rickbtbird
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Last summer I purchased a 95 and drove it back from Florida. On the way, I split a motor mount on the passenger side and blew an alternator some where in Maryland, on a Sunday. That alternator was a $500.00 bill from Sears I'll never forget. I limped back to Connecticut and parked it.
Last Fall I decided to tear into it and do the all the mounts, both engine and tranny. I got those done in my spare time and few broken knuckles and bolts and a couple of spare parts from some nice SCCoA members. THANKS!
Along the way football season and winter set in. In the Spring I became semi disabled temporally. It's took me until late summer to get totally back to where I can get under a car.
In the spring, my 90 start acting up. It had this intermittent high idle problem. I knew it was the IAC so I swapped it out with the one from the 95. That worked perfectly.
I finally got the bugger reassembled this weekend. It's been almost a year since I turned my first bolt on this thing. Along the way I put in new plugs, wires, coil, IAC, and some under drive pulley, a few new gaskets and 5% jackshaft. I went to install the new SPC upper exhaust and found the passenger side doesn't fit. I ended up putting on the old one for now until I can get Bill on the phone.
So I get everything reassembled and slap on the EEC reader and I pull code 558 which tells me my EGR pressure regulator has no voltage. Ok crap I'm tired so I go to bed. Sunday morning I search for about an hour for the connection and the unit and it like trying to find a needle in a haystack. I search the SCCoA for "EGR pressure regulator" and don't you know it someone posted the location of the regulator, THANKS AGAIN! Its right where they said it was. The wires were hanging above it with two exposed female connections off the main wire harness. So I stick my hand down in back of the motor and something hits the ground sounding like plastic. It's the connector! So now I have a dilemma, which wire goes in which hole on the connector.. ! Well it's got to be either one way or the other, so I attach the wires and rescan for code and it comes up all ones , I'm good to go.
It starts right up and the idle is fine, everything is looking good. I tighten up a radiator hose and drive it off the ramps. First stop in the Gas Station and fill up with 93. Done, I chirp the tires exiting the gas station and run the rpm’s up a bit until I hit the high way and engage the cruse control. Everything’s running like a top. No more thumping of the motor from the broken motor mount and my shifter doesn’t chatter anymore either. God bless the new mount kit.
So I pull off and head down the off ramp and a problem crops up that I don’t remember happening prior to the tear down. My idle hangs around 1.8k for about 15 seconds and the gradually goes down to 1.2 and then to around 1k. . The IAC is brand new out of the box from MotorCraft. It has the original part number on it that my junky old ones had.
Now I’m thinking about swapping the IAC out between the 90 and the 95 and see what happens next.
Last Fall I decided to tear into it and do the all the mounts, both engine and tranny. I got those done in my spare time and few broken knuckles and bolts and a couple of spare parts from some nice SCCoA members. THANKS!
Along the way football season and winter set in. In the Spring I became semi disabled temporally. It's took me until late summer to get totally back to where I can get under a car.
In the spring, my 90 start acting up. It had this intermittent high idle problem. I knew it was the IAC so I swapped it out with the one from the 95. That worked perfectly.
I finally got the bugger reassembled this weekend. It's been almost a year since I turned my first bolt on this thing. Along the way I put in new plugs, wires, coil, IAC, and some under drive pulley, a few new gaskets and 5% jackshaft. I went to install the new SPC upper exhaust and found the passenger side doesn't fit. I ended up putting on the old one for now until I can get Bill on the phone.
So I get everything reassembled and slap on the EEC reader and I pull code 558 which tells me my EGR pressure regulator has no voltage. Ok crap I'm tired so I go to bed. Sunday morning I search for about an hour for the connection and the unit and it like trying to find a needle in a haystack. I search the SCCoA for "EGR pressure regulator" and don't you know it someone posted the location of the regulator, THANKS AGAIN! Its right where they said it was. The wires were hanging above it with two exposed female connections off the main wire harness. So I stick my hand down in back of the motor and something hits the ground sounding like plastic. It's the connector! So now I have a dilemma, which wire goes in which hole on the connector.. ! Well it's got to be either one way or the other, so I attach the wires and rescan for code and it comes up all ones , I'm good to go.
It starts right up and the idle is fine, everything is looking good. I tighten up a radiator hose and drive it off the ramps. First stop in the Gas Station and fill up with 93. Done, I chirp the tires exiting the gas station and run the rpm’s up a bit until I hit the high way and engage the cruse control. Everything’s running like a top. No more thumping of the motor from the broken motor mount and my shifter doesn’t chatter anymore either. God bless the new mount kit.
So I pull off and head down the off ramp and a problem crops up that I don’t remember happening prior to the tear down. My idle hangs around 1.8k for about 15 seconds and the gradually goes down to 1.2 and then to around 1k. . The IAC is brand new out of the box from MotorCraft. It has the original part number on it that my junky old ones had.
Now I’m thinking about swapping the IAC out between the 90 and the 95 and see what happens next.
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