MiKa Donating Members 4,243 Member For: 18y 6m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 02/02/08 02:06 AM Share Posted 02/02/08 02:06 AM It all started on Friday.. On thursday I had valve springs and fuel pump fitted by Nizpro.. They showed me my old fuel pump and it had rust on it? They said that the car might run like a pig cause their might be some rust/dirt in the fuel...The next day, the car when coming to a stop the revs dropped and the car stalled... Its happend a few times...This problem has happened about a year ago, I cleaned the throttle body and that seemed to fix it then... I've done the search and some one suggested to plant my foot on the accelerator and crank the car, this would reset some sensor or something... I tried that and the problem is still present...This car is my daily driver and its getting dangerous with the car stalling in the middle of the road all the time... I need a quick fix.. The car is out of warranty also.. Could it be the TPS?? Or something else???I'll give the throttle body another clean to see if that helps....Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senna_T Forged Member Lifetime Members 15,818 Member For: 18y 24d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 02/02/08 02:08 AM Share Posted 02/02/08 02:08 AM see how you go with the throttle body clean, as the guys at Nizpro said, it will run like a dog if there is crap in the fuel, try and use it up and re-fill at a busy servo, this might give you a little cleaner fuel and could help the problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCRIBR Yaris member Member 4,486 Member For: 18y 8m 11d Gender: Male Posted 02/02/08 02:14 AM Share Posted 02/02/08 02:14 AM this might be a stupid question, but did you change the fuel filter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKa Donating Members 4,243 Member For: 18y 6m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 02/02/08 03:24 AM Author Share Posted 02/02/08 03:24 AM this might be a stupid question, but did you change the fuel filter?I dunno if they did... Should they have, or should I have asked them to? Hmmm the car is going into HP-F this wednesday for an unrelated problem and a service so I'll get them to change the filter...In searching the past threads on pretty much the same problem, I read somewhere that this can be tune related, an idle setting when the car is tuned can be altered.. The person in the particular thread said his idle was set at 450rpm, he had problems and then got it raised to 500 or 550 rpm by his tuner, and the problem was gone... Then I read about TPS, drilling holes in the throttle body, changing whole throttle bodys etc...There is no easy fix, just a few options to look for I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKa Donating Members 4,243 Member For: 18y 6m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 02/02/08 07:39 AM Author Share Posted 02/02/08 07:39 AM Just cleaned the throttle body, inside the crossover and piping leading to the TB (as far as I could get my fingers into it) Wasnt too dirty, had a bit of crud in the TB and some on the rubber joiner that connects it to the crossover and a lil bit of oil on that bit of piping...Took it for a spin, didnt stall, revs did come as low as 500rpm and hovered around there... The car wasnt really that hot (that's when it really happens) I'll see after a longer trip tonight and see if it rears its head up again... I still think it will hapen again, I wanst too impressed on the lil drive I took... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKa Donating Members 4,243 Member For: 18y 6m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 02/02/08 02:24 PM Author Share Posted 02/02/08 02:24 PM I was right... The car stalled twice tonight...Can Ford check the computor for error codes whilst I still have my tune in?The next thing to look at is the TPS...anyone know what a new TPS sensor is worth from ford? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKa Donating Members 4,243 Member For: 18y 6m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 03/02/08 03:17 AM Author Share Posted 03/02/08 03:17 AM Tried something else today... I flashed the car back to standard, took it for a drive and whatta you know... Not the slightest sign of stalling or even revs dropping.. This leads me to believe that its got something to do with the tune perhaps...I read a post by robbin yesterday about rev settings in the tune, maybe that's whats happening.. But why happen mid last year, I clean the TB, its gone, and now its back. Flash back to standard and now its gone?? Im gonna leave the stock tune on till wednesday when HP-F take a look at it to see if todays drive was a 'fluke'...Cheers Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIP'S_PATCHES! Donating Members 337 Member For: 17y 10m 25d Gender: Male Posted 03/02/08 03:35 AM Share Posted 03/02/08 03:35 AM (edited) mika, my car has the same problem at this present time, I have worked out that it is the throttle body TPS. ive checked and fixed any other cause, the TPS is the only remaining item I havent fixed, so im 99.9% confident its the TPS. but in your case, luckily its fixed! Edited 03/02/08 03:36 AM by RIP'S_PATCHES! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKa Donating Members 4,243 Member For: 18y 6m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 03/02/08 05:19 AM Author Share Posted 03/02/08 05:19 AM Hey PATCHES! Let me know how it goes... If my car still stalls with the factory tune, than im probably lookin at the TPS also...Is you car still under warranty? If not do you know how much it will be to replace??Cheers Mike.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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