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HillbillyLes
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- 1995
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Hello, all.
First a little history then on to my question....
I just bought a 95 Ranger X-Cab 4wd with the 5-speed. It is a somewhat straight fairly solid rust-free truck but has seen a lot of miles......It shows 247K and though the speedo works, the odometer does not so there is no telling how many actual miles are on it.
Anyway, the previous owner (not the most honest or reliable I found after getting the truck home) told me that the owner prior to them had supposedly replaced the engine but there was no paperwork or mileage quote to verify so the assumption is, Who knows?
I thought it might have a miss but was hard to tell exactly due to a pretty noticeable exhaust leak at the manifold. After I had that fixed (among other things), I found that I was correct and could tell that there was definately a solid mis-fire in the engine. I ran codes to find cylinder 1 with constant misfires (even after plug change...all old plugs looked good). There is no anti-freeze in the exhaust or oil and no overheating issues or any other common sign of a blown gasket or crack in the head. Compression on that cyl is in the 30 psi range compared ~150 psi on all other cylinders....after doing some reading I think it is likely a valvetrain issue.....
On to my point......
The engine in the truck has the plastic upper intake manifold. When shopping for engines, I found a couple that were actually from 1995 Rangers and they actually had aluminum upper intake manifolds.
I was wondering if/when the aluminum upper intake came on the 4.0 in the Ranger and if the plastic intake on mine might (possibly) give credence that the engine is not the original 1995 4.0?
Any ideas??
The engine is fairly clean and does not have any leaks, that I have noticed so far. If it is possible that it is a newer engine, I may just look into fixing the top-end rather than replacing it...am already over budget for the "cheap daily driver project" so at this point I want to spend as little as possible to get it going reliably.
Thanks-
First a little history then on to my question....
I just bought a 95 Ranger X-Cab 4wd with the 5-speed. It is a somewhat straight fairly solid rust-free truck but has seen a lot of miles......It shows 247K and though the speedo works, the odometer does not so there is no telling how many actual miles are on it.
Anyway, the previous owner (not the most honest or reliable I found after getting the truck home) told me that the owner prior to them had supposedly replaced the engine but there was no paperwork or mileage quote to verify so the assumption is, Who knows?
I thought it might have a miss but was hard to tell exactly due to a pretty noticeable exhaust leak at the manifold. After I had that fixed (among other things), I found that I was correct and could tell that there was definately a solid mis-fire in the engine. I ran codes to find cylinder 1 with constant misfires (even after plug change...all old plugs looked good). There is no anti-freeze in the exhaust or oil and no overheating issues or any other common sign of a blown gasket or crack in the head. Compression on that cyl is in the 30 psi range compared ~150 psi on all other cylinders....after doing some reading I think it is likely a valvetrain issue.....
On to my point......
The engine in the truck has the plastic upper intake manifold. When shopping for engines, I found a couple that were actually from 1995 Rangers and they actually had aluminum upper intake manifolds.
I was wondering if/when the aluminum upper intake came on the 4.0 in the Ranger and if the plastic intake on mine might (possibly) give credence that the engine is not the original 1995 4.0?
Any ideas??
The engine is fairly clean and does not have any leaks, that I have noticed so far. If it is possible that it is a newer engine, I may just look into fixing the top-end rather than replacing it...am already over budget for the "cheap daily driver project" so at this point I want to spend as little as possible to get it going reliably.
Thanks-
