Hello,
I own a 1989 Escort. I am not the original owner, but it has only had two. Before me it belonged to an old lady who drove it to church and back every Sunday. It had only 32,000 miles on it when I got it two years ago. Now it has a little over 50,000. The problem I am having is very shortly after starting it stalls, unless I keep the idle up. After it warms up, it stays running until I put it in gear and then it stalls again. It is like I need to drive with two feet just to keep the thing running. We (Me and my father) take pretty good care of this care whenever there is a problem we cannot fix or find it goes up to the mechanincs at the end of my street. We have changed many things to try and fix this. The parts we changed include the throttle body, solenoid, pickup coil in distributor, and fuel pump. What else could it be?