Recent content by MikeS

UPDATE I think we have fixed it!!!! Smoke it one more time and found when I put the intake back on that the rear urethane gasket had slipped and was letting air into the intake at the fire wall, ordered another set of intake gaskets and tore it down once again about 3 hrs later I was...

Updates Double checked all mounting urfaces associated with the air box, intake air tube and throttle body, cleaned the throttle body with seafoam and a toothbrush ( throttle blades were pretty tarnished/carboned up so that needed done, ran better with alot crisper throttle responce...

OKAy I am at a LOSS! After all the repairs and parts replacments ( Y Pipe cats,, Main Cat, o 2 sensors($) MAF sensors,MAF sensor wiring harness, Fuel Filter, Fuel Pump triple checked all vacum lines took intake plenum apart ro check that it is sealing flush to the intake manifold. Drive...

Question for all of you , After replacing the Mass air Flow sensor and the wiring do I have to take the truck through a Ford Drive cycle to get rid of the hard code that is present on the PCM and teach the PCM the new MAF sensor I have cancelled the PO171 and PO 174 codes a few times...

what should I get as fuel pressure readings at the rail?I tested it and got 40 psi not running ( just keyed the ignition 5 times then while running I had a reading of 65 psi. Thinking this is rather high for a stock pump, could it be the fuel pressure regulator that is going bad ?

Update on my 06 ranger 3.0l Replaced fuel filter ,no change, checked wiring to maf sensor had good readings except the signal to the pcm it was not until I shove the wire back against the plug did I get a reading,so, I changed out the plug with ford Motor craft genuine part.. Still...

2006 3.0 L 6 cylinder 2 wd regular cab engine issues! Now what? 2006 3.0l with 169 k on it heads were remanufactured at 158k , had a check engine light for the catalytic converter poe 420 . Had the y pipe and secondary Cats replaced new o2 sensors, then took it out fior test...

fixed a busted timing belt and replaced water pump while at it, flushed cooling system and now have no cabin heator defroster, when selected it still blows out Ice cold a.c air, checked by pass valve to make sure vaccum lin is hooked up, heater hoses are both hot so it is circulating...

broke the timing belt on my 96 2.3l dismantled it and could only find marks for the cam and oil pump pulley. How do I know that the crank is back at top dead center before I put the belt back on? how many times does the crank spin in relation to the cam? 2 to one? I got...