[Shotimes] 80mm MAF failure, ~$price? (HELP)

[Al Fitz]

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Al Fitz
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnsho92" <john_sho92@yahoo.com>
To: <kerbyh@netzero.net>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] 80mm MAF failure, ~$price? (HELP)


> Hello,
> 
> It seems I have my Luck with these MAFs.  I beleive I
> ordered them through carparts.com for a Lincoln MARK
> VIII, 1996 version?  I'm not sure if I got this right,
> but at the previous times, everyone told me it was the
> right make, year and such..
> 
> I have bought a total of four.  Three for each of our
> SHOs in our household, and one replacement one for one
> I had for a full year that Failed.  The one that
> failed was MY daily driver, and yet I think it failed
> on my again. :(  Reasons why I beleive it's the MAF
> and not the LPM or any other sensor, I swap out all
> the possibilities and MAFs, etc. and isolated it to my
> MAF. 
> 
> This stems back to my previous postings of a
> hole/surge from 3k-rpms - 4k-rpms which is lost of
> power, severly.
> 
> I swapped MAFs and it's all great again..   
> 
> 
> - How much do they cost now a days?
> - Where can I find one besides re-manufactured
> carparts.com?
> - What am I doing that may have killed the MAF, each
> lasted only ~1-year.
> - Anyone else have similar problems?
> 
> Recently within the last three weeks, I've been
> getting 14 miles per-gallon with this bad MAF, not not
> 100% sure if it's soley the MAF or not..   I'll swithc
> MAFs and it's ok for now, haven't had long-term
> testing with my other MAFs, it's my next step..
> 
> 
> THANKS ALL, soryr for long-winded posts.
> 
> 
> -John Wong
> 
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