I wonder if this made her blow?

[Fairlaniac]

I blew up the 2.3 in my Ranger. I had been having problems with slow response on the oil pressure gauge. Do you think this could have caused it?

I'd never seen so much junk in a pick up tube. It's almost funny. Oh well, back to the replacement 4 banger.

Oh yeah, I'm certain this was the cause. Just joking around....at my expense!!!

 

[85DANGERanger]

wow, that pick up is plumb full of dirt and sludge

 

[iceracer60]

holy hell, yea just a shot in the dark, but i think you found the problem

 

[dangerranger83]

I've never seen so much bulid up!!!!

As for finding the problem, heres your sign

 

[Fairlaniac]

My beater...

I bought the thing in '07 for an economical beater. Almost instantaneously when I'd start it it would take 15 seconds or so to get the pressure gauge to register. In the winter here in PA it would sometimes take one full minute plus to register. It was like a carnival game. Guess how long it tkes to register before she finally blows. I put about 7,000 miles on it until it went.

The stuff in the pick up is like hard crumbly plastic. It appears someone had the oil pan off at one time as the oil pan gasket appeared to be made from some sort of squeeze from the tube gasket maker. On the inside it's a brittle. I too have never seen so much crap in a pick up tube in my lfe.

 

[flaminranger]

I was just getting ready to ask a question concerning something like that.
mine registers quickly and stays up for quite a while then the gauge just drops to the bottom like you turned the key off but the motor doesn't make any noise or lose power. is that what yours did???

 

[scotts90ranger]

believe it or not, that's from Ford...

mine was similar but not NEAR as bad as yours, Ford used silicone to make the oil pan gasket, and the squeezed out stuff went there... the replacement rubber gasket you get from Napa or whatnot works better and doesn't make that mess...

 

[The_Ghost]

Should I replace mine with the NAPA unit as preventative maintenance and clean out my pickup?

 

[shadetree]

This is a common problem on Rangers up thru 1992. The pan gasket is made of cork, and as it ages, and with the expansion rate of the different metals between the pan and the block, the gasket would disintegrate. The result in in your pickup screen

Symptom is when cold the gauge will come up, then drop off. It will be slow to show pressure. It may show pressure at idle, and drop as the engine revs.shady

 

[Fairlaniac]

re:

I was just getting ready to ask a question concerning something like that.
mine registers quickly and stays up for quite a while then the gauge just drops to the bottom like you turned the key off but the motor doesn't make any noise or lose power. is that what yours did???

Mine struggled to hit pressure when you started it. After it had pressure it stayed steady until I shut it off.

 

[stx4.0]

Thats impossible to be a common problem as far as the cork gaskets.Only the very early 4 cyl rangers used the cork gasket on the oil pan.I dont know about the 2.0s but all the 2.3 motors from 87 up use the aluminum oil pan with the one piece rubber seal that sits in a cast in groove.So being a common problem up to 92 would be wrong.In my opinion of course.

 

[scotts90ranger]

on the newer ones it's the rubber that seeps through the sides and ends up in the pickup screen, not cork but it's still the same outcome.

 

[feellnfroggy]

I might have seen th e picture wrong, but it looks like you are all right and wrong. The pick up screen seems to be clogged from some gasket, but I also see alot of shavings. Enough that it does not look normal.
I am assuming that the gradual decrease inpressure allowed for more engine wear and more metal shavings which clogged you up even faster compounding the problem.The faster is clogged teh faster is created mroe debris clogging it faster. I would also guess that this happened since the last oil change, as by draining the oil, even ithout flushing at least some of that would have be removed. Otherwise the oil hasnt been changed in a really long time.


Sorry about your motor man.

 

[Fairlaniac]

junk

Actually all of the material is the same as the oil pan gasket material. It feels the same, crumbles the same and loos the same. Thee is no ferrous metal in the screen as my magnet picked up nothing. There was some bits of blue RTV.

No heartbreak on the engine, I knew it's life was going to be short almost as soon as I got it home.