haydenm315
SHO Member
It's been a while since I've peeped in around here. I guess that's a good thing considering my car has been reliable... well somewhat reliable. Unfortunately I'm running into multiple problems now that need addressing.
Here is a little background info. I have a 93 MTX with 136k miles. I did my last maintenance with plugs,wires,gaskets,belts, lash, water pump, cps, tps, and performance y-pipe, to name a few about 45k miles ago. I used all motorcraft parts.
My engine performance parts include the following, k&n filter/ outer airbox removed, BBB's, pp ypipe w cats, shoshop 2.5" catback, port matched head intake openings, extrude honed intake runners, and shoshop stage II cams.
My problems are listed below.
First of all.... no codes..... KOER,KOEO,Cylinder Balance Test. I drive 55 miles a day mostly highway and still get around 415 miles a tank before I'm starting to cut it close.
1. VAPS - has given up the goat. Steering is always loosey goosey. It came back once last week, but went away again. I ran some diagnostic tests and was able to verify that the actuator was loosening/tightening the steering during the first portion of the diagnostic test, however the actuator wasn't moving during the sweep portion of the test.
2. My cruise control is not functioning. It worked everytime I tried it up until this morning. I admit I never use it unless testing. It worked last week when I was trying to diagnose the culprit. It would not activate this morning.
3. My car has problems coming down to idle when you disengage the tranny while moving. It will stall sometimes.. .more often when the ac is on. The revs don't stay up liek they should. THis has always been a problem, but seems to have gotten worse. It used to never do it with the ac off. THis morning it was doing it with the a/c off. Idle reset has never solved this problem. Strangely enough it seemed to be working last week in terms of holding the revs up until you stop, but it has since stopped working.
4. I'm failing emissions due to 3x the allowed HC level. I believe the graph shows me having higher than normal levels of HC and CO at idle and while cruising. I have noticed a misfire in my car when I start it up when it's real damp and has been raining. Last night I noticed a plug wire who's boot was a bit messed up with the wire exposed. I think this may be part of the problem here. I am also showing what I believe is higher than normal levels of hc/co/co2 during decel. If the VSS is bad, this might explain this part of my emissions.
I am leaning towards my VSS or speed sensor giving up. I think it has a hand in most of my problems. I also think the plug wire is starting to cause problems. I'm going to pull the plug on that cylinder and see what it looks like. For $20 I'm going to do the VSS as well. Anyone have suggestions?
Here is a little background info. I have a 93 MTX with 136k miles. I did my last maintenance with plugs,wires,gaskets,belts, lash, water pump, cps, tps, and performance y-pipe, to name a few about 45k miles ago. I used all motorcraft parts.
My engine performance parts include the following, k&n filter/ outer airbox removed, BBB's, pp ypipe w cats, shoshop 2.5" catback, port matched head intake openings, extrude honed intake runners, and shoshop stage II cams.
My problems are listed below.
First of all.... no codes..... KOER,KOEO,Cylinder Balance Test. I drive 55 miles a day mostly highway and still get around 415 miles a tank before I'm starting to cut it close.
1. VAPS - has given up the goat. Steering is always loosey goosey. It came back once last week, but went away again. I ran some diagnostic tests and was able to verify that the actuator was loosening/tightening the steering during the first portion of the diagnostic test, however the actuator wasn't moving during the sweep portion of the test.
2. My cruise control is not functioning. It worked everytime I tried it up until this morning. I admit I never use it unless testing. It worked last week when I was trying to diagnose the culprit. It would not activate this morning.
3. My car has problems coming down to idle when you disengage the tranny while moving. It will stall sometimes.. .more often when the ac is on. The revs don't stay up liek they should. THis has always been a problem, but seems to have gotten worse. It used to never do it with the ac off. THis morning it was doing it with the a/c off. Idle reset has never solved this problem. Strangely enough it seemed to be working last week in terms of holding the revs up until you stop, but it has since stopped working.
4. I'm failing emissions due to 3x the allowed HC level. I believe the graph shows me having higher than normal levels of HC and CO at idle and while cruising. I have noticed a misfire in my car when I start it up when it's real damp and has been raining. Last night I noticed a plug wire who's boot was a bit messed up with the wire exposed. I think this may be part of the problem here. I am also showing what I believe is higher than normal levels of hc/co/co2 during decel. If the VSS is bad, this might explain this part of my emissions.
I am leaning towards my VSS or speed sensor giving up. I think it has a hand in most of my problems. I also think the plug wire is starting to cause problems. I'm going to pull the plug on that cylinder and see what it looks like. For $20 I'm going to do the VSS as well. Anyone have suggestions?
I'm guessing this is my problem down low where I'm probably slightly missing and failing emissions. I expected to notice a difference on that plug since the wire was messed up some but it wasn't the case. I think it's hard to tell because my idle is lopey from cams anyways. Would I gain anything by pulling any of the rears?
