Ford Focus: ford se focus 2000 wagon stalls

On 12 Jan 2005 18:01:21 -0800, "bargain" <COM> wrote:
 


I've never seen a Focus fuel pickup, but it sounds to me like that is
where your problem is. It sounds like there is a hole or something up
above the bottom pickup and when your tank starts to empty, the fuel
pump starts pumping air. My other thought would be that the bottom of
the pickup itself has come loose and is floating up and starts sucking
air when the tank level starts coming down. Granting, I'm just
guessing here as I've never seen these parts on the Focus to even know
what the in-tank parts look like.

Matt
Focus owner

"bargain" <COM> wrote
 

You don't give mileage or when the last time it's had a major tune-up,
including (especially in this case) a complete cleaning of the intake plenum
area and injectors.

Since the problem is exaggerated by the lack of fuel in the tank I
ruled out the normal routine tune up options, plugs, cap, wires etc.
I bought the car at 32k miles and it now has 45K miles on it and I
have not done anything to it besides change the oil and replace the
tires and add a can or two of fuel injector cleaner.
The car runs near perfect (with a full to around a 1/2 full tank)
then after that I cross my fingers especially as the tank reaches 1/4
full.
Today, wed it started stalling at 1/8 of a tank. I thought it might be
OK as I just replaced the fuel filter and it hasn't got that low
without stalling in the last 2 weeks.

I believe it's your fuel pump assembly. There is a recall on that, with the
symptoms you describe. The letter says "Although the symptoms noted above
can occur under a variety of driving conditions, they are most likely to
occur when there is less than one-quarter tank of fuel and/or when the
driver is attempting to accelerate while making a right turn maneuver (such
as entering a highway through a cloverleaf) or driving uphill." This recall
covers 200 and 2001 vehicles.

It is program 03N01.

Ron

Your Fuel pump is going, it should be covered under the 10 year warranty by
Ford.