Okay... Here's a great tip!!!

[steveissteven]

I finally did it...

I've been talking about it for several months now. I finally got around to doing it yesterday.

I have a 1993 Ford explorer and have had constant issues with it since time of purchase.

Everything under the sun has been replaced and or rebuilt.

Seemed no matter what I did it just wouldn't run right.

Anyone here experiencing the same symptoms???

Well after talking with John Mastiff (Ford Product Engineer - Seattle Office 1-206-387-1262 ext. 9110) on several different occasions. We came up with a solution that I find will benifit all of us.

Purchase a remote starter at your local auto-parts store. You may also consider purchasing 100 feet of both black and red 10 gauge insulated wire (see below).

Using the additional 10 gauge wire, attach one end of the black wire (ground) to the Explorer frame using any available bolt -- this must be secure. Using a wire nut (or similar connection method) attatch the other end of the ground wire to the black lead of the Remote Starter.

Do the same for the red wire, but attach the opposite end to the positive connection on your Starter.

No comes the fun part ......

Remove the gas cap from vehicle and drop a 20 foot length of Green (It can be any color) 10 gauge wire into the gas tank. Make sure that the end entering tank has a one inch exposed end on it)

Attach the other end of green wire to the positive terminal of the starter (Same place as you attached the 100 foot red wire as explained in above paragraph)

Now you must put some distance between you and your Explorer. Take the Remote Starter with you taking up all slack in the two wires (Black and Red... all 100 feet)

When a safe distance has been established... crank it baby!

You have now solved every problem your explorer has ever had... Ka-Boom.... no more Ex

Hope this helps. It has helped me immensely and thought I would pass on my good fortune.

 

[Gary Steeber]

Sounds like you have reached the ULTIMATE heigth of frustration.

Say goodbye to your "EX"

Good luck!!!

 

[MSTNGGUY88]

Hopefully insurance doesn't want to investigate and find any traces of wires. You would probably be better off drenching it in gas and saying damn someone must hate me.

 

[TwoToneX]

Or give it to me...I'm sure I could find a happy home for a lot of parts off it..especially if you've rebuilt or replaced a lot of it. Just don't kill her

 

[mattadams]

LOl at first I'm thinking "hmm wonder whats going to be solved with this" then oh yeah hes going to explode the thing!

 

[tbomb]

Originally posted by mattadams
LOl at first I'm thinking "hmm wonder whats going to be solved with this" then oh yeah hes going to explode the thing!

same here; i was reading it all intently, too, heh.

 

[TwoToneX]

Originally posted by tbomb


same here; i was reading it all intently, too, heh.

If it was anything like me, you read intently until the "put the green wire in the gas tank" part

 

[tbomb]

Originally posted by TwoToneFordExpl


If it was anything like me, you read intently until the "put the green wire in the gas tank" part

well, yeah

 

[janikphoto]

Yeah, as fun as it might be to explode a car, hopefully you won't ACTUALLY do that. I'm assuming that you have insurance and that would TOTALLY be insurance fraud. But it would be fun! An easier way is to find a wire in the engine bay and strip back some insulation. We see cars burnt to the ground all the time here in Dallas, most of them have oil all over the engine bay and then a stray wire makes a spark. Next thing you know, you're sitting on the side of the road with a pile of melted plastic and warped metal...

 

[Trckmagik]

JANIK, Do you have a blue or black explorer w/ a small amount of lift! If so, I was looking for that person as I see them on the road alot. Brian.Green@nationwide-recovery.com

 

[fireftr]

DUDE!.... you're a sick puppy. As you can see from my name, I fight fires for a living. We know you're kidding, RIGHT? Anyway, there's too many people out there today who don't or can't tell fact from fiction ex- the 15year old pilot in Tampa. Unfortunately to some extent, the same axiom of old still holds true...(F)ix (O)r (R)epair (D)aily. Ford made great strides in quality control since the Taurus made the scene in '86, but it seems that has gone by the wayside recently. Tough on us consumers to keep buying American. My wife's car is an '01` Aurora. Nice car, well appointed, definitely not cheap, but an unbelievable amount of rattles with just 10k on it. What's a mother to do ? I don't have the answer, but when you buys the vehicle, you takes your chances! Seriously, hope your bad luck changes for the better with some other vehicle.

 

[janikphoto]

Sorry, trckmagic, but you'd never spot this explorer in the sea of other white ones. It looks like almost every other white explorer and only has a few stereo mods and matching (20%) tint on the front windows. Everything else is VERY stock looking... Since it's actually my wife's vehicle, I'd never think of lifting it. It is unstable enough in hard braking as it is. Luckily she's not the average woman driver and has managed to do some pretty slick moves in emergency driving situations...

 

[RFR2212]

Originally posted by janikphoto
Since it's actually my wife's vehicle, I'd never think of lifting it. ...

Too bad, lifting it can actually improve the handling... Seeing as how the explorers pretty much handle like ass stock...
Pete

 

[TwoToneX]

Originally posted by RFR2212

Too bad, lifting it can actually improve the handling... Seeing as how the explorers pretty much handle like ass stock...
Pete

You're tellin me It's a pain in the arse trying to park that thing in most of the spots up here in Boulder...

 

[addkev]

I have thought of parking mine right next to the sea wall, and accidentally leave it neutral, ad dedicating it to the deep...

But with my luck, they would come back and say they could fix it.