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Many of us seem to have the "lurching" issue when we are at partial throttle and light load. I have been dealing with the same thing and attempting to isolate the root cause (outside of it being a 10 year old Ford).

One thing I have noticed is that I can roll into and out of the problem. If I am cruising along at 20% throttle around 30 miles an hour the problem will begin. If I back out of the throttle the problem stops. If I roll back in, the problem returns. If I continue to increase the throttle, I will come out of it near 50% throttle. This scenario can be recreated regardless of speed/gear.

This leaves me believing that the TPS is bad. Has anyone had something similiar? Is my analysis accurate?
 
TPS is possible (worn). Bad ignition wires or a sparkplug has a carbon track, mine had it on the center rear cylinder (duratec).
 
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