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i was under the impression that the 94 explorer was still OBD-1 compliant so there would be a simple way to pull engine codes through pulses in the check engine light or perhaps the ECU. i don't know ford so i have not had experience with them. i'm in a position were i had to by my brothers 94 ford explorer eddie bauer from him and now the gas guage is broke and from what i've read a bad fuel pressure regulator is my other problem as i'm experiencing terrible flucuations in gas mileage. so now that i've run out of gas for the 3-4th time(which i'm sure my fuel pump has enjoyed) i'm going to replace the FPR and check the sending unit for the gas guage or perhaps the floater connected to the fuel pump. but i thought i would pull engine codes for ****s and giggles. everywere i've read i have to hook up a voltmeter and place it on point X and point Y and wiggle my ears, etc. are there no other mehtods of doing this? please don't flame as i don't care what you have to say negatively about me.
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Welcome to FTE!
Whew ! Now,I realize you don't really hate fords,
IMO if this was Dear Abbey ,your name would be *Frustrated in..........*
Perhaps a post in the electrical forum will help.
Be on the lookout for Steve83 as he will help you out with pulling the codes and the other concerns.
I will make a copy of your post and place it in the electrial forum for you.So keep one eye on that forum too!
Whew ! Now,I realize you don't really hate fords,
IMO if this was Dear Abbey ,your name would be *Frustrated in..........*
Perhaps a post in the electrical forum will help.
Be on the lookout for Steve83 as he will help you out with pulling the codes and the other concerns.
I will make a copy of your post and place it in the electrial forum for you.So keep one eye on that forum too!
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engine codes
It is better to light one candle than to forever curse the darkness.
This is about as easy as it gets in reading codes. If you think it is not, wait till you try to read an OBD-II system with their magic mumbo jumbo proprietary bus interfaces speaking at least 3 different languages.
When OBD-III comes out, I heard we all will have to read/write Mandarin Chinese and get keyboards with at least 4,000 different symbols on them, then a security clearance from the Air Force to use the MilStar satelite tunneled interface into our cars systems.
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This is about as easy as it gets in reading codes. If you think it is not, wait till you try to read an OBD-II system with their magic mumbo jumbo proprietary bus interfaces speaking at least 3 different languages.
When OBD-III comes out, I heard we all will have to read/write Mandarin Chinese and get keyboards with at least 4,000 different symbols on them, then a security clearance from the Air Force to use the MilStar satelite tunneled interface into our cars systems.
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actually this is ridiculous pulling codes... on my 91' 300zx twin turbo i just sold for this POS ford (for my own financial burden problems) I could pull codes directly from the ECU with the turn of a dial. And as for ODB-II.. i have my VAG-COM for that, and it actually makes it even easier than this ****. thanks for the responses.
