Christine_4.0xlt
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So my 1998 Ranger picked up an odd hitch in its stride so to speak. It started about 4 or 5 months ago and I've sort of been just living with it but its getting old. If I get on the gas fairly hard it has a short, jarring hesitation, at first I thought it was u-joint but everything checks out there. It doesn't seem to be a misfire because it only does it under heavy throttle conditions with no fault codes and runs just fine anytime else. It doesn't seem to be vacuum, I tried the carb clean on vacuum lines trick. And it doesn't seem like its a fuel pressure problem either. I've heard it might be a camshaft synchronizer problem, I guess it was a fairly common problem from 1990-2009 in most Ranger platforms.
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance