MikeShepard505
Member
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2019
- Messages
- 46
- Reaction score
- 9
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- 8
- Location
- Albuquerque New Mexico
- Vehicle Year
- 2000
- Make / Model
- Ford Ranger
- Engine Size
- 3.0L V6
- Transmission
- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 2WD
- Total Lift
- Stock
- Tire Size
- Stock 225/70R15
Hello, I’ll try to keep this short lol. I’m working on a 2001 3.0 for a widow that doesn’t have a single one of her vehicles running. I thought I would be a nice guy and help her out since I virtually brought my 2000 3.0 back to life (almost exactly the same as hers except mine doesn’t have power windows, power mirrors, and hers is a regular cab, and not a flex fuel like mine)
Well she said she was really losing power and it would barely stay on, I scanned the truck and cylinder one was misfiring, visually the clutch fan was absolutely mangled by some “mechanic”, her throttle cable was stretch just from over time, and her air intake hose had a giant rip in it. Well after replacing and fixing what I just said I actually ended up replacing the fan clutch, fan blade, air intake hose, tensioner pulley, serpentine belt, water pump?, replacing her cylinder 1 spark plug wire, and completely flushed and refilled her cooling system. now when I turned the truck back on and got it all back together with new parts the misfire was gone and it just had a really rough idle in park and neutral. I took it for a drive for the first time (because before I worked on it wouldn't stay on more than 2 mins without dying) it would only get up to 50mph. I’m sort of confused. Maybe the Idle air control valve? There was also a little episode my own truck had that was very similar to this after I sprayed down the underbelly of the truck to get all the mud off on it at one point and on the way home on the highway if i let the truck slow down to 70mph it was trying to down shift right in the middle of the highway! Shaking the f*ck out of my truck. Is there something at the transmission or maybe the rear abs speed sensor being wet or dirty that can cause the speed to top out or want to down shift on this 2001? I noticed my truck had mud caked on rear abs speed sensor when it was freaking out and her rear speed sensor is covered in differential fluid for some reason? My transmission had mud all over it too but her underbelly is almost completely clean. Her 2001 has a rev limiter at 3k rpms in park and neutral but my 2000 does not. Please help as I’m at a loss for this lady
Well she said she was really losing power and it would barely stay on, I scanned the truck and cylinder one was misfiring, visually the clutch fan was absolutely mangled by some “mechanic”, her throttle cable was stretch just from over time, and her air intake hose had a giant rip in it. Well after replacing and fixing what I just said I actually ended up replacing the fan clutch, fan blade, air intake hose, tensioner pulley, serpentine belt, water pump?, replacing her cylinder 1 spark plug wire, and completely flushed and refilled her cooling system. now when I turned the truck back on and got it all back together with new parts the misfire was gone and it just had a really rough idle in park and neutral. I took it for a drive for the first time (because before I worked on it wouldn't stay on more than 2 mins without dying) it would only get up to 50mph. I’m sort of confused. Maybe the Idle air control valve? There was also a little episode my own truck had that was very similar to this after I sprayed down the underbelly of the truck to get all the mud off on it at one point and on the way home on the highway if i let the truck slow down to 70mph it was trying to down shift right in the middle of the highway! Shaking the f*ck out of my truck. Is there something at the transmission or maybe the rear abs speed sensor being wet or dirty that can cause the speed to top out or want to down shift on this 2001? I noticed my truck had mud caked on rear abs speed sensor when it was freaking out and her rear speed sensor is covered in differential fluid for some reason? My transmission had mud all over it too but her underbelly is almost completely clean. Her 2001 has a rev limiter at 3k rpms in park and neutral but my 2000 does not. Please help as I’m at a loss for this lady