Ok everyone knows about the hidden feature in the odmeter where you can do a dyonstic check well i get DTC 5284- which is Oil Pressure Switch Failure, so the mustang site says. So is the stangs computers given the same codes as the Lightnings computer. Also this morning when I would go to start the truck up It would not on the 1st or sometimes 2nd time, also when this happens the truck dosent high rev, the start up rev is no about 800rpms. The damn thing is that it dosent do it ala the time. Also I can have the a/c on and when i turn the lights on or push on the window buttons the insterment cluster dims, air dims, and RPMS also dim. Where it ideals at 740-780rpms normal, it drops to about 620-680 when it mess` up. So what is the deal?
thanks in advance
Justen


[This message has been edited by Burninout101 (edited 06-02-2000).]

 

Ok now im getting pisst. Went out to run some stuff intown town about 30 miles round trip, get back do the odemeter thing again and this time i get dtcD262 Missing SCP message. Ok guys is it pick and **** of justen day, anyone is there a self destruct button on these trucks. Any Techs out Please help, SAL

 

You mention that everybody knows about the odometer diagnostics display. I never heard of it. How is it accessed, and how is it decoded?

Thanks

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Sandy (Spider) Scott
Skydive69@msn.com
Apopka, Florida
99 White Lightning #2091 DOB 6-8-99
Airaid air box & Superchip

 

I think you should be happy you have a digital speedometer and tach.Id leave the rest up to the techs! When you have warrantee,why get agrevated?

 

Skydive69
Heres the link for the page http://www.mustangworld.com/ourpics/fcar/dtcodes.htm

 

Use your warrantee while you got it! I would not even try to mess with it. Since your problem is kinda exclusive, be sure to get everything documented at the dealership so you can help us out in the future. Hope you get it fixed soon. Later!

 

Justen,

What a mess. Have you called the dealership? *Did they tell you to stop playing with the diagnostic check system?* Hehe JK I would call the dealership and have them take it in and run the check system and go over the fail codes with you.

CA

 

Burninout101,

A good place to start with this sort of thing is chip inspection (if you have one). Remove the chip and try the startup. If it is ok, then you'll need to clean the contacts on the CPU's card edge connector.

If you don't have a chip and have never had the computer out, then check the battery connections; could be a problem there.

Also, there have been reports of coolant leaks over and onto the #4 coil pack... these are almost undetectable but if there can cause the engine to misbehave, buck, overrev, etc.

O2 sensor is another possibility, if a lot of intercooler coolant has been moving through the engine... oops. Check your intercooler coolant level just in case.

Hope this helps.

-tvw

 

The truck has never had a chip in it.
Battery connections are fine.
Coolant level is the same as when i bought it.
Could not see coolant on the #4 coil pack.
thanks tvm for trying to help

 

BURNINOUT101- Sorry I don't have much background with these ford engine. But what you might have is a leaking fuel injector when you shut the engine off the injector bleads the pressure off the fuel rail. I know Chevy engine more the Ford but, I'm learning more about these 5.4L every day.

Dave

 

Other than you scrolling through the odometer looking for problems has there been anything noticebly wrong?

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Yeah theres a lot of other crap going wrong
1. Runs HOT anywhere from a neddle to a needleand a half hotter ten normal.
2. When at a stop light or just idealing the rpms go up and down sometimes the truck feels like its going to quit.
3. On 2-3 shift it stubbles.
4. I can start the truck up and after it is started I hear a grind adn a pop sound come from the converter/trany area.
5.The truck has lost alot of power over 5k miles i.e. from 1.5k-7k miles the truck would lit the tires up all the way threw 1st and chirp into 2nd. From about 8K-11K it has lost power big time Im luck if I can spin 15 feet and there is no type of rubber marks.
6.It vibrates more then it did in park.

 

Oh the dealer here said its normal. The dealers do not have a good reputation for tere service department down here. Im ging to a dealer about 2 hours awake in the begining of next week.

 

Hi Justen!
Just give it up. Sell the truck and by the Dodge Dakota. We will not laugh in your face only behind your back. That is the way things are done. All kidding aside send me e-mail or do the IM thing.

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BABolt
SVT#290

 

Hey Burnout is your dealer SVT and have a certified SVT mechanic there, I was told that it is best to get service from authorized SVT dealers, although any Ford dealer should be able to service.