this seems like a good place to ask a question about the CEL on a 92 explorer.... hope you don't mind
anyway
recently i moved to texas, from california. i drove there with my ex and i towed a small u-haul trailer with most of my stuff in it.
most of the trip was through the desert, so it was hot (on a side note i got to see the grand canyon for the first time and also that huge crator that is in arizona!). Somewhere between barstow, california, and needles, california (a good 200 miles i think) the CEL came on. It stayed on most of the trip, except after the car was turned off and rested for a while. Shortly after starting back up, it would come back on (like maybe 20 minutes).
the only times i can think of when it wasn't on for sure was when the temperature outside was lower than 80 degrees maybe (like at night, or when we drove through the higher areas of arizona).
now that i'm settled down in texas, the CEL never comes on (it never did before the trip, either). It could be so many things.. and i never bothered to find out what codes it was throwing out... but i wonder if anyone has an idea of what could have been the problem.
also, before the trip (which was 1500 miles) i changed the oil and did a bunch of other maintenance stuff to it, new alternator, new radiator.... i was a litte paranoid i guess hehe. replacing the radiator was worth it though, because we were able to use air conditioning for most of the trip. it would have been miserable with out it, because it was pretty hot most of the way.
the 1500 miles was pretty much continuous, we never stopped for more than a few minutes to a half hour. 25 hours straight in the car gets really wierd. its like that whole day just sort of melted together (and the night too).
thanks for any help/information you can provide!
