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1996 Ford Econoline 5.0L Rear Air
Van has front and rear air conditioning. Rear air blower will not blow, checked the 50 amp fuse in the power box under hood, it is good. Front ac blows and cools fine. Unable to locate other fuses or power coneections in rear, but haven't taken trim apart.		 View
1997 Ford Econoline 7.3L coolant resevoir
coolant has dark like substance in resevoir had coolant system flushed no milky substance on oil dip stick no symptoms of blown head gasket coolant look clear for about one week then substance came back what could be the problem and what could be this substanc...		 View
1998 Ford Contour 2.0L fuel guage
Customer complaint is when tank full reads empty, then when driving goes to full and when empty reads3/4. Customer has replaced inst. cluster with known good one and tryed a fuel sender. When we tryed a sender it didn't matter if we reversed wiring. All the fl...		 View
1999 Ford Pickup 5.4L Misfire
Vehicle misfires pretty badly under light load/cruising speed. Spark plugs have been replaced; codes have been cleared; monitors have been run. I cannot get the vehicle to misfire in the shop. So, Ford Techs - requesting the best way to drive vehicle in order ...		 View
2000 Ford Explorer 4.0L MIL Lamp on
fellow members, hope you can give me some direction. this truck keeps setting rich codes. unusual on fords as it is normally lean codes. tried a new fuel pressure regulator, but did not change. no similar posts in archives. no tsbs either. tested for vacuum le... Trouble codes: po172 (bank 1 rich), po175 (bank 2 rich).		 View
2000 Ford Mustang 3.8L Engine
This car came in for presumably an engine missfire but after some inspection I determined it was more of an engine vibration from 1200-2500 rpm in park or neutral. When I power brake the engine in Park or Reverse Vibration goes away... I can still feel the vib...		 View
2003 Ford Crown Victoria 4.6L power assist
power steering assist was good after initial rack change, that was one month ago, two weeks later car came back with hard steering as if no assist was evident.changed rack again thinking was defective, ran good for two days and symptom came back.now three rack...		 View
1997 Mercury Grand Marquis 4.6L Electronic
hi guy i had this car came in blow hot air when a/c panel is on max a/c compressor kick on hi and low read perfect seem like blend door stuck on heat side check power and ground to blend dooor motor are good i remove motor manually move door back and forth eas...		 View
2002 Mercury Cougar 2.5L Misfire, MIL Lamp on
I haven't had to post a request in some time but I have one that is giving me a little trouble and I thought I would pick some brains over the weekend before I dive back into it Monday. This Cougar has an intermittent slight misfire on # 1 cylinder mainly at ... Trouble codes: p0301 (Cylinder 1 Misfire).		 View

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1988 Ford Pickup 5.8L No Start
thanks to all who replied. kirk may have a point with a possible bad ground. michael mentioned the possibility of two different modules although the same module was in before it started to do it. robert had a similar problem with a 93 but it didn't help fix...		 12
1993 Ford Mustang 2.3L Starting
well we replaced the starter and it fixed the problem.i dont completely understand why it would crank fine with the coils disconected i guess it just took the load off without spark.thanks to everyone who responded		 13
1996 Ford Taurus 3.0L Misfire, MIL Lamp on
I received a lot of usfull information but in this case we found that the fuel injector on cyl 1 would stick at certain times causing the misfire. We motor vac the car and now the car has not had a problem in 2 weeks. At this point in time I feel that we hav... Trouble codes: p301 (missfire on cyl 1).		 16
1998 Ford Windstar 3.8L master cylinder
Thanks to all that responded the fix was as was said the ABS control valve system and the dealer did not even find the prblem. Thanks to all the customer also thanks to all that helped us with this...Thanks Randy		 5
2003 Ford Excursion 6.0L Rear a/c air flow
Well, thanks for the help. All replies lead to ductwork in headliner coming loose. After looking again I suspect this is the problem. Duct up to the point where it enters the headliner has very good air flow. Customer does not want to pursue at this time so wi...		 3
2000 Mercury Grand Marquis 4.6L loss of power
I WOULD LIKE TO START BY FIRST THANKING EVERYBODY WHO REPLIED WITH SOME SUGGEST. EVEN THOUGH NOBODY HIT THIS ONE ON THE HEAD I'DE LIKE TO LET EVERYONE KNOW WHAT I WENT THROUGH SO IF SOMEONE IN THE FUTURE SEES THIS POST HOPEFULLY IT WILL HELP THEM. NOW THE CAUS...		 9
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