Heat soaked engine issues are from the carburetor era. Pretty common for 66-77 with v8 engine and headers.
False. After starting an engine that's hot the IAT sensor will read near 200. The ecu will pull a bunch of tip in timing which will cause a sluggish throttle.
Like I said, this isn't a EFI issue, if so nobody could live in the south or southwest. Could it happen? Yes, does it happen rarely if ever, it's a non-issue for EFI engines or they would be dying everywhere. This is why folks switch from carb to efi when rock crawling. Not only does efi eliminate fuel delivery at extreme angles, it eliminates heat soak when crawling in 100⁰ temps at slow speeds with no air movement.
Why does it matter?
Drove my ‘89 to Utah from Texas back in the early 90’s, died at every summit, let it sit for 20 minutes, would run great until the next summit, after the 5th episode, took it to a local Ford dealer near Provo, turned out to be a bad fuel pump in the tank. At the time I didn’t know it had two fuel pumps. Dealer replaced the pump, ran great and didn’t miss a beat all the way back to Texas.
No codes
I wouldn't worry about it too much, keep an eye on it, if it does it regularly, take it to the dealer.
Fine. I’ll refer to mine as a wheeled land boat
Any update on this??Has anyone else had this happen to a 2.3 liter? It was over 100degrees yesterday evening. I drove 5 miles to a park, went for a 40minute run. Started the Vehicle (forgive my previous sin of calling it a car), drove 150 yards and went to turn onto the main road exiting the road which is maybe a 2 degree incline and as soon as I lifted my foot off the brake and started to press the gas it died and the dash said to put in park to start up the car. No check engine light or any sort of error code. Started right up with no issue. Thankfully I was not in the middle of the road or had just pulled out in front of oncoming traffic.
I am going to have the dealer note it on my record.
