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- Sep 20, 2009
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- Vehicle Year
- 1987
- Transmission
- Manual
Hey all-
Came home from a month away and my 87 Ranger would crank, but not start. Changed my fuel filter (which helped) drove to the gas station, added some injector cleaner, headed home and it died. Back to same crank but no start after that. Eventually, after a couple of hours of sitting, it started and limped home a few blocks.
So...changing the filter seemed to solve the problem, but then it went back to it's same deal. When I'm cranking, but not starting, my fuel gauge is dropping at a noticable rate. I have fuel in both tanks and the last major tune up was maybe 20k ago. 195k miles. Mechanically inclined, but not a mechanic.
Fired it up today and ran it at idle and giving it RPM's in my driveway. Did this for 5 minutes or so and then it just died at idle. Took a few trys and then it turned over again; but no confidence leaving the driveway.
Any thoughts?
Came home from a month away and my 87 Ranger would crank, but not start. Changed my fuel filter (which helped) drove to the gas station, added some injector cleaner, headed home and it died. Back to same crank but no start after that. Eventually, after a couple of hours of sitting, it started and limped home a few blocks.
So...changing the filter seemed to solve the problem, but then it went back to it's same deal. When I'm cranking, but not starting, my fuel gauge is dropping at a noticable rate. I have fuel in both tanks and the last major tune up was maybe 20k ago. 195k miles. Mechanically inclined, but not a mechanic.
Fired it up today and ran it at idle and giving it RPM's in my driveway. Did this for 5 minutes or so and then it just died at idle. Took a few trys and then it turned over again; but no confidence leaving the driveway.
Any thoughts?
