[Shotimes] SHO left me stranded... 50 yards from a Ford dealer

[lewis]

I don't know how or when the cam sensor works, but my car would start
bucking and surging and acting like it was running on 4 or 5 cylinders.
After almost moving every wire I could (with the car idleling poorly) I hit
upon the camshaft sensor wiring harness.  When I moved it one way(right
where the wires go into the sensor), the car would run great.  Move it to
the other side then poorly.  I took it apart and couldn't see anything wrong
with the wiring harness.  Probably a break inside the wire jacket.  Bought a
new one, installed it, no problems since.  So I guess the sensor sends some
kind of signal to the computer.

Will Lewis
95 red mtx

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Paul L Fisher
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 5:47 PM
To: 'Ian Fisher'; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] SHO left me stranded... 50 yards from a Ford
dealer


I thought cam sensors were only used for starting?


Paul L Fisher

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-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Ian Fisher
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 4:25 PM
To: Mike Bruce; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] SHO left me stranded... 50 yards from a Ford dealer

The SHO would always pull crap like that on me before
class. It would never malfunction after class. Stupid
car-I blame my undergrad GPA on the SHO. :)

I suspect the cam sensor. Could be a bad crank sensor
but the cam is easier to swap out and check first.
Less than $40 at AZ. If you want, I can Priority mail
a few used ones to you tomorrow. Did the tach read 0
rpm when you managed to get it started and it was
running rough?  I had a cam sensor fail me in the
backwoods of Poughkepsie NY. Thank god the car started
fine and I drove home to NJ the next day-it was one of
my first SHO malfunctions (the first of many).

Ian