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- Washington
- Vehicle Year
- 2002
- Make / Model
- Ford Ranger
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- Manual
Hey, some of you may remember me from a previous discussion. I've been trying to debug my starting system in my 2001 Ford Ranger. I bought it recently and it worked for a couple weeks then started having difficulty starting. Finally it wouldn't start and I was up in the woods I wasn't in a place where I could bump start it so I crawled underneath and hit the starter with a rock. It started. "Bad starter moter" , I thought, so I replaced the starter. It still didn't start. No power was coming down the control wire.
I checked the fuses and relays and decided that the problem might be the nuetral safety switch. I spliced the Pink and Pink/white wires together to bypass the clutch. It started when I turned the key. "I fixed it!" I thought. The next day I tried starting it again and It wouldn't crank, nothing.
After a lot of diagnosis, I decided to replace the ignition switch. After the switch arrived I put it in and the truck started perfectly over and over again for about a week. Now, it's not making any noise again. No click, no crank, nothing. I'm assuming that the ignition switch went bad again. Why would It go bad? Why so soon?
The previous owner said that he replaced the starter and the ignition switch and the clutch so maybe he was dealing with a similar issue.
Has anyone dealt with this? What could cause a (mechanical by the looks of it) ignition switch to go bad so fast? Is this problem related to the false positives I got? (Truck starting after banging the starter) and (splice through the NSS working for a moment)
I checked the fuses and relays and decided that the problem might be the nuetral safety switch. I spliced the Pink and Pink/white wires together to bypass the clutch. It started when I turned the key. "I fixed it!" I thought. The next day I tried starting it again and It wouldn't crank, nothing.
After a lot of diagnosis, I decided to replace the ignition switch. After the switch arrived I put it in and the truck started perfectly over and over again for about a week. Now, it's not making any noise again. No click, no crank, nothing. I'm assuming that the ignition switch went bad again. Why would It go bad? Why so soon?
The previous owner said that he replaced the starter and the ignition switch and the clutch so maybe he was dealing with a similar issue.
Has anyone dealt with this? What could cause a (mechanical by the looks of it) ignition switch to go bad so fast? Is this problem related to the false positives I got? (Truck starting after banging the starter) and (splice through the NSS working for a moment)