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

[Carl Prochilo]

Ian, You are correct.  If a CID sensor goes bad, the engine will stumble
and lose power, but not necessarily stall.  This is definitely from
personal experience.  The issue at the time was heat sensitive.  The only
good thing I can say about this is that the CEL came on and the computer
did capture the 214 code IIRC.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Thu, March 24, 2005 8:00 am, Ian Fisher said:
> My understanding of the cam sensor is that it is used
> for starting. If it is bad, the engine can go through
> as many as 6? cycles before it starts with backed down
> timing. HOWEVER-once running, it may run poorly and
> cause issues such as stalling, loss of power, etc. I
> think this is why sometimes its difficult to tell if
> its a crank sensor issue or a cam sensor issue. A bad
> crank sensor usually causes stalling as well.
>
> This is a combination of theory, personal experience
> and my understanding of what I have read here on the
> lists and different books.
>
> .02
>
> Ian
> --- Barry Hayes <Barry@kingcon.com> wrote:
>> The cam sensor is primarily for setting the timing
>> at startup, but when
>> mine went it would also do the bucking bit on the
>> highway with a ce
>> light on. Also, it would sometimes make a very odd
>> noise trying but
>> failing to start and the tach would act weird.
>> Changing the sensor
>> cured it.
>> Barry Hayes
>>
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