blueovals
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- Aug 17, 2015
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- beautiful northeast iowa
- Vehicle Year
- 1999
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 3.0
- Transmission
- Automatic
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- welder: because balls out fire breathing metal bending bad ass mofo isn't an official job title
Awhile back I was coming home and lost power and seemed to be misfiring and blowing gas from the pipe. It threw a p0340 code. It was out of time. Put new timing belt on and got back in time. Still wont hold an idle, hard to start, runs rough and shakes like a beast. Changed the cam sensor. Still not better. I've read a few posts saying that the alternator could be the culprit. Something about an odd wave through the system that affects the cam sensor circuit. A friend said to check the maf as he had a similar problem and disconnecting it puts the system in "limp" mode. I tried that and it smoothed out some. Haven't tried pulling the belt to check alternator yet as the truck is sitting in 8 inches of snow at the moment. Need her running again asap. Any suggestions or experiences with this would be great. Can't afford to keep dumping money in her blindly. TYIA.