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Assuming yours is the same, I don't see an ABS relay on the circuit diagram I'm looking at. It has just fuse 14 (10A) in the interior fuse panel, and fuses 7 (30A) and 3 (50A) in the under hood power distribution box. These go directly to the ABS control module. I agree with 96eb96 that you...

In the worst case the mirror switch should just make the lights stay on for the longest timed interval possible. I forget how long that is but in the range of tens of seconds IIRC. It should not continue to cause battery drain. I mean if it were stuck on and heatlight still lit up, sure, but...

You could pull individual vac lines off the intake and plug them one at a time, or pinch those soft enough that pinching is possible (though old rubber can be damaged from pinching) trying to further rule out vac lines. Check fuel pressure with a gauge on the fuel rail before changing the fuel...

^ You mean both fuse 11 and 12 in the under-hood power distribution box? They do appear to come straight from the battery, no other fuses before them. I don't know exactly how you determined that those fuses are dead, so you might pull them out and check continuity across their blades with a...

Failing battery would tend to cause slow cranking before anything else.

Seems like either the switch contacts in the steering wheel or an intermittent contact and/or failing remote receiver module (or both). PATs, seems like most people are have a problem with the coil module around the ignition cylinder... not sure what fails on those electrically unless it...

Yearly replacement? I'd expect the tank is rusting out to the point where it needs replaced if it comes to that. Otherwise I'd check the fuel rail pressure when having the problem, thinking it was the fuel pump, or possibly pressure regulator on an (up to) '98 model year (or filter but now...

Yeah just fix what you know is wrong and go from there. If it's not a daily driver then I wouldn't wait till I had a stud extractor, just go ahead and see if the pump bolts come loose, even if you don't do the whole job at the time. CPS, yes I'd expect the sensor itself or fouled connector as...

This got me wondering, if the fuel rail valve starts leaking can it be replaced with the same valve core you'd buy for a bicycle/etc?

^ I'm not looking at service manuals at all, rather owner manuals. If the owner manual describes battery replacement and doesn't state it's needed then it shouldn't be. It is not surprising that a workshop manual would suggest that a reset "needs" to be done when technically it doesn't...

^ Neither the Explorer or Taurus manuals (at least those model years I've looked at) state that the battery age needs to be reset, just to wait the relearn period. It does mention battery replacement though, so it's not as though they omitted the topic, even going so far as to state there is...

It will in no way disadvantage the battery health. On the contrary, for the remaining time the system thinks there is a weaker battery it won't let the new one discharge as low so it would do the opposite of what you claim, contribute to a longer life for your new battery (albeit only for a...

The summary to all of this is that you don't need to do anything. Just wait for the vehicle to relearn the new battery states.

That would be the motorcraft from RockAuto that Koda linked. Among the others at Rockauto I'd be tempted to go with the SKP because it looks serviceable with the rear screwed on and an exposed bushing to lubricate it, but that exposed bushing also means it can become contaminated if you don't...

Yeah I wouldn't reuse door handles since they're plastic and probably getting brittle by now, and the two springs on each are known to get weak or break, and those springs aren't really user serviceable, more of a hack to fix than it's worth compared to buying new handles. IIRC I picked up 4...

What exactly do you mean by failing? Have you taken the seat out and looked it over? Could be that the tracks are rusted and grease hardened, motors just overwhelmed by it. Otherwise see if you can lube the motor bearings or bushings, whether the brushes are good, any bad spots on the...

Each relay has an associated pinout (#1 thru 5) as shown on the following diagram. You could start there with a multimeter, probing to see if you have 12V in on the switching (headlamp relay) contact pin #3, if you have 12V on the coil contact pin 1, continuity to ground on coil output pin 2...

If it all of a sudden started getting multiple misfires, it is not likely to be that several plugs and wires all failed at once. One plug, wire, or coil, could cause two cylinders to misfire if it's the same two that share the same spark sequence in this waste spark setup, so it would depend on...

Probably the master switch itself, not key related. See the following pic of the bottom of the driver door master switch. When it won't roll down, use a scrap of jumper wire (or multimeter in current measurement mode and set to 10A+ range) to short the 12V blue/black wire in the pic, to the...

'95 was a transition year, your port may not support standard OBDII codes. See this topic: obd 1 or obd2?

