Ok, my wife took the explorer in for an oil change, the suv ran excellent ,then the technician added a bottle of fuel injector cleaner to the tank.Over the next 2 weeks the vehicle slowly started running rough,now it is to the point where when it is warmed up it will not go over 10 miles an hour i have to pull off the road wait for a couple of minutes just to get a little 20 mph speed burst out of it.But when it is in park and i rev it, it has all the power and rpms i need. I did replace fuel filter,and i had apressure test done and the mechanic did say there was a little loss of pressure in the fuel pump but he never gave me the answer if thata was the problem or not........
1994 Explorer no power????????
Apr 17, 2005
4 Replies
check fuel pressure and VOLUME
hurc ast
If its running rich, its prolly the fuel pressure regulator.
If its running lean, its prolly the stupid-assed 2" piece of rubber hose Ford insisted on putting INSIDE the gas tank. Nothing like a little designed-in failure.
Neither piece seems to take well to fuel injector cleaner. The additional additives manage to eat the half-rotten rubber pieces away. Similar scenario to people replacing the transmission fluid on old un-maintained transmissions. They tend to 'wash' the rubber pieces right out.
Describe more on how it runs. When you can't get over 10-20 mph, is it coughing? Do you have to floor it or barely feather the throttle? Generally if its
Hell, for all I know you might have slagged your transmission well enough its *dragging* that hard :)
JS
"j4k3" wrote: > QB13 wrote: > > Ok, my wife took the explorer in for an oil change, the suv > ran > > excellent ,then the technician added a bottle of fuel > injector cleaner > > to the tank.Over the next 2 weeks the vehicle slowly started > running > > rough,now it is to the point where when it is warmed up it > will not go > > over 10 miles an hour i have to pull off the road wait for a > couple of > > minutes just to get a little 20 mph speed burst out of > it.But when it > > is in park and i rev it, it has all the power and rpms i > need. I did > > replace fuel filter,and i had apressure test done and the > mechanic did > > say there was a little loss of pressure in the fuel pump but > he never > > gave me the answer if thata was the problem or not........ > > If its running rich, its prolly the fuel pressure regulator. > > If its running lean, its prolly the stupid-assed 2" piece of > rubber hose > Ford insisted on putting INSIDE the gas tank. Nothing like a > little > designed-in failure. > > Neither piece seems to take well to fuel injector cleaner. > The > additional additives manage to eat the half-rotten rubber > pieces away. > Similar scenario to people replacing the transmission fluid on > old > un-maintained transmissions. They tend to 'wash' the rubber > pieces > right out. > > Describe more on how it runs. When you can't get over 10-20 > mph, is it > coughing? Do you have to floor it or barely feather the > throttle? > Generally if its > > Hell, for all I know you might have slagged your transmission > well > enough its *dragging* that hard :) > > JS
Yes i do have to feather the gas pedal but only a couple of inches before the vehicle starts to cough.When i nail the throttle the suv carburator coughs and it bounces like i?m playing with air shocks.
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