[Fot] Badly Behaving Ford Explorer .....Any Ideas ??

[Charly Mitchel]

We had a similar problem in a van and it was a loose wire on the fuel pump,
the forward one.  It seems it has 3 fuel pumps, one in each tank and a main.
In another van we had a problem where the van would start and not run.  If
you held the rpm's up after it started it would be good once it warmed up.
We had to wait until the check again light came on to register a code.  it
was easy after that, a $20 part.  There are about 40 $20 parts(sensors) on
this motor.
Charly Mitchel
TR6 #44
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Babcock" <billb at bnj.com>
To: <Group44TR7 at aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Badly Behaving Ford Explorer .....Any Ideas ??


> I'd look at the fuel pump in the tank. They can get gunked up or
> start failing to rotate and then suddenly kick in. Pain in the ass to
> replace sometimes, but the part is relatively cheap.
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> On May 2, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Group44TR7 at aol.com wrote:
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> > Amici
> >
> >     Our 1992 Ford Explorer has been a very  reliable vehicle until
> > the last
> > several months. Now, every once in a while,  it does start with the
> > engine
> > seeming starved for fuel. There is no clear  pattern emerging as to
> > when this
> > happens. However, after sitting a while after  refusing to start,
> > it suddenly
> > start again. Then it works fine for many days or  even weeks.
> >
> >     Each time, we have brought it to the garage, they  could not
> > get it to
> > fail. So we had an agreement to tow it over when it was not
> > starting; so we
> > towed it over today after it did not start and it started right
> > away. The garage
> > says there is a long list of potential causes such that it  would be
> > speculation on their part to start doing anything, anyone had
> > similar  problems or
> > suggestions on the most probably cause.
> >
> > Cary
> >
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