Lovemy98ranger
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- Location
- Billerica ma
- Vehicle Year
- 1998 and 2002
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Type
- 3.0 V6
- Transmission
- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 4WD
Newbie here. I have. 98 ranger 3.0, now has 46k miles. Purchased last year with 11 k original from a mailman that drove it 2 miles a day to work and back, never left his town. At around 38k, I started noticing a skip here and there. Just got worse as time passed. Now it'll skip when idling after and only once its warmed up. Only code I pull is the cylinder 1 misfire. I've changed the wires, plugs, coil, iac, cps, cleaned throttle body, maf, changed fuel filter, pcv valve, egr valve, and injector #1. And a bunch of vacuum lines like the 4x4 to the hubs, the brake booster line with elbow and grommet, both intake lines ect. I also did a compression test, first time I think it wasn't tight enough and I got 90 psi on cranking cyl 1, then noticed it was loose, tightened then got 120-125 psi, and did this a half a dozen times, each at the same 120 reading. I noticed some of the other cylinders were at 150 psi. I'm stumped, this is my work truck, can't live without the 4x4,ive never pulled or loaded anything over 700-800lbs in it. Any help would be much appreciated. I'd hate to sell it, cause I love it. And just installed a fisher homesteader a couple
Thousand miles before it started the misfire.
Thousand miles before it started the misfire.
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