joshuatbird
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- 2002 explorer Sport trac
I have a vacuum leak in my 2002 ford explorer sport trac 2wd. It's throwing a p0171 cylinder 1 too lean. I'm new to mechanics. Like really, really new, but luckily I'm an extraordinarily fast learner. This is my second day with the truck. I bought it (as is ), and on the drive home the code kicked on. He must have cleared the code though, because it was obvious he was trying to troubleshoot the issue. He replaced like all the hoses, the air filter, fuel filter, fan etc... MAF looks new too. Radiator and housing too, not sure why... I do apreciate the free parts . It doesn't take a genious to figure out they were attempting to solve the P0171. Apparently it was done in haste on a guess to guess basis, probably not the most effective approach... Anyhow, he gave up on it, and I got this really nice truck with like zero body damage, 180k on odometer, for $1500. After troubleshooting different systems via information I gathered online yesterday, I began to suspect a vacuum leak. Using a design from youtube, I built a home made smoke machine for $12, and easily traced a bad leak to a specific part that is attached to a vacuum port on my intake manifold. The repair manual issued by ford calls it a "heated pcv fitting". Searches for this turn up empty on Auto Zone, O'Reillys, Napa etc. Here is the picture of the part in the manual:
A Google search for (year/make/model +) heated pcv fitting turned up nothing like it. Searches for (year/make/model +) heated pcv intake fitting turned up the part below. It does look similar, but when I go to checkout, the site says it doesn't fit my vehicle. I found many similar parts using this search term, all of them with slight variants for different trucks, but nothing that says it fits this vehicle. This is becoming quite a headache . Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I need to have it road ready by March 14th. Sorry if I'm calling things by the wrong name. I didn't know what a MAF sensor or an intake manifold or a p0171 was on Monday, like I said, very new to mechanics. Here is the picture of what the search that included the word "intake" first turned up:
A Google search for (year/make/model +) heated pcv fitting turned up nothing like it. Searches for (year/make/model +) heated pcv intake fitting turned up the part below. It does look similar, but when I go to checkout, the site says it doesn't fit my vehicle. I found many similar parts using this search term, all of them with slight variants for different trucks, but nothing that says it fits this vehicle. This is becoming quite a headache . Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I need to have it road ready by March 14th. Sorry if I'm calling things by the wrong name. I didn't know what a MAF sensor or an intake manifold or a p0171 was on Monday, like I said, very new to mechanics. Here is the picture of what the search that included the word "intake" first turned up:
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