This is killing me

[fordfx435]

I have a 2000 ford ranger 2.5L and it will accelerate on its own when I kick in the clutch. Everytime I get a chance to pull over to check it when its happening it stops any suggetions?

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

maybe cleaning the maf and the throttle body, that happened to the 93 we had.
hope it helps

 

[beenjammin]

Hey, I've had the same problem in the past and it came back and I fixed it again. For me it was the IAC. The truck would rev up when the clutch was pressed in. It would happen a few times in a row then be ok and eventually do it again during a drive. About a year after I originally replaced it the issue came back, much to my dismay, and I have gone the past 2 or 3 months without replacing it. I just learned to deal with it by down shifting (or upshifting as the case may be) but it burns the hell out of a clutch and wastes gas. So I finally replaced the IAC yesterday and everything is cool again. I am keeping the old one and cleaning it (there's threads on how to do that somewhere) so that if/when the new one starts acting up I can just swap them out, clean the dirty one, and repeat. If this didn't fix it I would have moved next to the MAF. I got the IAC for $40 at autozone.
Another thing you may notice is that you get no compression braking from your engine, like if your going downhill it will cause you to accelerate at a quicker pace than normal without using the accelerator.
Hope that helps.