HOPEFULLY, Finally update on Cricket

[akcskye]

Hey all,

I got put into a full time position at work so I've hardly had any time to be on the internet.

But those of you that were following the story on my truck, Cricket, a 1991 Ford Ranger 2.3, knew that at last writing, it was running but extremely under-revved sounding.

After checking out everything we possibly could, we thought it was just doomed to getting 10 mpg, crawling up hills in 2nd gear at 20 mph, and never making it over 55 mph...that the "jig" was up...that it would be nothing more than a "haul trash to the dump" truck.

Well, at Autozone, we had went to check a code light on my sister's car she was letting us drive, and he said that her car needed some fuel additive, and he suggested Lucas brand.

We put it in, and her car started running better.

So, on a whim, I put some in Cricket 2 days later.

Well, 3 weeks later now, Cricket is running BETTER than it did when we bought it 12 years ago.

It is going up hills without any power loss, getting over 65 mph where the speed limits allow, and back to 23 mpg.

SO, keeping fingers crossed...any of you having problems like this...a $5.00 bottle of Lucas was the final touch we needed...so I enthusiastically say...give it a try yourself!

 

[Southern3.0]

When I bought my '91 Ranger it was the same deal. Ran like crap, no power, smoke bad and smelled horrible. The dealer I got it from did a full tune up, stared just putting new sensors on it, lost a bunch of money.

I got it home, put a can a seafoam in the gas and eventually it cleared up. It could of been the seafam or it could have been just running a few tanks of fresh gas through it. who knows....

 

[RyanQ]

This sounds interesting. I just bought a 89 Ranger yesterday with a 2.3 that has been sitting for about 2 1/2 years. I havent played with it yet but it has a fuel delivery (i think) problem. The previous owner said he recently put a fuel filter (other one was bad!!) and cranked it over and then check the fuel filter again and was pretty nasty. Is this old gas? Bad tank? fuel lines have something in them? THanks

 

[scotts90ranger]

it would be either something bad in the tank (IE something got in there, it's a plastic tank, it's not going to rust) or the fuel pump is trashed and parts of it are ending up in the filter...

I need to try something like that lucas stuff or seafoam, or maybe I'm just too hard on her and having a bunch of miles on it is why my mileage is low...