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

[David Carmean]

This is how mine behaved; it would start fine, usually run OK.  
Once in a while it would start the bucking bronco act and I'd pull 
over, shut it off and wait for a while, and it usually started and 
ran OK again for a while.

Nick replaced the cam position sensor for me several months ago and 
it's run fine since then.


On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:59:01PM -0500, lewis wrote:
> 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
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