V2V any help with tests,and info on this code would be very nice.i began by pulling a code c1898 and 1318 i cleared the codes and ran the on demand test with a volt meter on the green/yellow wire the voltage never droped below 11 volts.the fuses are good,grounds a... |
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| 2000 Lincoln Town Car 4.6L spark plug threads VIN: 1JNHM82W81 I have recived a bulliten from jasper engines and transmissions saying that the ford 4.6 L engine has a problem withe the plug threads stripping out. I was wondering if there was a special kit that was avaible to repair this problem |
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| 1997 Mercury Sable GS 3.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1MELM5OU9V vehicle came in with cam sensor code (replaced cam sensor & synchronyzer both were completely destroyed) & bank 2 02 heater circuit codes. replaced both bank 2 o2 sensors and now vehicle has codes for heater circuits on all four sensors. any help would be appr... Trouble codes: P0135, P0141, P0155, P0161 |
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| 2001 Mercury Sable LS Premium 3.0L Mechanical VIN: 1MEFM55S41 Just need to know where the pcv valve is |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1990 Ford Ranger S 2.9L Excessive Emissions VIN: 1FTCR10T3L no EGR for this car,low NOX without timing spout connector.?? too much advance or bad PCM ? return car to customer.. Trouble codes: 41 (o2 not switching). |
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| 1994 Ford F-350 XL 7.5L low power VIN: 1FTJW35G6R thank you all for your help and advice, i know the muffler or converter were not the problem, the timing was correct, acutally tried lowering and raising slightly to no avail. unfortunatley the customer come by this afternoon in a new crew cab ford, so i guess... |
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| 1997 Ford Contour 2.5L Cuts out, MIL Lamp on Gentleman, Thank you for taking the time. The car is fixed and gone. I remove the valve, cleaned, but still no response. I did not see any carbon or other junk in it. The IAC valve was bad. I repalced it with a dealer part at $88.00 list price. Very easy to ch... Trouble codes: P0401 (Exhaust Gas Recirculation Flow Insufficient Detected), P0505 (Idle Air Control System). |
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| 1998 Ford F-150 4.6L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTDX1766V Thanks to all who gave me help. we will probably take take it to ford for fix and try to talk school into getting us the tool. David |
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| 1998 Ford F-150 Lariat 4.6L no codes since clear VIN: 1FTZX18W8W I did fail to mention that after cleaning egr ports that it did help the pinging. Most all of you pointed us in the right direction of the maf being the problem. I pulled it off and there was a little kitty hair build up on one of the heated wires, blew it off... |
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| 1999 Ford Taurus SE 3.0L No Start VIN: 1FAFP53U5X well hats off to mark! after trying all the parts listed, we checked the power distribution box & found green corrosion between both metal plates. took apart, cleaned up, & even soldered main power points together to be safe. guess what? - did not help. we the... |
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| 2002 Ford F-350 Super Duty Lariat 7.3L Coast Clutch VIN: 1FTSW31F12 All replies suspected problem internally with coast clutch piston or snap ring. Apparently, the solenoids have been fairly robust. After waiting a couple weeks for customer to bring truck back in, I dropped the trans pan. No debris in pan. Checked solenoid. ... |
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