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    help! weird power loss 95 gt with a 5.0

    It's the Profile Ignition Pickup, and it's located in your distributor. I had to replace mine because it came loose, and was moving around inside, causing the car to run rough when it warmed up. It wasn't moving much, but any movement is too much. To change it, you need to remove the entire...
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    Occasionally stalling when hot

    Hey there! For as long as I can remember, I've had a very intermittant stalling issue with my 2000 GT Convertible. I can't remember the problem ever occuring when cold, only when it's hot during a good run, and I'm stoppped at a traffic light or braking. Most of the archived posts point...
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    Another Harmonic Balancer Question

    Well, the job's done, and it went VERY smoothly! About 4 hrs, including a lunch break! The biggest pain in the butt was replacing the seal that the crank and balancer pass through. I ended up fabricating a tool out of two small pieces of 2x4 so that I could apply pressure to all sides of the...
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    Another Harmonic Balancer Question

    Nice write up! I searched the site before posting, but that never came up! Having read it, I'm even more confident that there won't be any surprises now. I did find some not so pleasant reviews of the Dorman HB after I started this thread, but I figure if the original part can last 15+ years, I...
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    Another Harmonic Balancer Question

    I was just getting ready to remove and replace the Harmonic Balancer on my 95GT. It's a straight forward swap, though I was just paging through my Haynes manual to find torque specs, etc, and I read their blurb about R&R of the balancer. I understand that the crank pulley should be replaced...
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    94 Cobra Hesitation/Stumble upon acceleration

    Here's a link to the article on the dizzy rebuild. I found it in an archived Stangnet post. Just noticed that the writer mentioned that it was squealling "like a hog" when the distributor failed, and he needed to replace the entire dizzy. Maybe this is the howling you're hearing. Anyway, the...
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    94 Cobra Hesitation/Stumble upon acceleration

    Sounds like a distributor problem to me, specifically a loose Profile Ignition Pickup (PIP) sensor. I've had this surging problem on my 95 GT too, and traced it to a loose PIP. Ironically, the PIP on my car was a cobra part, as the GT part wasn't even similar. It started as an intermittant...
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    Cooling problems

    I am going through a similar situation. The temp guage always used to read at the "O" no matter what. Lately, it bounces around from "O" to "A", and at that point the fan goes to high speed, and the temp goes down slightly, and the fan shuts off. I replaced the rad with a new unit because it was...
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    Rear suspension creak

    I thought I had a rear suspension creak, but turned out to be that the e-brake cable was rubbing against the chassis where it comes out of the chassis just in front of the rear wheels. A simple adjustment fixed that up. I'd check for that first because it doesn't cost a cent, and takes 10 mins.
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    Low Coolant Light

    I had the same thing happen with mine. Light started to come on from time to time, then stayed on all of the time. I cleaned the sensor contacts shown in the photos above, with no luck. Fluid was always full. I picked up a used one at a local wrecker for $20, put it in, and works great...
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    Another Power Steering Question

    Hello everyone, I've been searching the forum for information on power steering problems, but nobody has addressed the exact problem I'm having. I started noticing drops of P/S fluid on the floor of my garage a few weeks back. I didn't think much of it, but I just had to add a bit of fluid...
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    Reverse Light Switch on 5-Speed

    I've read several posts about troubleshooting non-functional reverse lights, but none of them have mentioned if there's anything tricky to changing out the switch on the side of the tranny. I bought the new switch, and was preparing to change it out, but I noticed that the new part has a...
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    1995 GT OBD2 Problem

    That pretty much wraps it up then... That's not just a START...that pretty much sums up the problem. I realize that OBD2 oficially started in '96, but I had read somewhere that Ford and one other manufacturer started a couple of years earlier. So, when I saw the port under the dash, I...
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    1995 GT OBD2 Problem

    I've searched the site, and read through all of the current threads, and I can't find any reference to the OBD problem I'm having with my '95 GT...so forgive me if this has been addressed already. I bought a scanner to find out what was causing the CEL on my wife's car, and after solving that...
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    Slop in driveshaft....U joint?

    A bad U-Joint CAN cause noise at high speed I just replaced the U-Joints in my car because I was getting what I can best describe as a whining or humming noise in the 65-80MPH range. It sounded like it was coming from the transmission, fortunately it wasn't. Above or below these speeds, it...
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    TFI = Thick Film Ignition...what is it?

    I just resolved a similar problem with stumbling in my 1995 GT. You can find the thread at the bottom of this page, or on the next page. In my case, it was a bad P.I.P. inside the distributor. It would be worth your while to check out the PIP. It's also cheaper to replace if that's your...
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    95GT Ignition Issue - Stumbles when cold

    There was alot of metal particles in the bowl. I vacuumed them all out weeks ago when I first suspected the distributor. The problem persisted. The distributor shaft wasn't loose at all...it was very firm, yet the PIP was VERY loose. Maybe 1/8th to 1/4 inch of deflection. You could feel it...
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    95GT Ignition Issue - Stumbles when cold

    Good info, thanks! I will certainly check out the two temp sensors, but I don't believe they're at the root of the problem. The engine gets up to full temp within 10 mins, and I have the problem for at least twice that long. I don't have a code reader, but I'm sure I borrow one. The...
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    95GT Ignition Issue - Stumbles when cold

    I'm looking for some advice from you 5.0 guys out there, with an ignition issue on my 95GT. The car has aprox 70K miles on the clock, it's a 5 speed, and I had the car tuned this spring to solve an engine ping problem. New wires, cap, rotor, and fuel filter. The IAT and MAF sensors both...
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