It was doing great. I noticed a little loss in mpg coming back from Orlando over Christmas but I figured it needed a tune up and I'd get to it. Well, a couple weeks ago I got in it and it was skipping real bad. Barely made it up the hill outside the subdivision. I got it to a "reputable" Ford shop here in town. It is not a Ford center but all they work on is Fords. I got a call saying it needed plugs, injection service, fuel filter, serpentine belt and a oil change. I had them do everything but the belt and oil. I can do that myself. I did'nt want to deal with the plugs. Well, they called and said it is still skipping and it needed coil packs. OK. They put in the packs and it ran great untill you get to wide open throttle or get to the 50-60mph range and put a load on it like going up a hill and it surges. It never "surged" just skipped. After $930 I pulled it from that shop. They want to pull the injectors and clean them to the tune of $280 and there is no promise that it will fix the problem. No codes have been thrown. None when I first had the problem, none with them and none now. No check engine light either. I did notice today that the PCV valve has a loud buzz to it. When I pull it from the engine the buzz goes away but the idle gets rougher. I've pulled the plugs on the injectors and you get a noticeable idle change. I dont know where to go from here. This sounds like one of those throw parts at it problems.

 

Did anyone at this "reputable" shop bother to check fuel pressure? Sounds to me like you may have a bad fuel pump.

 

Did you actually check for codes or assume that because the CEL light is not on that you don't have a code? We never know sometimes, so the question has to be asked.

 

I hooked the scanner I have to it and it said no codes. They asked me if I disconnected the battery because the got no codes out of it either. The scanner I have is a action pocket scanner.

 

Sounds like fuel pump to me also. There is a port on the fuel rail on the passenger side of the engine that you should be able to connect up a pressure gauge to. The ECM does not monitor fuel pressure from what I have read.

 

Alright. Great, I'll see what is needed and check that. I saw the port you are talking about.