robH1977
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- City, State
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1998 Ford Explorer XLT
I have now had my Explorer since November. I have most things repaired.
1998 Ford Explorer, 4.0 SOHC
ABS Sensor light - Went to a junk yard and pulled a set from the newest explorer that was there,cleaned them both before installing, issue is resolved.
(1st lesson learned )
I lifted my vehicle with a jack, and pulled passenger wheel off. ABS sensor was pretty straight forward, and I was not going to be under the vehicle - so I did not put it on my jack stands (BAD), jack slipped, I instinctively pulled away, but vehicle caught my should, and had a good bruise and soreness for a almost a week. Never work with a vehicle with any lift and wheels off without using jack stands.
Check Engine light has been coming on. Had the p071 and p074
I picked up some MAF cleaner, looks nice and undamaged. Still have been intermittently getting the CEL on. I pulled the air duct work off an cleaned the
Throttle body as best I could (was ugly), also pulled and cleaned the throttle position sensor, and the Idle air control valve since I had everything off.
I pulled a spark plug to check them out to see if they needed replaced. They looked OK. Put everything back together and was popping the CEL frequently.
Now I am thinking that my MAF was probably bad, so i tested it out by unplugging it as vehicle was running, vehicle bogged down but did not die.
I stopped by the parts store, just to go ahead and get a new pcv valve, ran the code again to see if anything had changed.
(Lesson 2) - Don't get stuck on a code as the only issue, it popped up a P0122 code (Throttle/peddle sensor low input) I researched this, and found that I had not tightened the sensor back on quite enough.
I am CEL free for now, will give it a few days before I consider everything a success.
Also, After replacing my PCV valve out, I noted an open connection right next to where the PCV valve goes, looks like it should have a hose connected to it, but not sure what it is. Anyone, I could not get a good picture of it last night but I am attaching some pics of the general reference point to its location.
1 is the location of the PCV
2 is the location of the random open connection that looks like it should have a hose connected to it
1998 Ford Explorer, 4.0 SOHC
ABS Sensor light - Went to a junk yard and pulled a set from the newest explorer that was there,cleaned them both before installing, issue is resolved.
(1st lesson learned )
I lifted my vehicle with a jack, and pulled passenger wheel off. ABS sensor was pretty straight forward, and I was not going to be under the vehicle - so I did not put it on my jack stands (BAD), jack slipped, I instinctively pulled away, but vehicle caught my should, and had a good bruise and soreness for a almost a week. Never work with a vehicle with any lift and wheels off without using jack stands.
Check Engine light has been coming on. Had the p071 and p074
I picked up some MAF cleaner, looks nice and undamaged. Still have been intermittently getting the CEL on. I pulled the air duct work off an cleaned the
Throttle body as best I could (was ugly), also pulled and cleaned the throttle position sensor, and the Idle air control valve since I had everything off.
I pulled a spark plug to check them out to see if they needed replaced. They looked OK. Put everything back together and was popping the CEL frequently.
Now I am thinking that my MAF was probably bad, so i tested it out by unplugging it as vehicle was running, vehicle bogged down but did not die.
I stopped by the parts store, just to go ahead and get a new pcv valve, ran the code again to see if anything had changed.
(Lesson 2) - Don't get stuck on a code as the only issue, it popped up a P0122 code (Throttle/peddle sensor low input) I researched this, and found that I had not tightened the sensor back on quite enough.
I am CEL free for now, will give it a few days before I consider everything a success.
Also, After replacing my PCV valve out, I noted an open connection right next to where the PCV valve goes, looks like it should have a hose connected to it, but not sure what it is. Anyone, I could not get a good picture of it last night but I am attaching some pics of the general reference point to its location.
1 is the location of the PCV
2 is the location of the random open connection that looks like it should have a hose connected to it
