DonM
Explorer Addict
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- September 4, 2001
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- City, State
- Ocean View, NJ
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 95 XLT
Well, my old explorer is still haunting me. I actually sold it to my brother. He knew of the problems I was having but that didnt matter to him. He thought he could fix the starting issues, just like Id thought I could.
Well after some months of being demon free, he calls me and asks me to do more research on this. Ive already done hours of reading here at Serious Explorations looking and asking for anwsers. As originally thought, it was the Apten chip. That was taken out for a few weeks. But still, the starting issues continued.
Ive posting about this problem many times and ive yet to find out what the problem is. My brother has replaced nearly every thing that could cause this. Plus ive done replaced things when I owned it. The only thing we can think of is the starter. That's the last thing we can think of, or somthing in the ignition colume?
Back in the warmer months, spring summer and early fall. The truck would start on the first crank most of the time. Once every week or two it would need two or three cranks to get the engine started. Now that it is cold here in Jersey it does this on nearly every crank, just like it did for me last winter. Cold weather it takes 2-4 cranks of the key to start the engine, nearly every time he goes to start the truck.
Ive searched this site for the anwser numerous times. The starting problems got the best of me and is the second reason I got rid of it. Now it's got the best of my bro.
What on earth would cause this? Could a starter on it's way out cause these symtoms?
BTW, battery is a year old. Cables are in good shape. I put a new FPR on within the last six months or so. A new fuel pump was replaced around the same time. A new Fuel pump relay was put in along with another relay(forgot name)
I noticed the other day when we looked over everything again. When I turned the key in the on posistion, not Start! The fuel pump kept running for longer then the normal three sec. It did that before, so I replaced the relays and that seemed to fix the longer running fuel pump.
Reguardless, the colder air temps sure seems to make things worse. What ever the damn problem is?
Well after some months of being demon free, he calls me and asks me to do more research on this. Ive already done hours of reading here at Serious Explorations looking and asking for anwsers. As originally thought, it was the Apten chip. That was taken out for a few weeks. But still, the starting issues continued.
Ive posting about this problem many times and ive yet to find out what the problem is. My brother has replaced nearly every thing that could cause this. Plus ive done replaced things when I owned it. The only thing we can think of is the starter. That's the last thing we can think of, or somthing in the ignition colume?
Back in the warmer months, spring summer and early fall. The truck would start on the first crank most of the time. Once every week or two it would need two or three cranks to get the engine started. Now that it is cold here in Jersey it does this on nearly every crank, just like it did for me last winter. Cold weather it takes 2-4 cranks of the key to start the engine, nearly every time he goes to start the truck.
Ive searched this site for the anwser numerous times. The starting problems got the best of me and is the second reason I got rid of it. Now it's got the best of my bro.
What on earth would cause this? Could a starter on it's way out cause these symtoms?
BTW, battery is a year old. Cables are in good shape. I put a new FPR on within the last six months or so. A new fuel pump was replaced around the same time. A new Fuel pump relay was put in along with another relay(forgot name)
I noticed the other day when we looked over everything again. When I turned the key in the on posistion, not Start! The fuel pump kept running for longer then the normal three sec. It did that before, so I replaced the relays and that seemed to fix the longer running fuel pump.
Reguardless, the colder air temps sure seems to make things worse. What ever the damn problem is?