Disconnect MAF, Problems?

[Joelzme]

Hey,

I had posted on here a few months back about some rough idle problems I was having. Finally took it to Ford and they said my MAF and O2 Senor were bad (had no codes tho).

I replaced and the problem did not go away. In fact she REALLY started to idle very rough and was smelling very rich.

On a hunch I pulled the MAF while is was going on and the problem went away comepletely. I had replaced the bad MAF with one from Autozone, but the part numbers don't really match.

My question is, do I really need the MAF working all the time? The only problems I see right now are a loss of power on some dead stops, otherwise she does good. I use this as my commute when I don't want to take my big truck out.

I am going to take the part back to Autozone and swap it out again, but I would appreciate anyone's thoughts on this.

Joel

 

[killaguerilla]

auto zone is notorious for giving out the wrong parts, every time i get parts from them i find myself returning it and then running around town to find the right part . those gus suck, the one dude tried to tell me that my rear diff uses 5w-30 i wanted to choke him