RangerSon
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- Vehicle Year
- 1996
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- Ford
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I was wondering if anyone here could help me out here. My son got a 1996 Ford Ranger 2.3L from his friend in great running condition (99,500 miles) except that it doesn’t warm up when the engine is hot. It was sitting for approx. 6 months only being started once every two weeks during the summer and fall months for a few minutes before he got it. Being colder now here in PA he is driving it, but asked me if I could check it out. First thing I did was replace the thermostat and anti-freeze thinking this may be the problem, but that would be to easy of course. The hoses do get hot after about almost 10 minutes of running. One thing I was surprised at it has a clutch fan and not electrically controlled. Not having A/C it isn’t as complex as my car to work on. I was trying to locate the heater valve to see if that may be stuck, but I could not locate it anywhere. The heater hoses look like to go from the core to the engine and stat housing only. I pulled the glove compartment down and noticed when I turn the heater control from cold to hot there is a cable control and I can here a door shut (maybe the blend door?). At this point I think I guess I will flush the system to see what happens. If anyone knows if this model even has a heater control valve could you let me know and where it would be located? Also since it has a cable control instead that sounds like a door is shutting when turned instead of electric does it even have a blend door? By the way I am not real familiar with Ford’s if you couldn’t tell by now. Any other suggestions that may resolve this would be great.