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| 1989 Ford F-350 Custom 7.3L Oil Pressure gauge VIN: 2FDLF47M9K Mechanical oil pressure OK-30 psi @ warm idle. Gauge reads at bottom of normal range when pressure is 30 psi. Will drop into unsafe range & turn on engine lamp at hot idle when pressure is above 12psi. With wire to sender grounded, gauge will only go to center... |
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| 1991 Ford E-150 Econoline Custom 5.8L power loss VIN: 1FDEE14H4M I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING AS YOU CAN SEE, BUT I STILL LACK POWER ON ACCELLERATION NOT MUCH ABOUT 30% IT'S SOUNDS LIKE IT'S ROURING AT THE INTAKE, EITHER STARVING FOR AIR OR FUEL, IF I PUT A TRAILER BEHIND IT. IT'S TERRIBLE ACTS LIKE A 6 CYL. FED UP ANY HELP WOUL... |
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| 1991 Ford Explorer XL 4.0L low power VIN: 1FMDU33343 Vehicle came in with 60 psi fuel pressure. Replaced regulator and fuel is now in spec. Engine will not rev in shop-goes to about 3000 and flattens out. On a test drive 2500 is max even downhill. I've checked backpressure-1 psi. Then took y pipe down-no better.... |
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| 1994 Ford Ranger STX 4.0L Hesitation, Surge, Misfire VIN: 1FTCR15X3R this vehicle has been to 4 shops then sent to me when wet outside vehicle runs bad for a couple minutes no codes I spray it down with water runs ok not enough time to scope it if anybody ran into this problem it would greatly be appriched |
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| 1995 Ford F-250 XL 5.8L #1 intake rocker noise VIN: 2FTHF26H7S Ran out of room on the testing and results so here is the rest. Suspest bad new lifter, when replacing #1 intake lifter again, inspect cam lobe, no damage, measure cam lift compared to other intake lobes, same. Test value spring tension, well within spec. W... |
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| 1996 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 2FMDA5141T This Vehicle is loosing injector pulse at # 4 injector during misrire. The mis occurs under load & will idle just fine.I have tested with lab scope to verify that the PCM is not pulsing the ground side. During the mis, The inj. wave form disappears and shows b... Trouble codes: P0304 (Misfire detected on 4 cylinder) |
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| 1996 Ford Crown Victoria 4.6L No Start VIN: 2FALP71W1T hello all This car came to us with a no start condition. We scanned car and noticed that there was no signal on RPM while cranking and no spark at plug wire. We replaced the crank sensor and upon next attempt at starting the check engine light flickers and all... Trouble codes: P1270 |
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| 1998 Ford E-350 Econoline Club Wagon Custom 7.3L Hesitation, Surge VIN: 1FTSE34F8W i have this van that intermittantly will bog down and lack power while cruising and on accell slightly, sounds as if exhaust gets restricted then clears out, on & off a couple of times and then clears up, got codes p0476 (exhaust control valve performance, p16... Trouble codes: P0476 (exhaust contrl valve performance), P1670 (ef signal not detected) |
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| 1998 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L Valve body Rebuiding Windstar for a second vehicle for my own family(wife).Overhauled transmission and installed with below repairs done to valve body from outside supplier.Vehicle had no torque lockup and set TCC performance codes.Removed valve body and found valving st... |
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| 1999 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer 5.4L Alt. VIN: 1FMPU18L2X Hello fellow techs,The truck I am working on is a TV remote broadcast vehicle. The problem it came in for was a noisy alt caused by a bad front bearing. The charging system is a positive ground with remote batteries.Changed the alt. with a reman. The problem I... |
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| 2000 Ford Expedition XLT 5.4L 4 wheel drive VIN: 1FMPU16L3Y hello group this customer complains that while driving low speeds 5-10 mph and while turning the wheel either right or left it feels like the 4 wheel drive will lock in i have not seen the vehicle yet just wondering if anyone has experienced this before and ho... |
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| 2001 Ford E-450 Econoline Super Duty Custom 7.3L wheel/rim VIN: 1FDXE45F01 Just looking to see if any one has had a related problem. Bus is a E 450. Small school bus that the rear dual rims loosened off after 7,000kms [4500 miles]. Driver did not notice, studs were wrecked and rims. They are looking for warrenty. They were rechecked ... |
