Always listen to that little voice....

[85_Ranger4x4]

Piss on that.

This is the first of the old style bearings ive ever lost. Hell rusty #1 has the originals still in it, i think i mighta packed them once.

The bolt on ones are nice, but i dont mind getting greasy to change a 10 dollar set of bearings over paying 250+ to stay clean.

She does have 200k on it and has never had it changed so it really isn't doing THAT bad.

Still incredibly annoying. And you have to mess with the eccentrics for the alignment to change said bearing.

Unit bearings for my F-150 are around $100, hers was $30 for a Timkin.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I just paid 35 for bearings/seals/races for both sides. High quality chinese crap to

 

[scotts90ranger]

I lost the vacuum pump on my '97 F350 on the way back from camping a couple years ago, at the top of the Santiam Pass in Oregon... I don't think I was hauling a camper that year so the combined weight of the truck and load was a mere 14000 pounds I believe... that's where a manual trans and trailer brakes come in... 4th gear and some trailer brakes kept me at 50mph down hill...

My little feeling is usually wrong... usually either easier or harder (the opposite of which I think the problem is)... that and there's too many issues with my rigs that sometimes I ignore a lot...

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I lost the vacuum pump on my '97 F350 on the way back from camping a couple years ago, at the top of the Santiam Pass in Oregon... I don't think I was hauling a camper that year so the combined weight of the truck and load was a mere 14000 pounds I believe... that's where a manual trans and trailer brakes come in... 4th gear and some trailer brakes kept me at 50mph down hill...

My little feeling is usually wrong... usually either easier or harder (the opposite of which I think the problem is)... that and there's too many issues with my rigs that sometimes I ignore a lot...

Im the same way. 9/10 i make a mountain from a molehill (like when i seen snot under rusty #1s oil cap, only to realize later is was condensation) or that 10th time i mistake a lake for a puddle (like when the oil pressure gauge in my 97 kept dropping to "L", thought, "eh damn gauge", but then a bottom end later...)

That being said though, i ignore alot of issues but am very anal about noises, engine misses, and trans issues. I dont give a camel shit what something looks like (generally), how it stops, or steers, or whats coming out the tailpipe (or, some exhaust pipe), but if i dont think im getting 100% go it drives me insane,

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I just paid 35 for bearings/seals/races for both sides. High quality chinese crap to

But you didn't get to do all this fun stuff + blow the old race off the hub with the torch now did you?

 

[rusty ol ranger]

But you didn't get to do all this fun stuff + blow the old race off the hub with the torch now did you?

Nope, cant say that i did. I havent even touched mine yet lol.

I put the 97 back into service. Noticed its losing brake fluid (slowly), and the 77 also loses brake fluid (as quick as you pump the pedal)

You'd think outta 3 damn vehicles ONE would stay glued togther.

 

[scotts90ranger]

That's part of the reason I have 5 for 2 people... Ranger, two V8 explorers, '97 power stroke, and the Geo Tracker... almost always at least one down... tracker has a blown head gasket right now and has for a year... I'll get there... Ranger leaks a bunch of oil out the turbo and has alignment issues, Explorers leak some oil out the back of the engines on the exhaust somewhere and F350 doesn't have a speedo over 35mph right now and needs a turbo...

 

[rusty ol ranger]

That's part of the reason I have 5 for 2 people... Ranger, two V8 explorers, '97 power stroke, and the Geo Tracker... almost always at least one down... tracker has a blown head gasket right now and has for a year... I'll get there... Ranger leaks a bunch of oil out the turbo and has alignment issues, Explorers leak some oil out the back of the engines on the exhaust somewhere and F350 doesn't have a speedo over 35mph right now and needs a turbo...

Its just me and the wife, and she wont touch any of them, so im the sole driver at a 3:1 ratio. Lol.

 

[Haywire6000]

I must be the odd man out with wheel bearings, mine always seem to looses up when they wipe out.

 

[Dav]

talk about deja view....thought that picture of the ranger going on the ramp truck was mine! just got dropped off by AAA. about 25 miles, this time.
when i bought the 88, the kid said it would just die sometimes. today it did for the first time. sat for over an hour waiting on the hook. when he showed, the damn truck started right up. had him tow me anyway, just in case.
cause unknown but i'm pretty sure it's some kind of contagious mechanical disease because my 95 ranger does the same thing; dies out like it's got no gas, sits, then fires right up. days gone by i would say it was vapor lock but i don't think electric fuels can get vapor lock

 

[rusty ol ranger]

talk about deja view....thought that picture of the ranger going on the ramp truck was mine! just got dropped off by AAA. about 25 miles, this time.
when i bought the 88, the kid said it would just die sometimes. today it did for the first time. sat for over an hour waiting on the hook. when he showed, the damn truck started right up. had him tow me anyway, just in case.
cause unknown but i'm pretty sure it's some kind of contagious mechanical disease because my 95 ranger does the same thing; dies out like it's got no gas, sits, then fires right up. days gone by i would say it was vapor lock but i don't think electric fuels can get vapor lock

My old 87 (Rusty #1) did the exact same thing, it was the ignition module. Only time in 22 years of abuse and 300,000 miles it left me sittin.

 

[Dav]

where would i find this 'ignition module?' and is it the same on a 95 2.3 as on an 88 2.9?
this has been driving me crazy....or NOT driving me... only happens when it is hot out, and in florida when isn't it hot? in the 95 i keep several fuel pump relays but changing them did not solve the problem

 

[rusty ol ranger]

On the 2.9 its back on the distributor, little grey thing with a plug running to it. Not sure if the 2.3 still used one in 95.

 

[scotts90ranger]

2.3L is probably the crank sensor or DIS module if it has one... the DIS is basically the same thing as the TFI module that is mounted on the distributor but they aren't quite as known for the issue... I had a crank sensor go out like that, sat for an hour and it started right up...

Rusty, I'll rephrase that a little, all but the '98 Eddie Bauer explorer are solely driven by myself... so that's 4:1

And just to put it out there, it is definitely possible to vapor lock a fuel injected engine... it is not common on older ones that have a regulator and return line on the opposite end of the fuel rail from the inlet, but the "returnless" systems that have the regulator near the fuel tank can get vapor buildup after the fuel pump or in the fuel pump (again, not common with a fuel pump in the tank, but in my world where I deal with boats, in tank pumps aren't an option). When you shut down a hot engine, the engine compartment gets hotter than the 135F or thereabouts that normal E10 boils at and you have vapor that the fuel pump will not pump... Not likely your issue, but hey...

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I have never heard of EFI getting the vapors, but i guess its possible.