Detroiter
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- Location
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- Vehicle Year
- 1988
- Make / Model
- Ford Bronco II
- Transmission
- Automatic
Greetings all. I wonder if you all might be able to help me diagnose couple of issues that I believe are related. The truck is an '88 Bronco II with a 2.9 and an automatic. It's relatively new to me, so I'm not yet all that familiar with it.
Problem one: The truck starts right up when it's (Detroit in winter) cold, and instantly settles into a nice idle. If left sitting it'll idle happily until it starts to warm, at which point it surges badly for thirty seconds or so, and then settles back into a consistent idle. If I drive away without letting it warm it goes through a similar phase, though when moving down the road it feels like a really bad miss, and the resultant loss of power.
Problem two: When warm it is reluctant to start. By that I mean it fires right up, but quits. Almost as though it's out of gas and I've spayed into it just enough ether for it to catch. It'll do this once, twice, have a dozen times, but in the end fires up as though all is well. It hasn't up to this point left me stranded, but I can't say that I'd trust it in an emergency...
Logic is telling me it's a sensor of some sort, so I figured I'd ask the question here in case it's a previously seen scenario.
Many thanks,
E
Problem one: The truck starts right up when it's (Detroit in winter) cold, and instantly settles into a nice idle. If left sitting it'll idle happily until it starts to warm, at which point it surges badly for thirty seconds or so, and then settles back into a consistent idle. If I drive away without letting it warm it goes through a similar phase, though when moving down the road it feels like a really bad miss, and the resultant loss of power.
Problem two: When warm it is reluctant to start. By that I mean it fires right up, but quits. Almost as though it's out of gas and I've spayed into it just enough ether for it to catch. It'll do this once, twice, have a dozen times, but in the end fires up as though all is well. It hasn't up to this point left me stranded, but I can't say that I'd trust it in an emergency...
Logic is telling me it's a sensor of some sort, so I figured I'd ask the question here in case it's a previously seen scenario.
Many thanks,
E