- Joined
- Oct 25, 2025
- Messages
- 5
- Points
- 1
- City
- Greeley
- State - Country
- CO - USA
- Vehicle Year
- 1990
- Vehicle
- Ford Ranger
- Drive
- 2WD
- Engine
- 2.3 (4 Cylinder)
- Transmission
- Manual
- Total Drop
- 4in
- Tire Size
- 235/75R17
My 2.3 will not start period. For some context piston rings were in poor shape as I was burning almost a quart of oil in a few days (it was running on hopes and dreams) finally decided to rebuild the engine and add a turbo kit intended for the thunderbird and ranger since its almost the same engine minus the emissions stuff and the dual ignition system. Now it’s just a tiny .63m turbo and has all the necessary oil lines and everything to run how it should, that’s not the problem. I originally had an issue with no spark and found out I washed the rings out with gas rebuilt the engine a second time whilst fixing the cps hub since I found it was damaged an the cps wasn’t reading properly. Now for all the stuff I deleted was a majority of the vacuum lines the ones going to the egr valve and the one going to the intake from the vacuum solenoid deleted the egr valve and installed a block plate and an emulator to plug into the harness. I deleted it simply because there was no where to install it to the exhaust manifold. I also deleted the pcv system and installed an oil catch can. I have compression, spark, fuel and air I just can’t figure out why it won’t even give me anything. Just need some help pointed in the right direction, sorry for the essay.
