Sunday, September 2, 2018

2004 Ford Escape gas pedal issue after replacing ignition coils?

Thanks in advance for any assistance. Today I spent most of the day replacing the 6 ignition coils, spark plus, brake pads and rotors on my 2004 Ford Escape. All of the issues that I set out to fix I have fixed, but now I believe I might have created a new one. In order to access the back 3 spark plugs I have to remove the intake manifold and unhook quite a few hoses. I double checked and made sure everything was reconnected and the car ran great initially. I turn out on the main road and gunned it to get up to about 60 mph and everything seemed great. I turned down a side road to slammed on the brakes a couple of times to test them out, also. Once I pulled out on the main road again my gas pedal had basically became loose and was all the way to the floor. I could only push the pedal about an inch before it was maxed out and touching the floor. It acted normal otherwise as far as the rpm's go, but with the limited pedal even with it floored I could only slowly speed up and it took me a full minute to get it to 50 mph. I'm not sure if I'm explaining this right, but I'm hoping the idea is coming across. Once I got it home and parked it for a minute I cranked it again and the pedal had returned to normal, but I didn't want to bring it on the road again. I don't trust it to drive it to work now, and I don't know what I could have done. I checked again and all the hoses/cables seem to be in order. Any idea what could be going on?

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