FHBasketball
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- July 8, 2005
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- City, State
- St. Louis, MO
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '97 SPORT
Okay guys, i'm really worried about my explorer. Here's the deal. I bought it about a month ago. It's a '97 sport 4x4 manual with around 145xxx miles. When I bought it the CEL was on, and I had it diagnosed befotre signing any papers of course. It was just a lean code which the mechanic said is most likely a vaccum leak caused by bad upper intake gaskets. I decided to do the usual MAF and IAC cleaning before replacing the gaskets, and I also installed a K&N intake before the gaskets were replaced. Everything seemed fine for about 2 weeks, but the CEL ended up coming back on. This past monday I went ahead and had the intake gaskets replaced and hte code reset. but sure enough, pulling into work on wednesday the CEL came back on. The mechanic won't be able to look at my EXplorer again until monday. I also just haad a set of BBK headers installed today, and when they gave me my keys back I immediately went out to fire up my explorer. It doesn't sound too much different right now because I haven't done a cat-back yet. But now at idle it's really bad. The RPMs go up and down like it's on a pogo stick, and there is a really bad engine wobble. if you give it a little gas it doesn't seem to have a problem, but as soon as it returns to idle, it starts wobbling again and the RPM go up and down between about 250-800. I wouldn't think that just having headers installed would do this, and I know the mechanic that installed them wouldn't mess around becasue I work at the dealership also. The reason this is urgent is because I don't want to be sitting at a stop-light and have my explorer die and not be able to get it started again. any help you guys can give me on what the problem might be would be great. the sooner the better because this is my daily driver. thanks.