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Guys, I have been posting about the problem listed below, but there is a new symptom, when I start up in the morning there is a popping sound like a mild "Backfire" that can be hear from the area under the drivers feet. Here's the rest of the infor, anyone else run into this?:
In the morning when I first start the car, back out of my driveway and proceed to press the gas pedal, my car just, well, doesn't go anywhere, it just ever so slightly rolls as it would in idle. After doing this 2-3 times it picks up a little power and after about 25-35 seconds, its fine. This only happens after the car has not been driven all night and cools down. Its fine upon warm starts.
P.S. New O2 sensors w/ Cat recall
New Exhaust Gas pressure diff. sensor
Recently cleaned EGR
Plugs and wires have ~1K on them
Jesus is Messiah
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Might try having fuel injectors cleaned. Mine was doing a backfire thing as one of several symptoms. Plugs, wires, fuel filter, and fuel injection cleaning took care of it. I'd pay for real fuel injector cleaning rather than using the stuff you can buy and dump in the gas tank...never got a permanent improvement from that stuff.
1996 Contour GL Sport, Zetec, MTX
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Castle products makes a new fuel system cleaner(professional grade) great stuff
96 zetec gl.dynomax exhaust(self bent) KKM intake..Bridgestone Potenza RE-910's...other mods also
87' Ford Thunderbird..Now my daily driver ( the wife uses the contour mostly) true dual exhaust with the super mystery mod.(hey there not even there!) tinted windows and stereo upgrade. the $200 car is starting to be a great car
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I used Redline SI-1 Complete Fuel System Cleaner. That stuff took care of clogged/sticky injectors that had been off a junkyard motor and sat around a garage for who knows how long before I installed them. The car would hardly run before I dumped a bottle of it in there. After running a tank with a bottle of SI-1 in there they cleaned up perfectly and started throwing CELs (for too much rich correction - which is expected when going up in size, but I wasn' getting before the cleaner).
This product is the first time I have ever noticed any difference using a gas additive fuel injector cleaner. I picked it up at a local Pep Boys for about $5. Highly recommended, at the very least it will rule out a possible cause for not much money. Might want to change your fuel filter if it has over 30k miles on it, too (then run the FI cleaner - no sense in wasting it on a clogged/dirty filter).
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i have this same problem. i've tried injecter cleaners, cleaning intake, got a new MAF, changing sparg plugs, and other things i can't think of right now. it is fine when it's warm out though. a mechanic told me i just have a rough starup. after like 5 min of idle on a cold morning, it runs fine. the next thing im gonna try is new wires, hopefully this will kill the problem.
1995 se mtx. its all cool now.
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i used this gas tank treatment called regane as the suggestion of someone from this site...it takes 2 or 3 tankfulls before u feel a difference but im sold on it now
95 contour se...dark blue...monsterflow air filter...remanuf atx...wiring harness recall or bust!!!96k miles...motorcraft awsf32pp plugs & red ford racing 9mm wires...kvr black plated cross-drilled rotors & carbon fiber pads...currently undergoing renovation...excuse our dust!!!
are my dodgers for real????
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I had this problem too. I tried to trouble shoot it myself for a while then got tierd of it and took it to Ford. It took them 3 days to find it but hey did. They told me it was a bad vacum leak. They fixed it, Bent me over and gave it to me without VASALINE and now the car runs like a raped ape..
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It took them 3 days to find it but hey did. They told me it was a bad vacum leak. They fixed it, Bent me over and gave it to me without VASALINE and now the car runs like a raped ape.. Pete -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I bet you do too!!!  Sorry I'm bad!!!!
95 Teal Se 5 spd,duratech, loaded(except moonroof) no mods.
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pro gard fuel injector cleaner works great. i have been using it for about 12 years on all the cars on my car lot and it is the only stuff that i have found to really work but i am going to try that red line stuff and give it a shot. i am always open to new products but i do know that pro gard works right now!!!!
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pro gard fuel injector cleaner works great. i have been using it for about 12 years on all the cars on my car lot and it is the only stuff that i have found to really work but i am going to try that red line stuff and give it a shot. i am always open to new products but i do know that pro gard works right now!!!!
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