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A friend of mine has an 89 supercoupe, and he's experiencing a strange problem. I've read thru many, many pages of this forum, and used your search feature...I've even spoken to an old friend that had a supercoupe a few years back, and so far this appears to be a new one....
His car starts up and idles fine, and drives as it normally should, until the engine reaches normal operating temps, at which point, whether driving or at idle, will just shut down. Here's the really tricky part...you cannot restart the car until it has cooled completely down...a 45 minute reset. After that, the car fires right up and goes on its merry way, until it reaches temp again, and the process repeats itself.
I've not personally gone to look at the car, nor am I very familiar with Ford's ( I specialize in a ...different... make of car), so I'm not positive on the specifics of what he's replaced and what he hasn't, but from what he's told me, he's already replaced most of the ignition components, including the ignition computer (?)...
No CEL or other indications appear...I'm pretty stumped on this one. Are there any auxilliary temp sensors that could be malfunctioning and forcing the complete cooldown reset, but don't give off any dash indication? Any other ideas? Anything at all would help at this point. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I apologize for being so long winded.
His car starts up and idles fine, and drives as it normally should, until the engine reaches normal operating temps, at which point, whether driving or at idle, will just shut down. Here's the really tricky part...you cannot restart the car until it has cooled completely down...a 45 minute reset. After that, the car fires right up and goes on its merry way, until it reaches temp again, and the process repeats itself.
I've not personally gone to look at the car, nor am I very familiar with Ford's ( I specialize in a ...different... make of car), so I'm not positive on the specifics of what he's replaced and what he hasn't, but from what he's told me, he's already replaced most of the ignition components, including the ignition computer (?)...
No CEL or other indications appear...I'm pretty stumped on this one. Are there any auxilliary temp sensors that could be malfunctioning and forcing the complete cooldown reset, but don't give off any dash indication? Any other ideas? Anything at all would help at this point. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I apologize for being so long winded.