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	1989 Ford Mustang 5.0L Poor Idle Quality, MIL Lamp on Need help please with this twin turbo-charged Mustang. Engine itself is bone stock, right down to the throttle body, stamped steel rockers and cam. We are running 36 lb injectors and 255 lph pump, Mass air pipe was sent out and calibrated for these injectors T... Trouble codes: 66 (MAFVAF low circuit ground).	View
	1993 Ford Taurus 3.2L drive belt tensioner customer tried to replace drive belt by moving tensioner with a tire iron and tensioner retaining pin broke off in mounting bracket. tensioner part # is [...]. ford can't get it, neither can napa or carquest. tried all my usual scrap yards - no luck. even...	View
	1997 Ford Taurus 3.0L cmp Hi all: got this Taurus 3.0 that needs a cam position sensor, as it winks out occasionally. Question is, Alldata says a special tool is needed to get it back in position: I was going to just set it on TDC and eyeball it, but Alldata says this will cause proble...	View
	1997 Ford Explorer 5.0L MIL Lamp on greetings to all this came from another repair shop,it has o2 sensor heater fault codes the previous shop did install a new o2 in bank 2sensor 1 to see if the code would go away but it did not.i checked for power going to the heater at the o2 and all is good.i... Trouble codes: PO135 (h02s bank 1 sensor1 heater circuit fault), PO155 (ho2s bank2 sensor 1 heater circuit fault).	View
	1998 Ford Explorer 4.0L Electronic This vehicle came in with a flashing 4wd light both low and 4high.The customer was on his way back form a out of state trip and the lights started flashing. There was no drivability problems. Pulled a code from the gem modual p1850 contact plate b cirit fault....	View
	1998 Ford Windstar 3.8L Fuel leak I have a fuel leak at the pressure connection at the fuel rail. Can anyone tell me where to get a repair kit to repair the connection with. I need a new barbed quick connector to plug into the fuel rail and need to atach it to the hose which is 1/4 " ID and a ...	View
	1999 Ford Taurus 3.0L Starting This car died in front of my shop. Customer asked if I would look at it. I am a TRANNY GUY, but with business the way it has been have been looking to expand somewhat. Scaned and had a P0340? CMP sensor, told customer I would replace sensor and hope for the be...	View
	2000 Ford Ranger 4.0L Poor Fuel Economy Hello Ford guys, we did an engine on this truck about 10k ago. Customer says the fuel economy has gone from 20mpg with old engine to 13mpg, with this one, and he thinks it's getting worse. He says it runs excellent, no check engine light, has no driveability i...	View
	2001 Ford Taurus 3.0L Misfire Thank you all in advance for your comments. This car came in the shop with a misfire code number 2 cylinder. Test ignition and fuel system found plugs are worn replaced plugs made no difference. Further testing includes compression test number two cylinder is... Trouble codes: P0302 (misfire number two cylinder).	View
	2003 Ford Pickup 5.4L Cuts out, Stall, MIL Lamp on tested all grounds and power input on pcm,tested wires to crank sensor the problem iam haveing is that the truck will idle for ever and will stal out after awhile when it is in drive.it will start back up and then dye again. found that the injector close down ... Trouble codes: PO170 (speed output circut sensor), PO301 (1 misfire).	View
	2006 Ford Econoline 4.6L dash cluster and electric windows This is one of my rental vans. Customer states while driving he hit a bump in the road and the dash guages and power windows stopped working. We are missing power to the ign side of the relay under the hood. If you are looking at the relay cube is would be #86...	View
	1999 Mercury Mystique 2.0L No Start ive read the tsb about setting tensioner and followed inst. starts but wont idle held off idle runs poor set and reset timing sewveral times with differnt peopl still wont idle	View
	2002 Mercury Sable 3.0L Left Bank Cylinder Head Well heres a good one for you ford techs out there. The customer complains of excessive ticking from the engine compartment. He also notes only hearing the noise when the engine is fully warmed up. Upon inspection of the vehicle we were able to confirm the noi...	View

Fixes & Summaries for Ford

	Fix/Summary	Answers
	1995 Ford Aspire 1.3L No Start Thanks to everyone who offered help... I'm sure this was a bad coil. Installed used dist...car fired and ran like new. Customer was in a hurry to leave so I did'nt get to run it on the scope to compare patterns. Again, thanks to all who helped. Mike.	8
	1998 Ford Pickup 4.6L EPC Solenoid Thanks for all the help-the fix was a pcm.This code is unique to Ford only & with no problem with the wiring or solenoid-pcm failure was the root cause.Thanks again. Mike	8
	1999 Ford Ranger 3.0L MIL Lamp on THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP,I HAD 19 REPLIES ALL WERE HELPFUL, MATT FROM ONTARIO WAS DEAD ON, I RESET THE K A M WITH MY SCAN TOOL. HAVE ROAD TESTED MANY TIMES, LONG AND SHORT TERM FUEL OK AND NO SERVICE LIGHT.AT TIM [...] OF REPAIR DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT RESETING THE K A M.... Trouble codes: PO171 (lean), PO174 (lean).	19
	2000 Ford Taurus 3.0L Poor Idle Quality, Cuts out, Misfire Well, thank you to all who responded and you were right on the money. Test 53 in mode 6 gave me a misfire cyl 2 so I swapped it to a different cylinder and the miss followed it. New coil and all is well. Thanks again!!	20
	2000 Ford Explorer 4.0L MIL Lamp on i took ed's advice and reset adaptive memory started it up with scanner hooked up and all the o2's were full rich st trim +11 lt trim 0 that made me look harder for a vacumm leak i looked before but i only checked the hoses and the intake it was the egr tube w... Trouble codes: po172 (rich bank1), po175 (rich bank2).	15
	2001 Ford Pickup 6.8L Steering As noted by most this is a common problem on these trucks. The alignment shop that it was at had another one come in for a different problem and they checked it= SAME THING. Advised customer of all of your advise and what alignment shop found and he seemed to ...	13
	2002 Ford Pickup 5.4L programing well i geuss i will call this one fixed . O.K. not really but thanx to the other techs. on this web site I am soooooooooooooo. much closer I actually fired this truck. However i quite right away as some of you geussed pats. thats alright i have in insturme...	8
	2003 Ford Explorer 4.0L reverse sensing system sorry guys, i know its been a while but the custtomer finally brought the truck back. found out the truck was hit in the right rear. went right to the harness at the corner of the fender, connector was smashed. replaced pigtail everything works again. thanks t...	5
	2000 Lincoln LS 3.9L abs RF outer tie rod end has a slight amount of play so we replace with OEM (no aftmkt avail) and we replaced Brake lamp circuit switch on a whim to see if data stream would continue and it seems to have worked. Did not test in between replacement of parts to see...	2
	2001 Mercury Grand Marquis 4.6L won't set monitors Well first off I want to thank all of you who replied to my post, but the award goes to Tom from Jersey. After looking over the mode 6 data I found that bank 1 sensor 2 was just out of it's parameters. I don't know why the PCM wouldn't set a code but it didn't...	4

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