5.4L just quit running

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Old 09-18-1999 | 11:13 PM
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Question 5.4L just quit running

Weird thing happened to me today...I stopped at a railroad crossing to look both ways...and all of a sudden..my engine just quit without any warning and all of the idiot lights came on. I put it in Park...and started it right back up..but there was no indication, hesitation or burp of any kind. I drove it the rest of the afternoon without any problems..but that was the first time it ever did that. I had 3/4 of a tank of gas.
Maybe it is mad that it is getting traded in soon???
 
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Old 09-19-1999 | 08:56 AM
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My Explorer did the same thing about two weeks ago, I checked the air filter, clogged solid at 15,000 miles. I figured that must be it. Don't know where all of the dirt came from. I changed it and no problems since, it needed it.
 
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Old 09-19-1999 | 11:15 PM
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You know, I have heard of these things happening.

Oh, wait that was "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Sorry!
 
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Old 09-20-1999 | 01:35 AM
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I replaced the air filter recently..so I don't think it was that...or maybe it is... I had a K&N filter in there for a month or so..and recently took it out and replaced it with a regular paper filter.(I removed the K & N to save it for the 2000 I ordered).
Maybe the computer needed to adjust itself after being use to the higher flow??
The truck is running fine..but it sure was something for it to just quit suddenly.
 
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Old 09-20-1999 | 07:33 AM
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Dustoff, one thing I forgot to mention about the time my Explorer did it, it was very hot and I was approaching a red light that turned green just as I got to the light and I tried accelerate. That is when it stalled. The heat index that day was like 110 degrees. That along with the air filter seemed to be a good explaination. It has never done it again.
 




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