I have a '97 4.2lt. Now for the problems:
1. The check engine light always comes on for a few days then turns off again.

2. When I drive the truck to the store or anywhere at all it almost stalls when it is idling. When it does this I turn it off and restart it and it is fine. It has stalled many times!!!

3. Black around the tail pipe.

4. Now its leaking oil!!!

I have had it to the dealer 3 times and they are telling me that they can't find anything wrong with it !!! Now I just hit 45000 miles and is out of warranty. I can tell you this pisses me off quite a bit. Has anybody had any of the same problems, and if so were they fixed and how? Ill never buy another Ford V6 again!!! I have the automatic tranny - it sucks!! It barely pulls itself up my damn driveway.
It is getting easier to talk bad about my truck - but I still love it. I just want all th Bullsh*t fixed.

Ed
'97 4.2 Auto exracab
265 75 16
catback system
Airtornado
K&N system
3:55 (wish it had 4:11 - then it would get out of its own way)
Superchip