- Joined
- Nov 13, 2018
- Messages
- 4,794
- Reaction score
- 4,802
- Location
- Canaan,NH
- Vehicle Year
- 1993
- Make / Model
- Ford Ranger
- Engine Type
- V8
- Engine Size
- 351
- Transmission
- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 2WD
- Total Drop
- 3"
- Tire Size
- 235/55R16
- My credo
- If you don't have time to do it right will you have time to do it over?
They were good on gas and horrible for everything else. They held about 3 qts of oil and people would forever run them out of oil. The front wheel bearings weren't just press in and reinstall the hub, you had to set the preload using one of 52 possible selective shims, too loose and the bearing failed again, too tight and the bearing failed again. I didn't make up 52, that's really how many choices of shim there were and no parts room had all of them. To replace the rotors you had to reshim the wheel bearings and then they'd often fail. We didn't have an on car brake lathe at the time and it was cheaper for us to pay the Honda dealer up the road to cut rotors than to do it in our shop. The car was an obsolete Mazda design built in Korea by Kia. Keep the Bronco, gas is a bargain compared to fixing a Festiva.