i need some help

well its a long story but somebody got to playing around with the fuses under the hood. the car starts and everything is fine all but the air ride. the air ride fuse/relay looks to be in the right spot according to the lil chart on the underside of the fuse box cover.the switch in the trunk is on.the air ride is/was fully functional before the fuses got messed with.

if i could get a diagram/chart of the way the fuse box is looking at it strait forward that would be wonderful, because i cannot read the damn chart and match it all to the fuses. i get close but theres still some confusion and i don't wanna f*** anything up more than it is, i've looked all over and cannot find a strait forward diagram. i tried googling it but all you really get is shit for windstars and every other car/part but a 97 tc. f*ck google.

Hi Jason


Just got back form Detroit Yesterday, nice and warm up there. Enjoyed a few days of all that snow before it melted.


I can feel your pain with those relays. I just fixed a car tonight that has HAD an intermittent fuel pump relay for 3 years. Finally found it to be bad and smashed it with a hammer, felt damn good.

The sequence of the relays on the passenger side is. Horn, air sus, abs, spare. Starting from the outside of the fender and working your way in. See page 263 in your owners Manuel. Dumb ass ford says fuse info is on page 191 they made a mistake.

Test your horn to see if that is working, then use the horn relay in the next slot. See where I'm going with this. I found it helpful to break the black plastic cap off of one so I could use it as a test relay. You can see the contacts moving inside. Hopefully it's a bad relay and not a bad pump. I do have several good pumps if you need one.

well its been fixed. funny thing was i was searchin all over the damn place for a diagram of the fuse box, who would have ever thought to look in the manual lol? well it didn't come to me to check the manual partly because i had it out of the car (get bored after oil changes) and didn't remember i had it in the tool box. turned out somehow fuse values had gotten mixed up. the air ride fuse was blown, replaced it, problem fixed. all the relays were good.

yea we had a nice 3 day stretch i think it might have got up to 37 haha. i'll have to remember the "break the black casing" trick, thats a good 1. how bout a 10 disc cd changer, got any of them layin around?

No Disc changers for Ford cars. Glad you got it fixed Jason.