Hows things been going guys? Okay about 3 weeks ago me and my girlfriend drove her 93 ford taurus 3 and a half hours on a trip to see her parents. We drove 2 just fine and stopped at a gas station. We started it back up just fine got not even a mile down the road and it just decides to quit on us. It wouldnt start back up at first. You could give it gas while trying to start it and it still wouldnt start back up it was backfiring through the intake manifold acted like it was getting gas. Just wasnt burning it. After a few minutes we tried it again it seemed to start just fine and idle just fine without giving it any gas. We tried to go down the road but we only got a few feet down the road and it done it again. Just quit. Could this be sensor related. A while back i tried to get them to change the idle air control valve on it because it was having bad idle problems. It would idle bad when you first started it like fast idle then slow down and acted like it wanted to quit but never did it would pick back up to fast idle again and do that for about 5 mins. It did that on ocassion. Sometimes it wouldnt start you would have to floor the throttle pedal and then it would finally start. Any ideas thanks guys. Plus this car has over 200,000 miles on it. The plugs and wires have been in the car for about 20,000 miles.

 

MAF senor, maybe? Try unhooking it and starting it.

 

Hello Not sure I am posting correctly as this is my FIRST time here but I don't know where to turn or how to start a new POST. I am having major problems with my front subframe rusting out & my oil pan too. I have heard that 98 was also a bad year for the metal Ford used in subframes. Has anyone heard this? Can anyone guide me as to what I can do about this very serious problem? The car has not even hit 110K yet! :-( Other then this & my door handles sticking bad, it seems to run pretty good. HELP! Thank u Meg

 

Okay thanks 94blk5.0. what should happen if it is good and what should happen if it is bad. What am i looking for. They took it to have it put on a computer a meineke but there computer didnt do cars that old. Which i dont know why they dont being such a big known place that they are. I guess now they arent that big. Anyways they told her whey they tried hooking it up the signs it gave was showing the oxygen sensor. Is that possible being bad would cause this to happen? Also if it is how many oxygen sensors does this car have. What kind should i get and where are they located at on the car. Thanks

 

The other day i went out and was looking around and was looking for the oxygen sensors. Noticed the one in the back. It was unhooked. I thought that was weird. Well i plugged it up but i didn't notice a difference at all. Also i unplugged the MAF Sensor when i started it and it was running like I explained in the earlier thread. I plugged it back in and it quit for a few seconds but went back to bad idling. I also notice a few seconds i started the car the air bag light started flashing. It would flash 3 times then 2 times. Then back to 3 and 2. Kept doing that for a while. But i don't know what that means. Does anybody have a idea?