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1992 Ford Taurus 3.8L No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Stall, long crank
Greetings: Have this taurus giving fits. Intermittant crank no start. Intermittant die at idle (in shop). Fine on test drive. Problem occurs cold or hot. When problem exists no spark nor injector pulse exists. Tried ignition module but still no start. Have not...
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1995 Ford Windstar 3.8L abs module
ABS engages on a non abs stop every time. It doesnt do it until you are almost at a complete stop. It has the springy type noise with a double pedal pulsation, that is normal, when abs kicks in, every time. The car came in on a wrecker with a bad engine, and a...
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1996 Ford Pickup 4.9L MIL Lamp on
Hello All, Looking for some input here. This truck has an MIL on with the 5 codes I listed below. While looking at data with the NGS the B2 fuel trim will max and sit there a little bit then go negative. After that B2 will work it's way up to +15 or 16 and bo... Trouble codes: PO133 (bank 1 sensor 1 slow response), P1131 (bank 1 sensor 1 lean), P1151 (bank 2 sensor 1 lean), PO385 (ckp sens b malf), PO174 (bank 2 lean limit).
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1997 Ford Explorer 4.0L fuel gauge
I have this Explorer while driving the fuel gauge will fluctuate. It will go from half to about three quarters a tank. The gauge tested acurate with gauge tester. We replaced the slosh module which comes with a new fuel/temp gauge. The tank unit was replaced a...
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2001 Ford Expedition 4.6L rear wiper motor
please help. came in for water leak, resealed bottom half and had new windshield install with new moulding on top (missing). also cust complained of radio on and off and rear wiper inop. replaced gem module all works except rear wiper. have power at purp/yello...
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2002 Ford Escape 3.0L egr valve
no engine codes present just runnung rough .i suspect cat convertor or convertors plugged up .but any body seen the egr valve cast iron it self melt up . i consulted near by dealker ship they didnt see the egr melt like this.occasionaly the dpfe melt or the ho...
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2005 Ford Freestar 3.9L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Cuts out, MIL Lamp on
Replaced ECM because of water flooding out ECM (had codes P0715,P0717,P0340,P1270 at that time). Now the engine coolant temp sensor reads 102400 F and the codes listed are hard codes. Checked grey/red common wire to all issue sensors and it is fine. Has anyone... Trouble codes: P1288 (Cyl head temp sensor out of range), P1711 (TFT Sensor out of range), P0603 (Internal control mod Kam error).
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1994 Mercury Cougar 3.8L Hesitation, Cuts out
Vehicle came back this week with 5000 miles on it and what the customer said is the same problem as before. Vehicle has no codes and only has a running issue (Stumbles like a miss) when hot off idle to 1500rpm. Problem does not occur when cold. Check all readi...
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1998 Ford Ranger 4.0L MIL Lamp on, P0171 & P0174
26 out of 26 replies all suggested the intake manifold and/or plenum gaskets. Five techs recommended observing fuel trims while spraying carb spray around suspected manifold gaskets (Pillip, Terry [...], Kenneth and Kevin), two techs recommended studying fre... Trouble codes: P0171 (Air fuel ratio too lean bank 1), P0174 (Air fuel ratio too lean bank 2).
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1999 Ford Explorer 4.0L fuel gauge
sorry took so long to close this, computer system has been down. when we removed the old fuel pump we found that the tray that is made into the bottom of the fuel tank had seperaterd from the bottom of the tank and was smaking the bottom of the fuel pump sendi...
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2000 Ford Pickup 5.4L Misfire
Thanks to all that replied, it was test 53 like all of you said. Thanks again
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2001 Ford Focus 2.0L Flexplate
Well, I certainly appreciate all the help I received, and several of the responses were right on. We found the dowel pins missing. I'm guessing these pins were never present as there is no way both could have fallen out... The new ones are a press fit. We a...
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2001 Ford Pickup 7.3L Stall
Thank you all for your input. Most all responses were c/shaft sensor or IDM module. It turns out the customer got a recall notice the same day I posted this help request.before I could contact him, the truck went to the dealership where they installed a c/shaf...
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2003 Ford Econoline 7.3L Starting
INSTALLED A NEW BATTERY AND ALL SEEMS WELL I HAVENT'T HEARD ANYTHING FROM HIM AT THIS POINT THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP
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1990 Mercury Grand Marquis 5.0L transmission
only needed checkball locations to complete repair.
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