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| 2001 Ford E-150 Econoline 4.2L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTRE14291 Hope everyone out there has plenty of work. Our shop has a 2001 ford E150 with a 4.2l that has a code 1406. We have serviced many work vans for air express with same code and fixed them with small dpfe sensors. The last ones we fixed we also replaced egr solen... Trouble codes: P1406 |
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| 2001 Ford Explorer Sport 4.0L Poor Idle Quality, Surge, Stall, COLD ONLY. BELOW 70 VIN: 1FMYU60E11 Hi guys, This ones a stumper. Replaced timing chain and cam tensioners for cold rattle. Set cam timing with otc tool kit. Ran fine till temp droped below 70 deg. (Florida Keys, avg temp 78 deg) Now we get a rough idle, surge, occasionally stalls for 1st 15 s... Trouble codes: P0171 |
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| 2001 Ford E-150 Econoline 5.4L Poor Idle Quality, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 1FTSE34L5T tHIS VAN RUNS POORLY,JERKS AND IDLES ROUGH..NO TROUBLE CODES FOUND AND THE VAN IS CONSUMING GAS AT A HIGH RATE. AFTER SCANNING I FOUND THE FUEL STATUS ON BANK2 WAS SHOWING DISABLED AND THE LONG TERM FT BANK 2 IS SHOWING -25% |
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| 2001 Ford F-350 Super Duty Lariat 6.8L Blower Motor VIN: 1FTSW31S51 We have a 2001 ford f350 super duty V10 came in with the blower motor running with the key off. will stop if you remove #15 fuse to Gem Module. when you plug it back in heater stays off until you start the truck and move it. then when you shut it off it runs a... |
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| 1997 Mercury Sable LS 3.0L No Start, THEFT FLASHING VIN: 1MELM53S5V Car arrived from body shop. Car ran before air bag was replaced but not after. Theft light flashing. Has memory code b1600-pats key sig. not recieved & KOEO code b1681- pats transiever signal not recieved. Have replaced the transiever (in the coloumn) and then... Trouble codes: B1681 (PATS transiever signal no recieved), B1600 |
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Fixes & Summaries for Ford
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| 1987 Ford F-150 Custom 4.9L No Start VIN: 1FTDF15Y2H It turned out to be the PCM. I got lucky. The local boneyard had a used one and it fixed it. While the truck was running I would intermittantly lose a reference signal and then get it back without touching anything. Thanks for all the replies. I got some detai... Trouble codes: 21 (ECT out of range). |
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| 1994 Ford E-250 Econoline 5.8L ccd hick-up VIN: 1FDHE24HA2 Sorry for the delay but customer said it is perfect now after a few weeks. We knew there had to be something interfering with an input (RFI)to cause the spout to misfire!! We literally had a dual trace scope on record monitoring the spout square wave and each ... |
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| 1997 Ford Ranger XLT 4.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTCR11X5V Hello everyone, I got this truck fixed a couple of days ago and have not heard back so I assume it's ok. I replace the vent valve and sensor assy. and I suspect the valve had an intermittent fault. Thanks to Joe from N.C. and Jason from Califonia as this w... Trouble codes: P1443 (CANP Valve fault). |
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| 1998 Ford F-150 XL 4.2L Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 1FTZF1720W First of all I would like to thank Jaime [...] personally. He offered to stop by the shop to give a helping hand as he is in my local area. Although we have not been able to get the customer to bring his vehical back in for further diagnosis, we should be ab... |
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| 1998 Ford E-250 Econoline 5.4L Starting VIN: 1FTNS24L3W I had a couple of good replies but not fixed yet,have not had the time or the mind set to get the van pushed back into the shop. i finally found a broken pin in the gray bulk plug that connects the eng harness to the main wiring harness. i jumped the wire arou... |
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| 1999 Ford Windstar SEL 3.8L Surge VIN: 2FMDA534XX Once again iatn comes to the rescue. I would like to thank all six that have replied to my request: John [...]. All the information was helpful. The power steering will switch from low to ... |
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| 2000 Ford F-250 Super Duty Lariat 7.3L horn VIN: 1FTNW20F1Y Thanks to all who replied and I say hello to Mark, I'm back at Skeeters. We went right to the fuse block and sure enough water has been getting in. Again, thanks to all. |
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| 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis GS 5.0L dist. drive gear VIN: 2MEBM74F3H thanks for all the replies, 6 in all. it seems this is a mystery to most techs out there and could cause some problems. 1 person Gerald [...] was able to provide helpfull information. from my research I found that some 85 models, non tbi, and 86 and up hav... |
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