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I moved 2 weeks ago, now am driving a nicely not busy 2 lane for 32 miles, but most of it has a pretty uneven road surface. Not rough, but quite uneven. I am already sick to death of the constant side to side violent rocking this produces. A rough road is bad enuf, this frequent side to side...

Long story short, a few months ago bought what turned out to be a badly neglected 93 2.3 5 speed. Not that many miles at under 80k, but lots of things not working right after I started digging into it to cure what at first seemed to be a minor road-speed driveability problem. Have seen a lot...

Rock Auto can't tell me if the Wells crank position sensor they sell comes with the plastic alignment tool. I can't seem to find any contacts on the Wells site, either. I do see that Autozone sells that same one, but without it being in stock they can't look. The description says it comes...

I think this applies to all the EEC-IV systems rather than just to any one specific engine type, so here goes. 93 Ranger with 5 speed and about 80k miles. Previous owner neglected it horribly. Symptoms are irregular frequent miss or stumble under load in 4th & esp in 5th, at moderate engine...

Might have figured it out.

Been chasing a vacuum leak, vacuum is steady but 2+ pounds low in most situations. Checking anything and everything that has vacuum to/thru it. Found one - the plastic fitting going into the brake booster had a crack in it. Was able to suck air thru the crack quite easily when sealing the...

Didn't do it "by the book", barely warm engine, more to see if I had any glaring "oops" and to see how much difference there was. Supposedly 80k miles, but might have had speedo changed, if nothing else has been seriously neglected, so - - Forgot to block the throttle body open, but here are...

I installed a vacuum gauge and found it's running a pound or 2 low from where it should. Looked around for possible vacuum leaks, saw what appears to be a rubber seal with a spring in it to hold it snug around the shaft on the linkage side that's fallen apart. I'm assuming that's to seal the...

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ACC-140018/ I'm going to ohm my coil packs, altho I know that may or may not be a reliable indicator of a problem. Have read that going to one of the Accel coil packs improves power and mileage a little. Anyone tried them? I thought I'd maybe get one just...

Going to ohm my injectors, about 80k miles. There's a possibility one or more of them aren't functioning quite right. If I find I need one or more replacements, I've read that using the next size larger injector (15 lb/hr versus the stock 14 lb/hr) can help power in the mid and esp upper rpm...

93 2.3, stock. Noticed on the shaft going into the front of the throttle body that there 'appears to be some sort of ring, maybe a seal, that looks like it maybe should fit into a groove in the throttle body around the shaft, maybe to seal it so it doesn't suck air. Does that sound correct...

Got a 4 day weekend, forced on me cuz the job is shut down for Monday. Just got "a few" little chores to attend to on my 93 that I bought a little while ago. Swap transmissions (5 speed) - had it out just after I got it to seal an oil leak. Put in a new clutch, t/o bearing and pilot bearing...

I've been a die hard hot rodder all my life and always tweak vehicles for more performance. Purposely restraining myself with this 93 2.3 5 speed I bought recently after my car got stolen. Concentrating more on correcting all the problems caused by horrible neglect, finally have it in pretty...

I don't have one of the t-stat housings with a threaded bung. Is there any other place to screw in a temp gauge sender? Want to check my oem gauge. Thx

Bought it a couple months ago, looked OK with large diameter tires, but with the engine not running real well (since been improved) it didn't have enuf power to pull up a grade in 5th, so put stock diameter tires on it. Now it looks like there's about a foot gap above esp the rear tires...

Friend of mine I think needs a new ecu in his 4.0 AT Ranger. Another guy I know has one out of a 94 Explorer. Numbers are similar but a little different. Ranger oem F47Z12-A650-ANA or ANB Explorer oem F47F-12A650-MB Of course, Expl's had cruise and some other stuff that the Ranger doesn't...

Bought what turned out to be a sadly neglected, even abused, 93 Ranger 2.3 5 spd a couple months ago. Cheap. Yeah. Paint rough, but only 75k on the truck. Two months later and lots of new parts and quite a few hours of wrenching, most things fixed. Except the engine ran rough in 4th & 5th...

Found a "sport" instrument cluster with the tach, installed it into my 2.3 Ranger. From what I read, the tach's are the same for the V6 and 4 cyl vehicle, there's just an extra ground wire hooked up for the tach when used in a V6. Being originally a 4 cyl vehicle, I would think I could install...

Bought the truck a couple months ago, been working on it ever since. Horribly neglected. About 80 miles, I don't think any of the fluids had ever been changed. Anyway, had to flush the engine twice before I got relatively clean water out of it. Radiator and overflow bottle were so crudded up...

Was all pumped when I found an optional gauge cluster with the tach. I like to see my rpms, esp when pulling my bike trailer, up hills, etc. Well, of course, I never thought of it being a V6 tach. It registers, but of course 1/3rd low. Some tach's I've seen have a simple selector switch on...