Crazy Trip

[Chris Rice]

My wife to the ST up to Lake Powell pulling the Jetski's on Friday with her younger sister and bunch of her friends and my father in law, and I went up Sat night after work. Someone broke the passenger front door handle on the ST, and didnt bother to say anything, that bugs the crap out of me! So I have to fix that...anyone know how?



Then on the way home I had the cruise control on and OD turned off, because of the big fire in Flagstaff we were detoured through the Grand Canyon, going up one of the hills my Cruise just poped off and I slowed way down...I couldnt go over 55mph and it was like the truck had no power. It seemed like it would jump from 3rd gear into OD....Going down hill I could get the trucks speed up, but going up hill it wouldn't get over 4K rpm's or over like 55mph or so...



Then after we stopped for a bathroom break everything seemed fine and I had power up hills again and everything for the remaining 3hr trip home, the truck seems to running perfect now and the check engine light never came on.... Any ideas on what may have happened and should I be worried?

 

[EddieS'04]

Our tracs get electrical gremlins from weak batteries. Have it checked. Also some of us have had the gremlin anyway. A stop and restart will reboot the computer.

 

[rob chaw]

Someone broke the passenger front door handle on the ST, and didnt bother to say anything, that bugs the crap out of me!

DOUBLE THAT. but it happens all the time.



Depends on what is broken. Mine broke at the inside handle on the plastic. So the whole door needed to be taken off then replace with a NEW one. When i did the the NEW one broke too. So i said F-ck it. If the fools can't open a door in the back with out breaking anything then i don't need to be replacing door handles every time i take people around.



rob

 

[Jerry Abson 3]

Lake Powell! good times remembered! Sucks about Flagstaff burning down. Washington state finally got some sun, but was missing the weather down there for awhile!



And +1 to the electrical gremlin. Happened to me once, remembered hearing about this, stopped at a rest stop and checked battery, loose cable. Go figure.

 

[Kevin Palmer]

In the late 90's and early 200's, I know for sure that the atmospheric pressure reading was done at start up and it would not take another reading until your turned of the key and then started the engine back up.



What would happen was, lets say you were at 500 feet above sea level, the EMC/PCM would see this and adjust the fuel volume and assume you never went above or below the 500 foot mark within a reasonable margin.



So, if you took off at 500 feet but then went to the mountains, the fuel mixture would be way off and the vehicle ran poorly. Normally lost power and performance.



Simply by turning the key off, waiting a few seconds and starting it back up solved the issue.



GM had the same issue but they built into the ECM a recheck cycle. I do not know if Ford did this but I would think they have at this point, but who knows...

 

[Chris Rice]

Ok...I was hoping it wasnt a big problem and just some gremlin that would go away. Still seems to be doing good. The door handle is the outside handle and the plastic handle just snapped at the peice where it goes into the door...if that makes any sense.

 

[Doctor CAD]

Exactly the symptom I had right before the tranny took a poop.



Couldn't get rolling very well, even stalled once. Half hour later everything was fine.



Pan full of metal and burned clutch parts...



Get to a tranny shop ASAP.

 

[Chris Rice]

Dang...that sucks...Guess I'll be going by to have it checked out.