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1994 Ford Ranger 4.0L Mechanical This is my personal vehicle. When I purchased it the A/C
was inoperative and no freon in the system. I had it
charged to diagnose it and 2 days later the freon was gone
from the system. I looked the system over with a UV light
and did not find ANY source of th... |
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1998 Ford Pickup 4.6L ABS module This truck was towed into our shop after the customer who
is on vacation had a problem where the front calipers
locked down and would not release overheating the front
brakes so bad that the plastic lug covers melted off the
truck. because of the heat it melte... |
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1999 Ford Taurus 3.0L Defroster door vacuum control Vacuum control will not hold vacuum to close door and then
direct air flow to vents. Used vacuum pump to apply to
yellow line to vacuum motor/actuator. Can this vacuum
(motor/actuator)control be replaced without removing the
instrument panel to gain access? Th... |
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2000 Ford Focus 2.0L Brake shoe Stupid question;
Which side does the thicker shoe go on for these Focus's?
We did rear brakes on one not too long ago and then it was
somewhere else for something else and some guy told her
they were on backwards.
Im looking at this, and the first thing tha... |
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2000 Ford Ranger 2.5L No Start the vehicle had a 1401 dpfe sensor code my tech repaired
the wires and backprobed one of them with 12v (don't ask
why)and now the car will not start, no spark , no pulse ,
no communication. i think its the ecm and would like any
suggestions before i spend 390.... |
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2000 Ford Taurus 3.0L MIL Lamp on hello all, our taurus has 02 heater circuit codes on all 4
o2s yes all o2s very wierd so we checked all power and
grounds at ecm connector also checked continuity on all o2
wires no problems found we have batt voltage at o2s and at
e.v.r. solenoid. replaced al... Trouble codes: p0135 (02 heater circuit), p0141 (02 heater circuit), p0155 (02 heater circuit), p0161 (02 heater circuit), p1409 (e.g.r. vacuum regulator solenoid circuit), p0460 (fuel level sensor circuit fault). |
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2002 Ford Pickup 7.3L No Start, Cuts out, Stall Hello all. This Power stroke is coming in soon. I have been
talking to the customer alot about this problem but haven't
been able to down truck yet. At first he broke down while
pulling a hill. The engine died instantly without a spit or
a sputter. Cranked goo... Trouble codes: p1000 (OBD monitors not complete). |
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2003 Ford Focus 2.0L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, MIL Lamp on, engine performance This 2003 Ford Focus came in originally with a hesitation
and stumble. Original technician tore down the cylinder
head and sent to a machine shop. There is no reason left by
the previous technician on why the head came off the car.
Recieved the cylinder head b... Trouble codes: P0750 (Shift Solenoid A Circuit Failure). |
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2004 Ford Explorer 4.0L Misfire An explorer came in for a check engine light running rough.
Installed plugs and wires, but it didn't fix the problem.
Looking deeper in IATN found similar cases of misfire where
plugs and wires wasn't a fix. Broken valve springs are also
common. Got and ok to ... Trouble codes: p0306 (Misfire cylinder 6), p0316 (Misfire at start up). |
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2006 Ford Taurus 3.0L epc solenoid this taurus has a code po962 pressure control solenoid a
control circuit low.i have followed diagnostic tree in
mitchell.all test show good.but,in the morning it will set
the code.then it will drive fine the rest of the day.has
anyone seen this code before? i ... |
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2003 Lincoln Town Car 4.6L compressor thanks all for taking time reading this post. I have a 2003
town car came in with no freon.. so I just recharged the
system to specification and then start the car. The
compressor work for about 2 sec then shut off. I checked
and see that there is no ground si... |
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1994 Ford Pickup 4.9L Clutch I want to thank everyone for the replies.I dont do many clutches but for the price it is just as cheap to replace it with a new fly wheel.Thanks again to every one. |
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1995 Ford Explorer 4.0L No Start THANX TO ALL WHO REPLIED, AFTER NUMEROUS MORE TEST WE FOUND THE INJECTORS NOT FIRING, APPARENTLY SOMETHING WAS PROBABLY PUT IN THE GAS AND CAUSED ALL THE INJECTORS TO GO BAD, REPLACING ALL THE INJECTORS AND CLEANING THE FUEL SYSTEM FIXED THE PROBLEM |
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1997 Ford Pickup 4.6L cooling system FIXED! thanks to all who took the time to respond. the leak on this engine oil to coolant was the adaptor that repositions the filter to the back of the engine. The adaptor also attaches to the lower rad hose. the gasket was bad and leaked oil (higher presure)... |
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1998 Ford Taurus 3.0L MIL Lamp on Well, I am going to go ahead and call this vehicle fixed. We released it to our customer nearly two weeks ago and so far, everything is going good. As I stated before in my preliminary summary, the powertrain control module seems to have fixed the problem. ... Trouble codes: P0443 (EVAP control system canister purge valve circuit malfunction), P0455 (EVAP control system leak detected...no purge flow or large leak). |
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1999 Ford Pickup 6.8L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Cuts out, Misfire Well, now I get more information. Seems the previous owner put his own timing chain in it or at least started to about a year ago. The new owner finished putting the front together when he picked it up. After getting into this further I ran a comparison compre... |
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2000 Ford ZX2 2.0L MIL Lamp on Frist Thanks for all that e-mail's. We cover everything (at least twice) except the flywheel being broken. Customer didn't what to pull the engine to find out for sure. One thing for sure these little cars have a lot of reasons why, and problems that can go wi... Trouble codes: PO340 (Camshaft position Sensor circult maiflunction). |
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2000 Ford Expedition 4.6L 1-2-3-n Patrick from Colorado hit it on the head,
OD servo pin missed the OD band. Oops. Just the sheer coincidence that the symptoms were the same as my original symptoms made me assume I missed something, instead of just an assembly goof.
Turns out it *IS* p... |
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2002 Ford Taurus 3.0L Misfire, MIL Lamp on Thanks for all the responses. You all had great ideas . The main ones were head gasket, ignition coil, broken valve springs, and injectors. Here is what I did. First I eliminated the valve springs since the problem would come and go and not reappear for da... Trouble codes: PO301 (misfire 1 cylinder), P0316 (misfire detected at start up). |
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2005 Other Ford Caterpillar 7.0L Excessive Emissions, Cuts out, Misfire I replaced all fuel filters, also drained and inspected diesel for contamination. All the parameters in Data stream were within spec, SO because I had no Warning lamp On in Cluster and have no OEM diag equip for further testing , I decided to send this truck t... Trouble codes: 34 (Flash code no description). |
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