If your engine light is on take it to auto zone or advance auto they will plug into the engine it will then send a code and tell you what you need to do hope it works out.
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it could be a blocked fuel filter ,a bad idle solinoid , a week fuel pump, a bad throttle position sensor ,dirty air filter , If car is not running ruff before putting in gear . if running ruff all the time it could be bad plugs,injectors coils plug wires or any of the above. check for a vaccume leak it is a # 1 problem with windstars. if this was helpful please leave good feed back
I would suggest you start with the basics. Check your wiring on your spark plugs to ensure they are in the right order. If you can grab an OBD scanner, I'd start with it as well. It can reveal many mysteries. Your running rough usually sounds like a timing issue. If there are over 100,000 miles on the vehicle, the timimg belt will be suspect.
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Sounds like your fuel pump starting to die. It is not getting enough gas under heavy acceleration which is 100% fuel pump slowly dying. At start up it might not be building up enough fuel pressure to feed the system but the shot of ether and engine cranking helps pressure the system just enough for the fuel pump to trickle the gas and run the engine at low rpms.
sometimes when you buy cheap remanufactured parts you get rough running and dimming lights from voltage fluxuations.i always had good luck with new parts or factory stuff from low mileage wrecks.
check Oxygen sensor and associated wires. if you have access to a scan tool watch the sensor signal. it should resemble a smooth wave at idle with engine warm, if its anything else you need a new sensor.
It could be one of three things. EGR valve, IAC (Idle Air Control), and last your cat being clogged. Not likely to be a clogged converter unless you have but the Ford through some pretty good hell. I would go with the EGR and IAC first and check those out first then move on from there
might be the coil pack is bad, wires, plugs, o2 sensors, dirty injectors, catalic converter ( only if you smell rotten eggs ) . cylinders are misfireing.
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