91xlt4x4
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- Location
- North Carolina
- Vehicle Year
- 1991
- Make / Model
- XLT 4.0L 4x4
- Transmission
- Automatic
Hello everybody. Nice to be a member. Just bought a rather basket case 1991 4.0L XLT 4x4. I'm kinda excited. First post.
Here where I live we have safety inspections so everything's gotta work. I was just doing a check and everything was good. Last thing to check was the emergency brake.
I pressed on the E-brake pedal and it was stiff right off the top. Way to tight. No Parking brake light. I released the pedal and it came back up. No ratchet action. Came back in and did some searching. Found a post someplace on a f150 forum that said the ratchet action starts pretty deep in the throw so I went back outside and super mashed the pedal.
BAM!
The pedal went to the floor and now has no resistance. It's flaccid now but turns out the parking brake light works albeit intermittently. No big deal I thought in a blink of an eye. I'll just replace the cable. ( Found out the cable is fine. The barrell on the end pulled out of whatever it hooks up to right by the driver-side door and it's too cold, wet and dark right now to mess with it) All that stuff is pretty par for the course but here's the rub.
The very moment my pedal slammed to the floor, my Low Oil light came on and has stayed on.
Wut?
Does this make sense to anybody? What could have happened? Where do I start looking?
Here where I live we have safety inspections so everything's gotta work. I was just doing a check and everything was good. Last thing to check was the emergency brake.
I pressed on the E-brake pedal and it was stiff right off the top. Way to tight. No Parking brake light. I released the pedal and it came back up. No ratchet action. Came back in and did some searching. Found a post someplace on a f150 forum that said the ratchet action starts pretty deep in the throw so I went back outside and super mashed the pedal.
BAM!
The pedal went to the floor and now has no resistance. It's flaccid now but turns out the parking brake light works albeit intermittently. No big deal I thought in a blink of an eye. I'll just replace the cable. ( Found out the cable is fine. The barrell on the end pulled out of whatever it hooks up to right by the driver-side door and it's too cold, wet and dark right now to mess with it) All that stuff is pretty par for the course but here's the rub.
The very moment my pedal slammed to the floor, my Low Oil light came on and has stayed on.
Wut?
Does this make sense to anybody? What could have happened? Where do I start looking?