Considering selling my Cougar

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Considering selling my Cougar

Reply #15 – December 21, 2013, 10:33:27 AM

yep,, suckin too much gas..

if your making a habit of driving in D instead of OD on faster roads... that wont help.

you want to sell it, use a paperclip to pull your codes after its warm.
With CFI, its pretty much the same various parts that fail on SEFI. The ECT / TPS /ACT & MAP all get involved in dumping the signal to to the EEC to supply a ground to your two injectors.

this way you can sell a car that you know is working right.

my full size bronco 351 gets 12mpg and thats normal for the 6800lb hulk.

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Reply #16 – December 21, 2013, 11:19:48 AM

It's not that the cel is burnt out, there simply is no cel on this car!

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Reply #17 – December 21, 2013, 01:30:54 PM

Purchase a cheap code scanner for obd-1. The connector port is under the hood. If ya don't wanna spend the $20 you can use an anlog voltmeter to read codes

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Reply #18 – December 21, 2013, 01:45:28 PM

I ran out to AZ and got a cheap $4 test light, it did the job! It looks like ECT AND TPS are the issue (if i read them right)

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Reply #19 – December 21, 2013, 06:26:19 PM

could have pulled codes with a test light or a cheap digital multi meter.

replace the tps for sure.

did you run the test when the car was warm? if not that could be a false code.

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Reply #20 – December 21, 2013, 06:27:17 PM

oops, misread your post, thought you bought an actual scanner. fix the tps and let us know.

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Reply #21 – December 21, 2013, 06:45:57 PM

Bear with me, because I'm not sure I counted them right, but I got these from the scan: 14, 15, 18, 21, 31, 53, 61, 83.

Not sure how to get the TPS off, the fast idle cam assembly interferes with removal of the TPS. http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?36574-High-idle&p=422976#post422976

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Reply #22 – December 21, 2013, 08:01:27 PM

reference codes here.

http://oldfuelinjection.com/index.php?p=14

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Reply #23 – December 21, 2013, 08:05:08 PM

are you running codes with the car on? all the codes I saw referenced to continuous memory codes. double check the codes. if you want, make a video and upload it, that way you can re check, and everyone else can.verify.

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Reply #24 – December 21, 2013, 09:20:46 PM

I got these KOEO

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Reply #25 – December 22, 2013, 08:55:48 PM

after looking at your codes, you have an erratic pipe sensor code. generally this means the pip in the dizzy or the ignition module (on the distributor) is bad, causing a loss of spark or intermittent miss. there are actually a few sensors not working that you really should replace.

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Reply #26 – December 22, 2013, 09:04:12 PM

yep, the pick up module in the dizzy is not hard but can be hard if you have not done it before.

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Reply #27 – December 22, 2013, 11:35:40 PM

I pulled the neg cable to clear the codes, now the only one coming up is 83

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Reply #28 – December 23, 2013, 10:36:15 AM

continuous memory codes are only stored for 20 key cycles. if you had those codes, you had those problems.

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Reply #29 – April 05, 2014, 04:01:40 PM

Bump - might be interested if you're still considering selling.