Fordgirl01
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I have an 04 Navigator I’ve had for about 6 months. It has started acting up the past few weeks. At first I thought it was transmission related as it showed up driving in a hilly area one day. It acted like it didn’t know what gear it wanted to be in-several times it crawled up a hill until it finally decided to downshift. It didn’t really seem to slip, although it always feels funny to me how sneakily and smoothly it shifts normally. It would at times downshift only to shift back up seconds later. It was very hit and miss. Sometimes it would act totally fine, the next hill it acted like it was not going to make it.
So since that day, it seems more like a misfire, but it hadn’t thrown any codes. It was randomly spitting and sputtering with any load against it, but not always. It would also seem like the engine cuts out for a split second for no apparent reason. It does this sporadically just idling thought town or at cruising speed without a load against it. It hadn’t acted up consistently for any certain reason so it’s hard for me to describe what is going on.
It has been getting worse and today on my way home it finally seems like a misfire. I have dealt with a misfire 3 times (different vehicles but all Expys or Navis) and have never had one take this long to toss out a code. Usually they act up and within a day or two the CEL comes on.
So today as I was pulling a pretty good hill coing home from work, it was shuddering and skipping, it finally downshifted (I heard a pop that I also felt with my left foot-seems to have originated from that area under the vehicle) and the CEL came on flashing (my other misfires caused the light to come on but it did not immediately flash). I had my scanner with me so I pulled over and plugged it in (misfire cylinder 8 “pending”). I looked at the dash and the engine light was off. I limped it home (probably 10-15 miles) and the CEL never came back on. It still ran like it had a misfire though.
The MPG has not decreased like my other misfire episodes. It also still does the cutting out thing for a split second which I have never experienced before.
Also-maybe related, maybe not......lately I often have to hit the shifter with the heel of my hand (it has a floor shifter) or the ignition won’t work. Another new oddity....when I put it in drive to leave work today, it flat out quit-no stall like it was starved for fuel, just totally quit. I slipped it in neutral and it started back up and did not quit again.
Could this be some electrical issue related to the floor shift? Will a true misfire allow the CEL to go from flashing to off?
Where do I start?! I know the obvious is the plug and coil on #8 (of course it couldn’t be #5 or #4). I was just hoping maybe this is some sort of common sensor issue on the shifter or something simpler than that plug and coil that someone has encountered (hey, a gal can wish-right)!
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So since that day, it seems more like a misfire, but it hadn’t thrown any codes. It was randomly spitting and sputtering with any load against it, but not always. It would also seem like the engine cuts out for a split second for no apparent reason. It does this sporadically just idling thought town or at cruising speed without a load against it. It hadn’t acted up consistently for any certain reason so it’s hard for me to describe what is going on.
It has been getting worse and today on my way home it finally seems like a misfire. I have dealt with a misfire 3 times (different vehicles but all Expys or Navis) and have never had one take this long to toss out a code. Usually they act up and within a day or two the CEL comes on.
So today as I was pulling a pretty good hill coing home from work, it was shuddering and skipping, it finally downshifted (I heard a pop that I also felt with my left foot-seems to have originated from that area under the vehicle) and the CEL came on flashing (my other misfires caused the light to come on but it did not immediately flash). I had my scanner with me so I pulled over and plugged it in (misfire cylinder 8 “pending”). I looked at the dash and the engine light was off. I limped it home (probably 10-15 miles) and the CEL never came back on. It still ran like it had a misfire though.
The MPG has not decreased like my other misfire episodes. It also still does the cutting out thing for a split second which I have never experienced before.
Also-maybe related, maybe not......lately I often have to hit the shifter with the heel of my hand (it has a floor shifter) or the ignition won’t work. Another new oddity....when I put it in drive to leave work today, it flat out quit-no stall like it was starved for fuel, just totally quit. I slipped it in neutral and it started back up and did not quit again.
Could this be some electrical issue related to the floor shift? Will a true misfire allow the CEL to go from flashing to off?
Where do I start?! I know the obvious is the plug and coil on #8 (of course it couldn’t be #5 or #4). I was just hoping maybe this is some sort of common sensor issue on the shifter or something simpler than that plug and coil that someone has encountered (hey, a gal can wish-right)!
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