vacustode03
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- Dec 4, 2015
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- Vehicle Year
- 1992
- Transmission
- Manual
So lately I've been having some issues with stalling. I'll start with the beginning. Last winter when it was cold, my truck would occasionally throw a check engine light and it didn't seem like it really effected anything. What I mean is it didn't run any differently or do anything it didn't usually do other than the tach would show about half the rpms I was running. All I did when this happened was shut the truck off then started it back and CEL would be off. Then spring and summer came and no CEL. Now it has started to get cold again and CEL started coming back. Again this didn't bother me too bad, but I started to have other problems. Lately I've noticed that when I go out in the morning to start my truck early and get it warmed up before leaving, I'd come back out and my truck would have stalled. Then one day at a red light while idling it stalled and wouldn't start back till 2 green lights later. Since then, I'll be driving and when I'm coasting downhill and all the sudden I have no gas response kinda like it stalled but I'm in gear so the truck doesn't just shut down unless I push in the clutch in, at which point it will stutter to a stall. When I'm coasting downhill and this happens, I can quickly turn the key to the off position then back on and everything is normal again. It also does this when I come to a stop. It doesn't always do this at the stop itself but as I'm pulling out from the stop it likes to do it then as well. I've gotten to the point where I will go ahead and shut it off, coast to the stop start it back up and it doesn't give me problems at stops. I don't know if the earlier CEL thing is related to this stalling thing but I had the codes checked and it didn't really show anything but something about a bad coil. I figured that was because I had the exhaust plug wires swapped around for that better fuel economy mod (that I don't think really works anyway so I swapped them back). Since swapping them back I haven't had codes checked. I did swap out the IAC out with another one I had didn't seem to do anything. I looked at the inertia switch and it looked okay, no melting on the plug or anything. What do you guys think?
1992 ford ranger 4x4 2.3l 8 plug
1992 ford ranger 4x4 2.3l 8 plug
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