TxDarth
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- Vehicle Year
- 2004
- Make / Model
- Ford
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- Automatic
New to the Ranger world but know enough to be dangerous.
Just bought this truck a week ago - 2004 V6 Auto - 80K miles pretty clean truck.
In doing some TLC - minor areas found the brakes are supposedly 20K miles old but they pulse or chatter when applying quickly or harder than a normal stop. I bled them with no help - guess I need to look further...
The truck did not seem to have much power - ran codes nothing showed up.
Decided that with 80K maybe a tune up was in order. Bought plugs and wires last night and installed. I was very surprised to find the plugs were not that old but #2 and #4 were like new - they were dry and looked like they were not firing at all. The rest were a nice mousey brown - normal looking. How can I find out if it is coil pac related or injectors?
Lastly - the gear selection is sloppy seems to be out of adjustment with the selections indicated. The tranny shifts fine when finally selected. The main one is "D" - several times I have been driving down the road to discover it is in D2 not D or the final gear.
If any of these makes sense I appreciate all the help I can get. I am retired with an 1800 sq foot garage, heated and AC, a lift and all the tools I need including welders.
Just bought this truck a week ago - 2004 V6 Auto - 80K miles pretty clean truck.
In doing some TLC - minor areas found the brakes are supposedly 20K miles old but they pulse or chatter when applying quickly or harder than a normal stop. I bled them with no help - guess I need to look further...
The truck did not seem to have much power - ran codes nothing showed up.
Decided that with 80K maybe a tune up was in order. Bought plugs and wires last night and installed. I was very surprised to find the plugs were not that old but #2 and #4 were like new - they were dry and looked like they were not firing at all. The rest were a nice mousey brown - normal looking. How can I find out if it is coil pac related or injectors?
Lastly - the gear selection is sloppy seems to be out of adjustment with the selections indicated. The tranny shifts fine when finally selected. The main one is "D" - several times I have been driving down the road to discover it is in D2 not D or the final gear.
If any of these makes sense I appreciate all the help I can get. I am retired with an 1800 sq foot garage, heated and AC, a lift and all the tools I need including welders.