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TiTo35
03-24-2008, 07:11 PM
My moms has a 98...99 Ford Contour with 82k on the clock. Her check engine light STAYS on and she took it to her trusted mechanic. He said she needs a MAF, she tells me, I said I put one on about 3-5 years ago...She said well the mechanic cleaned the old one and the car is acting right thus far...BUT at first it was doing what a fellow members MM is doing idle, then cut off, but when you drive it, its "fine." My initial question is...Do MAF go bad that often? My second question is...that car gives off an odor (foul), is the MAF related to that?
Aren Jay
03-25-2008, 08:04 PM
Does it stall at low speed?
2,4shofast
03-25-2008, 08:20 PM
The cats could be clogged and need to be replaced. Normally when you get a foul odor that is the culprit. My .02
magindat
03-26-2008, 05:44 AM
A vacuum line is likely dried and cracked and sucking unmetered air.

Helped an old guy in at the Bennett auto parts one afternoon with his contour. He'd spent hundreds at the mechanic. I saw the line, fixed it in 10 min for 6 bucks worth of parts!
TiTo35
03-26-2008, 02:18 PM
Does it stall at low speed?

No, it drives fine...
TiTo35
03-26-2008, 02:19 PM
A vacuum line is likely dried and cracked and sucking unmetered air.

Helped an old guy in at the Bennett auto parts one afternoon with his contour. He'd spent hundreds at the mechanic. I saw the line, fixed it in 10 min for 6 bucks worth of parts!

Tell me more please...
Local Boy
03-26-2008, 02:49 PM
You say if gives off a "bad odor"...Does it smell like rotten eggs? or kind of like sulfer?

ALOHA
TiTo35
03-26-2008, 03:16 PM
You say if gives off a "bad odor"...Does it smell like rotten eggs? or kind of like sulfer?

ALOHA
Rotten eggs...I thought it was only on the inside....but I smell it the other day walking away from the car...:puke:
Local Boy
03-26-2008, 03:48 PM
If that is the case, look at the charcol canister that is used to collect fuel vapors...There are vacum lines that connect it...That's where , I would bet, your problem is...If all lines are good...Change the canister, probably has a crack in it...

Good luck...

ALOHA
TiTo35
03-26-2008, 05:52 PM
First off I would like to thank the Academy, then Id like to thank my mother...and last but not least id like to thank the MM.net community for getting me to where I am today!!!


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