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had to take the wife to an appt yesterday over in Germantown. Well as we were coming our turn off the Explorer died--lots of traffic. I got it started back up and had no other issues. Ran the codes this evening and it's leading me to a vaccum leak or bad sensor (fuel rail pressure sensor) What isn't fun about it is you have to take the intake and no telling what else off just to get the the dern thing--what a pain
Hope you get it lined out Mike
That sounds like just to much fun Mike. Especially as hot as it is. Hope it's just a vacume leak.
tks me too--not hard just a pain to check everything out--and little time to do it:banghead
Good luck with it Mike! It's always something!:dono
me to except I still have to take the intake off so I might as well change everything LOL so I dont have to do it again for antoher 100k milesQuote:
Originally Posted by cray
good luck man, I cracked into my F-150 a few years back and after I had everything taken off, I realized I was in over my head and had to trailer it to the shop. Hope everything works out for ya. If all else fails, use some duct tape!
childs play really just a pain to HAVE to do it. Got a bug up my but when I have my Bronco and decided to tear the engine down and rebuild it--did it over a weekend--but the only reason I did (I found the problem 4 years later) was because the check engine light and though I had a bad cam. I did find the issue which was a $20 relay--least I had a "new motor" that I knew what had been done to it:)Quote:
Originally Posted by MO' MONEY
Of course too I was younger and had more money then:biggrin
you are going to have to get a ladder to get you up high enought to see the motor in that explore
Figured I'd back the truck up to it with the tailgate down--use the side steps to get in the bed and walk right up too it:)Quote:
Originally Posted by slabin
set it on fire, of course after you have verified the ins. payment went through !!
it has actually one of the better vehicles we have owned--brakes, tires, and oil changes is all that has needed to be done on it. Only has 117K on it--I'd buy another one
I have a 87 3/4 ton Chevy trk that use to have one of those electronic metered carbs on it and started having a bunch of trouble with it. When I finished with it I had put a new intake, a real carb, new msd streetfire dist, purple horny glass pacs, headers, cat converters. Got rid of the factory fuel tank and mounted a 50 gal fuel tank in the back. Changed the water pump while I had everyting off so I didn't have to go back and do it. The only problem I have is I can't keep a fuel pump more than about 300 miles. But I have figured out how to fix that. Of course it doesn't have a lot of the stuff it had under the hood when it came from the factory. It has the old 4 speed truck tranny in it along with new clutch components. :cheers2 All I can say now is talk to me sweetheart as I accelarate. Oh yhea.
FISH ON:fish
The engine service light came on in Debbie's car. I went to the auto parts store for them to plug the tool in to check what was wrong. The guy told me all that showed bad on his computer. Then he told me to add a bottle or 2 of injector cleaner to the fuel tank and take the rubber boot off of the intake to clean the trottle body with some spray cleaner. Now I stop at Dollar Tree every other month and buy 4 bottles of injector cleaner and add 2 to her car and 2 to my truck. No problems in 4 years.