97 probe problems
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my nephews 97 ford probe (2.0)died on him in the middle of 45th the other day, ran fine and then just quit. turned over then nothing, took it tuffys auto center(as thats what he was right in front of when it happened), they said they fixed it, when he went to get it he started it, let it warm up, and fifteen minutes later when he tried to take off with it it died. he then he held the gas pedal to the floor and started it, it started and ran rough, put out a huge black cloud, he shut it off and it started right back but did the same thing... opinions? car runs fine when cold and idling, warm and driving it loads up and dies......
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he says the first time it was spitting and sputtering but after it was fixed he said he tapped the gas pedal and it instantly died
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unbelievably they charged him $70.00 for a distributor cap and 75.00 to install and another 29.00 for the rotor, mabye a bit steep?
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if it put out a huge cloud i'm thinking it could be dumping fuel? would make sense on the throttle input dieing thing.
but without looking at it i can't even begin to help as to what it is.
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Im with drifter on this one. Black clouds of smoke from the tailpipe usually mean its getting too much fuel(Rich). Leaking injector?
Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall
Torque is how far you take the wall with you -
Rexwagon;253518 wrote:
post a vid.i never get to see him doing this stuff, just hear about it then help him fix it...lol he said the cloud was huge, left a huge black melted spot in snow bank behind it...
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nonamekid;253532 wrote:
It has a mazda drive train, and the problem is in the engine, so to blame it on ford....Is this the 4-cyl or the V6? Why did he not go right back in the store and tell them they didn't fix the problem?
he went to pick it up after hours, he already charged to his crdit card and had a spare key. and yes everyone on fargostreet knows about ford/mazda partners....bp-08 educatiumed us on that...lol unfortunatly:icon_rr: and its a 2.0
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