Fuel Problem
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From: Fort Lewis, Wa
Screeeeeech........ Hold it brother..... I had the same problem, bought and almost single handedly replace the entire fuel and ignition system at one point over the same problem. Ok.... It sounds to me like a bad ground for the computer, or the Inertia (fuel pump cutoff) switch. In front of the front passenger seat, if you pull the carpet back a little, there is a little cable, with an inline switch, check to see if it is popped out, if it is, push it back in to reset. If that is good.... go to the negative pole on the battery and follow the ground cable, there are a few other grounds that branch off of it, one of them is the ECM or computer ground, chances are it has corroded or was pulled loose during a battery install..... I can almost guarantee that is the fix, it is a very common BII problem........... Let me know if it works
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So I just got home from Charlotte NC. I had to take my 71 F250 that I have been restoring down there to be painted, after having to repossess it from the place that it had been (long story). Anyway after lots of runaround with the auto parts store I finally was told my code scanner (Actron CP9180) was in and ready to be picked up. After reading the box I pointed out that it did indeed only work on OBD II Vehicles (96 and newer). When I expressed how displeased I was that they had misled me and then through several mistakes on there part made me wait a week for the code reader, they gave me a CP9015 (which will work on the older fords) for free. I did not have a chance to read the codes before taking my truck to the body shop. So on my way home from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com[img] /><st1:City w:st=[/img]Charlotte</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st=" /><st1:City w:st="on">Charlotte</ST1
</st1:City> I checked the Forum and found the posts about the ground wire. When I got home I figured I would take a quick glance at it even though it was late. I found that it had new battery cables on it. The negative was grounded to the engine only. All of the other ground wires had been cut. I found the one that turret_plug had mentioned and subford posted a picture of. I bared and temporarily grounded it. The Bronco fired right up. All I can figure is that when the transmission went out the previous owner put on new battery cables while waiting to find a transmission, because we know now it could not have run the way it is now. Any way I never did get to use my 2 new scanners but I am sure I will. Tomorrow I will clean-up the wiring and go from there.<O</O
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Thank you all for your posts and all of your knowledge and patience. I am sure I will be asking more of you in the future. Until then I will be reading this forum as well as the 67-72 forum trying to learn all I can.<O</O
</st1:City> I checked the Forum and found the posts about the ground wire. When I got home I figured I would take a quick glance at it even though it was late. I found that it had new battery cables on it. The negative was grounded to the engine only. All of the other ground wires had been cut. I found the one that turret_plug had mentioned and subford posted a picture of. I bared and temporarily grounded it. The Bronco fired right up. All I can figure is that when the transmission went out the previous owner put on new battery cables while waiting to find a transmission, because we know now it could not have run the way it is now. Any way I never did get to use my 2 new scanners but I am sure I will. Tomorrow I will clean-up the wiring and go from there.<O</O<O
</OThank you all for your posts and all of your knowledge and patience. I am sure I will be asking more of you in the future. Until then I will be reading this forum as well as the 67-72 forum trying to learn all I can.<O
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