Someone posted that pic in this forum a few years back as far as I can recall. Here's another one:

I'd either hunt down the right relay box diagram, which could be useful to you in the future too, or just randomly swap one of them since headlights should come on without anything else, even without engine running... unless they changed that too? Worst case, put a masking tape label on each...

The relays are accessible, you just have to be small or a contortionist to get down in the driver's footwell, and that box may have a plastic cover that needs popped off. I don't recall but would have needle nose pliers, a small flat blade screwdriver and a flashlight in hand. The pliers may...

Which fuses did you check? On the interior box there are fuse 4 (left) and 8 (right) but also in the under-hood power distribution box there are fuses 11 & 12. If all those are good, and assuming nothing wrong with the wiring (or connectors) itself, then I'd suspect the headlamp relay, up and...

^ Agreed, but nobody is comfortable sitting on a bomb. My '98 still only has a little over 100K mi on it, but they are hard (stop and go, hills and curves, not highway) miles, so having the SOHC alters my long term plans. For example, recently I started to hear what sounds like a lower left...

^ Yeah but you don't know what state it's really in till you get there. That one has a hood that looks weathered so much worse than the rest, that I'd assume it has been in some kind of accident and the owner did bother to pick one at a junkyard that started life the same color, but didn't...

No need to do it until you have noise. If it follows the typical pattern the noise will begin at cold startup and progressively get worse. Edit: I mean get worse over weeks/months/years, not as the engine warms up.

Just to confirm, your oil looked like a chocolate milkshake right? Just asking because people usually mention that more often than over full if there's significant coolant in the oil. Yes the block itself has freeze plug(s) that could have popped, but then you wouldn't be holding coolant now...

^ Engine warming up and closing an intake gasket leak can happen, but it won't necessarily happen. Smoking the intake, propane, starting fluid, water spray, etc can find a leak but that's not guaranteed either. I would look at fuel trims with a scan tool. If it's leaking they're going to...

^ While I don't accelerate much past 3000RPM often, I do often accelerate over 2200RPM, half the time I get going from stopped if there isn't traffic in front of me. I'm not saying that's much difference, but I just don't see the argument for switching to a 4L OHV unless it has fewer miles on...

Are you saying your transmission guy made adjustments and it's still shifting funny so he's claiming the cause is misfires, or that he fixed the shifting AND told you there are misfires? If there are misfires and you get those fixed but it still shifts funny, is he going to bill again to fix...

^ John, the factory way that is wired for the mirror courtesy lamps is the interior dome lamp, cargo lamp, and compass/air-temperature module all 3 have a Black/Light-Blue wire that joins together into a single Black/Light-Blue wire that runs to the dimmer module. None of those wires is...

Yeah it's a bit different than choosing which engine if the rest of the vehicle were new again. I'd sooner put new timing components on my SOHC than switch to a 4L OHV, wouldn't wear those out again before something else caused me to scrap it. Guess it would depend on the mileage of the OHV...

I'd consider it, but then again if pulling the engine before it's trashed, putting in new chain, tensioners and cassettes for another dozen + years life expectancy isn't a bad trade off. What model year and how many miles on it? Swapping in what OHV, low mile pull, rebuilt? I mean say you...

^ You might've lucked out, especially if you can get the hoses off and back on without that disturbance causing them to leak too... costs less and less hassle to swap than a rack, though if you want some hassle, it looks like you might also be able to save a few bucks using seal kit to rebuild...

^ Previously you wrote "Need to get my truck started just to get it home.. please help ASAP" Then we didn't hear from you for 6 months. Considering that you were probably going to have to be taxied back and forth for tools and wouldn't be able to get around to this for another 6 months, then...

Take the door panel off and see if the window regulator is moving or you only hear sounds from the motor. If the regulator broke you may need a new one but if it's just the motor gears there are plastic pucks inside that can shear off. Dorman makes a "help" kit with replacement pucks, I think...

^ Odd, I thought it was rude that you didn't reply to your own topic for 6 months after others made the effort to reply.

Because you smell it while driving, I would wonder about a fuel rail leak causing fumes being pulled in through the HVAC duct, and I'd leave it sitting idling to see if you can detect a stronger smell anywhere.

Yeah if I had fuel pump issues I'd get the whole sending unit with pump and new sock and do it all at once while the tank's dropped... don't like putting back 18 y/o parts when the cost difference isn't much and you have to drain and drop a tank to get to them (or cut an access hole in the floor...