I'm sure I got a short.

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

My brother has 9 different vehicles at his house And not even 1 of them is in his garage.

Only 1 of them is reliable enough to be daily driver.
1 other 1 was a daily driver until about a week and a half ago. We used a friend's garage to change the tie rod ends.
And we didn't want to take up too much of the guy's time or garage space and wasn't able to finish the alignment properly.
So once we align it properly it'll be a daily driver again.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

So my brother told me, my truck has a 15 gallon gas tank. With my gas gauge not working I've been just counting miles.
I've been doing conservative 10 miles per gallon.
I'm sure my truck gets better gas mileage than that but better safe than sorry.

So today I went to the gas station to put some gas in my truck gave the clerk 25 dollars went out got to $21.00 and gas started coming out the neck.

So I guess we can say I filled up my tank. Lol.

 

[Brain75]

I looked over the EPA's listing for economy and all the 4 bangers get better MPG, the diesel (early 80's) 4 bangers get fantastic MPG, and all the V6's from the very first one to the current 2025 all get 20 mpg +/- nothing .. the differences are insignificant, like less than 10% (2 mpg). so being a 4.0 I would bet you get between 15 and 20 depending on CEL problems and maintenance issues (dirty IAC). kinda irritating that the FFV or the brand new 2025 have really no better MPG than the 35 year old stuff.

 

[Brain75]

I always carried a 1 gal jug full of gas when I was doing the odometer method - just kept me from having a bad bad day. whenever you fill it up, put the old in and refill the jug so the 1 gal is not getting really stale.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

My brother also let me borrow his fire stick to watch YouTube videos.
I've been looking for videos on how to remove my instrument cluster.
I see in some of the videos guys have a speedometer cable and some of them don't.

I've also been looking for a video that shows me how to replace the capacitor on my anti slosh module.
But I can't find one.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I agree with keeping a gallon can of gas handy and rotating it out.
However me being dumb like I am at times I let my brother use the gallon I had in the can in the bed and today I forgot to put a gallon back in it. Lol.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

So Brain while your checking in, I got another question.
Can I take my anti slosh module out of my truck. Put the instrument cluster back in and everything back together. And drive my truck without the slosh module being in there?

That way I'll know exactly what it looks like if I go to the junkyard and try and get another one.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

And once again I need to know what some of your abbreviations mean.
So what does,
CEL
IAC
&
FFV
mean?

 

[Brain75]

CEL - Check Engine Light
IAC - Intake Air Cleaner (your air filter)
FFV - Flex Fuel Vehicle (can run on E85)

the basics of replacing caps is easy. A) use the exact same micro farrad rating B) use the same voltage OR HIGHER - never lower. C) get the polarity right (big silver stripe on the side is the negative leg).

There is one other thing that makes it harder too - getting the wrong style. Axial capacitors have the leads going out the head and the butt of the thing - the flow of power runs through them axially. Radially have both legs coming out the bottom. If you get the wrong one all it means is it is harder/impossible to get the leads soldered in right depending on the board design.
I'll see if I can find a quick video on replacing caps, you probably wont find one specific to the slosh module, but just a generic replacing them on any circuit board.

As far as running w/o the slosh module I can't think of any reason it would hurt anything... you definitely wont have a working fuel gauge and you might not have a working oil pressure gauge (later years ran both through that board for some reason)

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I just thought of something I can always just take it out take pictures of it. Put it back in, cuz I got to put everything back together to drive the vehicle anyways. Then I'll have to take it apart again anyways to put a new one or different one in.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

Thanks for the explanation of the abbreviations.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

So is it mostly always a bad capacitor. What about the diodes? Or something else?
I think I might should look for videos on testing capacitors and Diodes both.

 

[Brain75]

Dunno, just know that what I have read and saw on youtube over and over and over again is that caps from the 80's 90's and especially around y2k (when everyone quit using nice japanese caps and started using cheap chinese) are terrible for dying after 30+ years.... and separately I have seen it repeated over and over that on the slosh module it is usually the cap.

I'm still running on 1990, 103k miles and never touched it... honestly just about everything has never been touched.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

Okay thanks.

It is nice when you have a nice reliable vehicle that you don't have to touch.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I got 2,
Slosh module from the junkyard.
I took 1 out of a 93 Ranger.
And
1 out out of a 92 Explorer.
They look very similar to each other the only difference is two different capacitors it looks like to me.