1. Make and Model of your car: Ford, Windstar
2. Include the mileage: 136,000 Miles
3. Stick shift or automatic transmission: Automatic
4. 2 or 4 wheel drive: 2 wheel drive
5. Strange sounds: None
6. Fluid leaks: Brake Fluid
7. Past repair history if applicable: Don't know
A little history on this vehicle: Bought from someone who admitted poor maintenance. It would only start if it was warm outside and sometimes it was necessary to leave the hood up with it sitting in the sun to get it to start.
When it started it would start hard, smell of gas and backfire once or twice. Driven out of town and now won't start at all.
ODB Codes reflected lean fuel in both banks when running. Replaced all 4 oxygen sensors. Also checked out the crank sensor, temperature sensor, air temperature sensor, & Mass Air Sensor. I used a heat gun set on low to heat up sensors to try and figure out what needed replaced.
I changed the plugs and they were horrible with a gap of about 80.
Engine cranks, no smell of gas. There is fuel at the rail, with good pressure - not tested but it will shoot about 8 feet, no pulse at the injectors. I changed the Powertrain control module. I checked over the wiring and now I'm stumped.
Joe
2. Include the mileage: 136,000 Miles
3. Stick shift or automatic transmission: Automatic
4. 2 or 4 wheel drive: 2 wheel drive
5. Strange sounds: None
6. Fluid leaks: Brake Fluid
7. Past repair history if applicable: Don't know
A little history on this vehicle: Bought from someone who admitted poor maintenance. It would only start if it was warm outside and sometimes it was necessary to leave the hood up with it sitting in the sun to get it to start.
When it started it would start hard, smell of gas and backfire once or twice. Driven out of town and now won't start at all.
ODB Codes reflected lean fuel in both banks when running. Replaced all 4 oxygen sensors. Also checked out the crank sensor, temperature sensor, air temperature sensor, & Mass Air Sensor. I used a heat gun set on low to heat up sensors to try and figure out what needed replaced.
I changed the plugs and they were horrible with a gap of about 80.
Engine cranks, no smell of gas. There is fuel at the rail, with good pressure - not tested but it will shoot about 8 feet, no pulse at the injectors. I changed the Powertrain control module. I checked over the wiring and now I'm stumped.
Joe
May 30, 2007 at 7:37 PM