Twranger
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- Vehicle Year
- 1999
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 4.0 OHV
- Transmission
- Automatic
Hey All,
Totally new to the TRS as a member, but I've been lurking off and on for awhile.
So here's the story, then the problem.
About a week ago I noticed it started leaking coolant from some undisclosed location at the back of the engine, seemly mostly when hot. A nice steady leak. Enough to make a puddle. I thought it was a head gasket, turns out it's super common I guess that these motors start leaking from the lower intake gasket.
So, long story short, I followed 97RangerXLT's right up on this whole process. (Thanks btw!) I did it all, including the fuel rail and injector o-rings.
Now the gosh darn thing seems to start up okay, not great, and idles okay, but a little rough. And it sounds rough if you rev it up and if you put it in gear... Forget about it. It almost stalls and has no power what so ever and sounds super rough.
Sounds like a vacuum leak right? That's what I thought. I have been checking for vacuum leaks for the last week... Among other things. The EGR tube to upper intake seemed to be leaking, replaced the o-ring (super carefully because I think I pinched the last one, hence the leak).
Oh and it did throw a P0174 (lean bank 2) code. And my scanner shows the short term fuel trim bank 2 at like 42! Whereas the bank 1 trim hovers around 0.
I'm totally stumped. I bow to the superior knowledge and wisdom of this forum. Any and all suggestions are welcome.
I'm ready to send this thing off a cliff.
Totally new to the TRS as a member, but I've been lurking off and on for awhile.
So here's the story, then the problem.
About a week ago I noticed it started leaking coolant from some undisclosed location at the back of the engine, seemly mostly when hot. A nice steady leak. Enough to make a puddle. I thought it was a head gasket, turns out it's super common I guess that these motors start leaking from the lower intake gasket.
So, long story short, I followed 97RangerXLT's right up on this whole process. (Thanks btw!) I did it all, including the fuel rail and injector o-rings.
Now the gosh darn thing seems to start up okay, not great, and idles okay, but a little rough. And it sounds rough if you rev it up and if you put it in gear... Forget about it. It almost stalls and has no power what so ever and sounds super rough.
Sounds like a vacuum leak right? That's what I thought. I have been checking for vacuum leaks for the last week... Among other things. The EGR tube to upper intake seemed to be leaking, replaced the o-ring (super carefully because I think I pinched the last one, hence the leak).
Oh and it did throw a P0174 (lean bank 2) code. And my scanner shows the short term fuel trim bank 2 at like 42! Whereas the bank 1 trim hovers around 0.
I'm totally stumped. I bow to the superior knowledge and wisdom of this forum. Any and all suggestions are welcome.
I'm ready to send this thing off a cliff.