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- Joined
- Apr 13, 2008
- Messages
- 1,169
- City
- Fort Lauderdale
- State - Country
- FL - USA
- Vehicle Year
- 99
- Drive
- 2WD
- Engine
- 3.0 V6
- Transmission
- Manual
- Tire Size
- P235/75R15
- My credo
- A properly suspensioned Ranger can be safely airborne for up to 4 seconds at a time! =:O
Truck just sat unused for 30 days in the hot So-Fla sun and rain. NO fluid leaks on ground.
Low-use vehicle, not quite 34k mi. on odo.
Fired right up, shifted fine, no feeling of flat spots in tires, took her on a short high-speed run a few exits down I-95 to pick up a mere 60 lbs. of bulky goods and toss it in the bed. Used all 5 forward gears and reverse several times, no incident.
Stopping at several stores on the way back, the truck would ROLL BACKWARDS when left parked in reverse gear, clutch out (engaged), naturally. This is the flatlands, so we're talking pretty mild parking lot slopes... WTH?
My habit is to nose into the parking bump in 1st gear, clutch in, brake in, shift into reverse, key off, release clutch, release brake. (Except on very steep slopes, stopped setting parking brake as a habit in a colder clime, where tossed-up snow could freeze the brake cable).
Putting it in a forward gear seemed to cure the problem. Of course being thus spooked, I stopped being lazy and engaged the parking brake too.
It's basically acting like when the engine turns off, it pops out of reverse... will characterize further when un-jet-lagged... but is this ringing a bell for anyone?
Thanks in advance... z-z-z-z...
Low-use vehicle, not quite 34k mi. on odo.Fired right up, shifted fine, no feeling of flat spots in tires, took her on a short high-speed run a few exits down I-95 to pick up a mere 60 lbs. of bulky goods and toss it in the bed. Used all 5 forward gears and reverse several times, no incident.
Stopping at several stores on the way back, the truck would ROLL BACKWARDS when left parked in reverse gear, clutch out (engaged), naturally. This is the flatlands, so we're talking pretty mild parking lot slopes... WTH?
My habit is to nose into the parking bump in 1st gear, clutch in, brake in, shift into reverse, key off, release clutch, release brake. (Except on very steep slopes, stopped setting parking brake as a habit in a colder clime, where tossed-up snow could freeze the brake cable).
Putting it in a forward gear seemed to cure the problem. Of course being thus spooked, I stopped being lazy and engaged the parking brake too.
It's basically acting like when the engine turns off, it pops out of reverse... will characterize further when un-jet-lagged... but is this ringing a bell for anyone?
Thanks in advance... z-z-z-z...
