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1956 Ford Victoria 292CID Engine
I am looking for something that I may have overlooked. We R&R'ed the engine for rebuilding a few years ago. The engine now has about 500 miles on it and it is leaving oil puddles wherever it is parked. After the first 100 miles, the car started leaving sizeab...		 View
1987 Ford Bronco II 2.9L 4WD indicator light
The indicator lamp switch at top of transfer case checks OK with ohm meter. It has a two wire connector:1)Black ground 2)Yellow with black trace. Alldata does not show this wiring on diagrams, only the wiring for the 4WD electronic shift...this one is manual s...		 View
1989 Ford LTD Crown Victoria 5.0L Radiator
Car came in for miss. Tech noticed oil seeping from upper hose and excessive oil in overflow. Color is dark and not pink indicating enging oil and not trans fluid. No water in oil. How can oil get into the cooling system on this 5.0 as I have never run into th...		 View
1993 Ford Mustang 2.3L Starting
the car is starting like its out of time ,it bucks and jerks back while cranking. weve replaced the crankshaft sensor and the ignition control module.the customer told us it has been doing this every once in a while but now it does it on every start up.when bo...		 View
1999 Ford Explorer 4.0L Transmission
This one is very strange, I hope someone can help. There is no drive in Reverse ever. If D is selected after R there is no drive but if it is selected after 2 it takes off in 3rd. There is drive in 2 position as normal. The 2 codes were P0731 no 1st gear and P...		 View
2000 Ford Taurus 3.0L MIL Lamp on
Thanks in advance for the help. I first looked at this car about 200 miles ago. The customer had recently aquired this ride from prevoius owner who had been fighting a driveablitiy problem and reoccuring CEL. The car would at random hesitate and stumble and tu... Trouble codes: P0191 (Fuel Rail Pressure RangePerformance).		 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
2001 Ford Windstar 3.8L Exhaust
Hello again guys-here's my tale.Shortly after performing the above service[had recurring lean codes]this van[after sitting overnite]will emit a large blast of blue/oil smoke from the exhaust.It only lasts for about 3 seconds but its quite thick.I read some sim...		 View
2003 Ford Focus 2.0L Brake Lights
Thank you in advance for your help. The problem is that the normal brake light do not work, center high mount does work. If you look at a wiring diag. for focus wagon you will see that CHMSL comes right off brake switch and normal brake lights runs into and ou...		 View
2004 Ford Pickup 6.0L No Start
the truck will not start, checking high pressure oil will only go to 480 psi, unplugged icp, still no start, air checked the high oil circuit good at 100 psi, can make start on wd40 into air cleaner, stop spraying and truck will die Trouble codes: 2291 (icp pressure too low).		 View
2004 Ford Pickup 5.4L Poor Idle Quality, Surge
Engine is missing off of idle. runs fine at idle. scanner shows VCT1 is at 0 off idle and VCT is at 25-40 off idle. Switched VCTs around and the same thing. Please Help.		 View
1997 Lincoln Mark VIII 4.6L ride control
Hey everyone. I have a Mark VIII that I need a little direction on. The customer says that overnight, all four corners leak down and it's laying on the axles. Of course, it sat overnight at our shop and stayed pumped up all night with no sign of lowering at al...		 View
2000 Lincoln LS 3.9L Mechanical
Hi guys, Read this real weird problem, Ford & Licoln house pulling their hair !!!. Customer came in, car runs rear rough (Piece of cake Hu) has codes P0305, P0307 & P0171, I replace all 4 coils (5,6,7 &8), plugs, V/C gasket w/seals on B2 (Driver side), still t...		 View
1994 Mercury Cougar 4.6L electronic shift
first i want to thank anyone that can help me. this car is driving me crazy i will admit im not great with trannys but this car has all power in the world the problem is when you take off and jump on it it revs to around 5500 rpm then shifts hard into 2nd the ...		 View
2000 Mercury Cougar 2.5L LT fuel trim high
Eraced system after all work done- recheck data- find LT fuel trim at idle still at +14 give or take- found Baro sensor reading at 147 Hz- should be 158 Hz for this area- replaced MAF sensor- still reading to high???- any ideals		 View
2000 Mercury Grand Marquis 4.6L loss of power
hello there first time posting, i have a 200 mercury grand marquis. this vehicle came in with the complaint that while driving down the road it losses power. fell just like the cat is plugged. check back pressure ok (checked at dpfe sensor on both hoses). chec...		 View

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1987 Ford Pickup 6.9L clutch
this is going to sound weird but we had to have our roll back going so i made a extention to the push rod to give a little more travel it worked but i think the engine has crank end play thanks to all replies we will see how long it last		 25
1990 Ford Mustang 5.0L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Surge, Poor Fuel Economy
problem comes and go's, its an intermittent problem, I will continue to observe and get more info from this vehicle in the upcoming months. thanks for everybody's help. Trouble codes: 41 (hego sensor ckt indicates lean no hego switching detected), 91 (hego sensor indicates lean front left no hego switching detected).		 13
1995 Ford Thunderbird 4.6L shifting
Sorry for the delay in posting the fix. The vehicle ended up having the shift solenoids shorted together. When the ecm grounds the solenoids to turn them on, because they were shorted together, it turned both of them on causing a start off in 4th gear. I found...		 3
1997 Ford Contour 2.0L high idle
Well, the customer decided to pull the plug on the Contour. The harness insulation was bad near the injectors, and the rest of the wiring was truly a MESS!! All the replies were good- Scott once had a small piece of plastic stuck in the iac valve holding it op...		 9
1999 Ford Windstar 3.8L instrument cluster
thanks for all the replies . we found a mouse infestation in the rear of this vehicle . this is now turning into a insurance issue & will require more time to complete . 		7
1999 Ford Pickup 6.8L coolant loss
I finally got my fleet guys to bring the truck back. Roy from New York had experience with these engines & informed me that yes, they will blow head gaskets. It is a shim-type multi-layer gasket. It didn't so much blow out a chunk as much as seep & corrode the...		 5
2000 Ford Explorer 4.0L abs
The problem with the scanner was the scanner $7000 pos thanks Modis the car dealer took the vehicle 2 for after $100 dollars they said replace both front sensors, they took it back to their own shop and found the ring on the diff was broke, can't expalin the o...		 3
2001 Ford Econoline 4.2L Misfire, MIL Lamp on
Well thanks again,..when everybody mentioned intake/egr ports,.this old brain remembered I had one identical to this,..check our files and sure enough almost 1yr to the day I did the same to its sister van,..and although the egr ports didnt appear that bad,..c... Trouble codes: P0302.		 8
2004 Ford Pickup 5.4L temp
We replaced the control head and the truck hasn't come back..thank you 		6
1989 Merkur Scorpio 2.9L Mechanical
I talked to a trans shop and found out the seal in the front clutch does go out on these.It will require a rebuild so out comes the trans and all will be Ok.We have found a used trans and will have the car done by weeks end Thanks 		2
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