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I've replaced plenty of alternators in different vehicles over the years, but (knock on wood) never had to replace a starter. Some vehicles are prone to going through starters. Most aren't.
I have another "howcum." Howcum there is always something in the way when you are working on a vehicle that doubles the amount of time to complete the job? When I was removing the passenger side control arm the bolt wouldn't slide all the way out because the catalyic converter was in the way. I had to unbolt the exhaust from the manifold and leverage the bolt out, which can be done if you have a 2.3L. I was looking on Youtube and it appears Ford put the exhaust in the way on all four engines available on the 1998-2011 Rangers. If the catalytic converter isn't in the way the exhaust is routed in the way, then makes a bend to go toward the back of the vehicle. So, I had to find my very long extension, which I never found and had to stack up shorter extensions as a workaround. It wasn't too difficult, but it really seems like one of those things designed by manufacturers as a "gotcha!" If I lived someplace where rust is a problem this potentially could have resulted in a lot of cursing.
If it takes you more than half an hour to change the bely on a Ranger you're doing something wrong. Are you sure that you didn't pass out for a couple of those after hitting you head? Maybe Lincoln was really asking you to hand over the tools because you were taking too long and it was cutting into his riding time.
The inertia switch kills the fuel pump not the engine. Maybe it was tripped in your thrash session, but retained enough pressure to keep running until you cut it off. Those do operate at 65 PSI returnless, and it probably wasn't drinking a lot of fuel at low speeds. Residual pressure drained off while parked and not enough left to start and run.
I didn't know that it was a returnless system but I thought the same thing when I first read it. I also thought that maybe the switch is getting a little weak and is tripping a little easier so that when the truck was swung around caused the trip.
You’re not considering the feeble old fart factor!
Yep the 5.0L Explorers switched over in 1999.
I get it. I'm not there yet, but getting closer every year. My report for today is I thought about it. That's it. I thought about what I should be doing on it.
I'm well aware of all of that, when I whipped it around it was extremely uneventful and came to a gentle stop, my buddy must have bumped the switch just wrong with his boot or something, this thing has seen WAY worse in the time I've had it and even todays shenanigans' were worse than that particular instance...
That is a very different vehicle than Scott's 2000 Explorer 5.0L. The engine is very different, the ECC is very different, and the fuel system may be very different. Heck, it even sounds like the inertia switch may be different. Any of these things could affect how it responds to that switch being tripped. He also never stated how long of a delay there was between the thrashing that potentially tripped the switch (it that was even the cause and when it happened) and turning off the vehicle.
Again, not really sure I'd call it thrashing, it's a 5k pound pig (IE slow actions for the most part) and it was a sloppy muddy spot where I needed to turn around anyway, don't remember exactly but I'm pretty sure after it stopped I put it in park and there was a second or two of idle before I shut it off. On restart it flared as normal but was struggling then stalled and was worse on consecutive tries... 99.975466776% sure it was just a fluke
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