Rough idle

Asked by Willy Jul 28, 2018 at 02:11 AM about the 1995 Ford F-150 XLT Stepside SB

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

My truck is a 95 F150 when I start it  it will
idle great when I take off it cuts out and
sputters and sometimes it runs perfect and
other times I will turn on a/c and it gets
worse after using a/c I will turn truck off and
it won't start and when it does it idles high
then dies

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Brianator answered 5 years ago

Unplug the MAF and see if the problem goes away, the engine will almost stall (or stall) and should recover quickly

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