SOS - Need help! - PING Jim Warman!

Any time that we make a change or a repair and wind up with somethig worse, it's time to double check what we've done (or haven't done). When you removed the lower manifold, did you disturb or unplug the camshaft position sensor? How about the DPFE hoses... it can be easy to reverse these li'l boogers. Plug wires are easy to damage if improperly removed. There's a host of gotchas waiting for the unwary....

Go over everything once with a fine tooth comb to be sure everything is hooked up.... once again to be sure it is hooked up where it should be.

Two things I was always told when I was much, much younger..... "check it over.... check it over again..... check it over one more time.... when you're sure it's right, look at it one more time"..... and (drum roll please) I must offer thanks to the bean counter at one job who reminded me (time and again) that I should "cheer up.... things are never so bad that they can't get worse......"

HTH

{frustrated sigh}

I thought late last night it might be vacuum hose but I covered that and believe it might be something else; didn't touch the cam shaft sensor, but I I'm start back on it this morning and start re-checking wiring to be sure I did miss something. Plug wires might be something to look at, they are new but who knows.

DPFE, is that the device on top of the drivers side fender with a vacuum line, a two wire sensor plug, a larger line running to the front of the plenum intake including a similar line running to presumably to the gas tank? not sure if I understand about reversing the lines as there is only one small vacuum line running to it. One thing that I noticed is that the larger hose which runs to the front of the intake is almost charred in the sense that just handling it, the hands became completely black just by touching it.

I humbly report back...

Yes, basics are important and the most easiest thing that you take for granted causes the biggest problem.

The issue was Chilton's little "tech" cd; Not only does it show the incorrect fuel pressure but also incorrectly states the firing order in relationship to the plug wires. A good mechanic I took the truck to today smiled after I told him were I got my info in putting the spark plugs back; he told me that wasn't the first time they got a little business thanks to Chilton, I had too much faith in the Chiltons books as my grand-dad swore by them but that was in the days before all the electronics and computer controlled fuel injectors in cars.

Oh well, did find I have some bad fuel injectors and short of the plugs wires, everything thing else I did was good and on the bright side, my coolant system is really flushed well since last fall I replaced the thermostat and this weekend I pulled the intake twice.

DPFE, AKA "the postage stamp". Looks like a small (around an inch), thin black plastic box with two inch long rubber hoses and an electrical connection on it. The rubber tubes (actually silicon, if I remember right) connect to steel tubes running to the EGR system. All Fords I can think of have them these days - except diesels. Depending on the vehicle they may be screwed to something, on a plastic push pin, or just wobbling around on the end of the tubes.

Wulf