{"id":50735,"date":"2017-02-23T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=50735"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:29:25","slug":"ford-fairmount-ed-1993-running-rough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/02\/ford-fairmount-ed-1993-running-rough","title":{"rendered":"Ford Fairmount ed 1993 running very rough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50910\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1993-ford-faimount.jpg\" alt=\"1993 Ford Fairmount\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1993-ford-faimount.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1993-ford-faimount-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>My car running very rough. I&#8217;ve changed the spark plugs not the plugs. Gave a oil change not the the filter. Cleaned the idle air control. Car was running a bit better. The car will rev high then low like its gonna stall (sometimes it does) . it also backfires when reving randomly.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like the <a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/iac-idle-air-control.html\">IAC &#8211; Idle Air Control<\/a> is hunting. This typically happens when there is a vacuum leak. It can also happen with no vacuum leak except internal in the IAC.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what you mean by &#8220;changed the spark plugs not the plugs&#8221;. Did the plugs get changed or not?<\/p>\n<h4>Check Engine Light On<\/h4>\n<p>Since your vehicle is older than 1996 you can perform computer diagnostics without the ned for a scan tool. This will pull any stored <a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/diagnostictroblecodes.html\">diagnostic trouble code<\/a> from the computer. Any code stored will help guide us in the right direction. Post all codes in the comments for further information on them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/diagnostictroblecodes7.html\">How to pull Ford codes without a scan tool<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My car running very rough. I&#8217;ve changed the spark plugs not the plugs. Gave a oil change not the the filter. Cleaned the idle air control. Car was running a bit better. The car will rev high then low like its gonna stall (sometimes it does) . it also backfires when reving randomly. RESPONSE Sounds&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/02\/ford-fairmount-ed-1993-running-rough\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ford Fairmount ed 1993 running very rough<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[11406],"class_list":["post-50735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-ford","tag-fairmount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}