OBD-11 Trouble Codes

"karen-harvey" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@localhost.talkaboutautos.com:

Car year engine please

And it's OBD II (when in Rome, get it?)

Got to google, this group, search: EGR PFE DPFE

Then search on MAF

Then search the web CLEAN MAF

{But ignore the idgits who say it's real delicate. Just dont bend or drop it. Use clean med bristle paintbrush and rubbing alcohol, clean, rinse, clean rinse several times.}

Then, sign up as a google group user (AOL cant get newsgroups) and be a 'big boy' ;)

The car is a 1996 Windstar and has a 3.8 liter engine

"karen-harvey" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@localhost.talkaboutautos.com:

Great... that request was just for drilll you should always post that info, just in case there's a specific very common occurrence...

However do what I said re the google groups and web searches... based on previous problems solved on here, the problem is probably in your DPFE (refer to autozone locater)

And the 'lean' problem may well be a dirty MAF

Does it have the black "plastic" intake or the aluminum 1 ??

If it is the "plastic" 1 replace the intake gaskets (upper and lower) and the bolts with rubber grommets that holds it down, they leak often and cause a lean code.

It also has a problem with the front valve cover, the pcv valve sucks up to much oil causing the intake to get flooded with oil.

FYI, Autozone refers to this part as an "EGR pressure sensor".

mike