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Ford Taurus 1996technical service bulletin

Bulletin 97010510636 · NHTSA communication 52914 · issued May 1, 1997

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Fuel System, Gasoline
component
1996
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

Vehicles exhibiting hard/no start condition when vehicles parked for an extended period of time in a nose-up position. *yc

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.