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1987 Ford F-250 Custom 4.9L Mechanical VIN: 1FTHF25Y2H
I need to check valve adjustment but don't have tool to bleed down lifters. Is there a way to do it without tool?
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1999 Ford Taurus SE 3.0L battery VIN: 1FAFP53U6X
Hi all. I have a 99 Taurus in the shop here. I will say I'm not at all familiar with these cars. (most of my work is Volvo) The customer brought the car in a couple weeks ago. The battery had been dead and needed to be jumped before they brought it in. Tested ...
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2002 Ford Explorer Sport Trac XL 4.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FMZU77E72
Hi, have 02 sport trac with p0171 and p0174. Replaced intake gaskets, spark plugs and wires, has new pcv hose, new maf sensor, and new fuel filter. Both bank ltft's go to 20% at idle, stft stay at -3 to 3% at idle. If engine rpm is held up we get same readings... Trouble codes: P0171 (Lean bank 1), P0174 (Lean bank 2)
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2005 Ford F-150 FX4 5.4L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Stall VIN: 1FTPX14525
Vehicle originally came in with codes listed above.(P171,174,2196,2198) Found O2's stuck at 900+. Cleaned MAF first, got better Bank1 started switching bank2 got better but not switching. Replace MAF, both O2's switching nicely, vehicle ran good. Multiple road...
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2011 Ford F-150 XL 5.0L cooling fan VIN: 1FTFW1EFXB
Strange one here. The cooling fans will come on full blast as if its hot after about 2-10 minutes of driving, before the vehicle is even at running temp. Sometimes they run at full blast all day, sometimes they'll do it for 15 min and then operate normally. Do...
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1995 Ford F-350 XL 7.5L No Start VIN: 2FTHF36G1S
Thanks for all the help guys it ended up being the map sensor funny i bought a new one from napa and did not work took one of another truck and ran fine so took the one back to napa and got another new one
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2013 Ford F-150 FX4 3.5L Pressure in Radiator VIN: 1FTFW1ET1D
Well Reno from Colorado held the clue. It was the water pump. They have a plastic propeller on the water pump which was cracked at the shaft were it pressed on. An I am not sure how it changed my combustion leak detection dye colors but I wonder if it is somet...
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