86RangerXL
Member
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2022
- Messages
- 45
- Reaction score
- 11
- Points
- 8
- Location
- Tallmadge, OH
- Vehicle Year
- 1986
- Make / Model
- Ford Ranger
- Transmission
- Automatic
I've had my 1986 Ranger with the 2.9 for about a year now and finally got around to testing if there's a vacuum leak because of the real rough idle. I made a little smoke machine thing, blew the smoke into the system, and I see some smoke coming out from the left side of the thermostat housing, near the intake manifold. I also saw smoke billowing out of the carbon canister when I did this too. Does it look like smoke is coming through the intake manifold gaskets in the video I put below? Is the large carbon canister leak normal?
My other question was my oil pressure. My oil pressure has been on the high side for a while but it seems like its even higher now. It usually sits in the middle of the letter N in "norm" on the gauge. Recently, I've seen it go above the N and get scarily close to passing out of the "norm" section. I don't know what could be causing that, I'm not using too thick of oil, just the recommended 10w-30 with a little 10w-40 to top it off.
My other question was my oil pressure. My oil pressure has been on the high side for a while but it seems like its even higher now. It usually sits in the middle of the letter N in "norm" on the gauge. Recently, I've seen it go above the N and get scarily close to passing out of the "norm" section. I don't know what could be causing that, I'm not using too thick of oil, just the recommended 10w-30 with a little 10w-40 to top it off.