clinton64xl
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- Joined
- Mar 26, 2012
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- Location
- Murphy, NC
- Vehicle Year
- 1997
- Make / Model
- ford
- Engine Size
- 4.0 V6
- Transmission
- Manual
I'm needing help trying to get my ranger to idle correctly.. For starters my engine light has been on for sometime so I recently had a mechanic hook it up to a computer and he was saying the oxygen sensers were bad!! So i bought 3 new oxygen sensers and installed them myself, well the light went off after unhooking the battery to reset the codes, but came back on after driving down the road a few miles.. Also i told the mechanic about the way it idles and he told me after he looked at it, that i needed to find another throttle body, because the throttle body seemed more loose than what it should be where the throttle cable hooks up at.. Well one of my friends told me before i buy a throttle body to replace the throttle position senser.. So i did but my truck still idles crazy!! It will idle sometimes near 1800 rpms then drop to 1100 rpms.. But then there is sometime it will idle so low it will kill the engine.. I know the engine light is coming on because of something that has to do with this idle problem, but i don't know what it could be!! Does anyone have any clue what could be causing this to happen??? Seems like when i reset the codes and the light goes out, it will idle some what better but when i start driving it down the road, it will start idling way to high and the check engine light will come back on..