dfinley
New Member
I've been having severe drivability problems that I cannot solve. The problem is stated below. I read the memory codes and got a 157 and a 214. I also got a hard fault of 111. I've already replaced the CID and the DIS and I've R&R'd the MAF. Any suggestions?
Here's a restatement of the problem:
I have a '95 Taurus SHO 5-speed. It's in great shape with 70,000 miles and I take extremely good care of it.
About eight weeks ago it developed a very unusual and intermittent problem.
Here it is: The car stops accelerating as soon as it hits 3,000 rpm. It feels like it has a governor on it and just stops accelerating and falls flat on its face. Sometimes it will buck a little, but mostly it just kind of decelerates. It does continue to run however. If this happens on the highway, I have to back off the accelerator, gear down and then slowly bring it back up to speed. Needless to say, this is dangerous. It will do about 55 mph, (eventually), and I can run it around town as long as I don't drive it aggressively. If I turn off the car and restart it, the problem usually goes away. It might come back in an hour or a few days. Lately, it's been there every day. I have had four mechanics, including two Ford dealers, look at it and none of them can figure out what's wrong. Ford couldn't even generate any error codes. I've had a new fuel pump put in the car. I put in a new DIS myself. It's a Borg-Warner part, not a Ford part. The latest mechanic I have working on it got a 219 error code and replaced the spout circuit. All to no avail.
In addition, the car occasionally loses the tach while the car continues to run. The tach just sits at zero for a while but the car could be doing 50 mph! After a while the tach will come back and the car will run fine. Check engine light comes on occasionally.
Here's a restatement of the problem:
I have a '95 Taurus SHO 5-speed. It's in great shape with 70,000 miles and I take extremely good care of it.
About eight weeks ago it developed a very unusual and intermittent problem.
Here it is: The car stops accelerating as soon as it hits 3,000 rpm. It feels like it has a governor on it and just stops accelerating and falls flat on its face. Sometimes it will buck a little, but mostly it just kind of decelerates. It does continue to run however. If this happens on the highway, I have to back off the accelerator, gear down and then slowly bring it back up to speed. Needless to say, this is dangerous. It will do about 55 mph, (eventually), and I can run it around town as long as I don't drive it aggressively. If I turn off the car and restart it, the problem usually goes away. It might come back in an hour or a few days. Lately, it's been there every day. I have had four mechanics, including two Ford dealers, look at it and none of them can figure out what's wrong. Ford couldn't even generate any error codes. I've had a new fuel pump put in the car. I put in a new DIS myself. It's a Borg-Warner part, not a Ford part. The latest mechanic I have working on it got a 219 error code and replaced the spout circuit. All to no avail.
In addition, the car occasionally loses the tach while the car continues to run. The tach just sits at zero for a while but the car could be doing 50 mph! After a while the tach will come back and the car will run fine. Check engine light comes on occasionally.
