What did you do to your Ranger today? (Part Deux!)

[alwaysFlOoReD]

There definitely is the likelihood that alloys are being used...

 

[scotts90ranger]

There definitely is the likelihood that alloys are being used...

The ol Microsoft method: "this has been working fine for decades, lets completely change it and make it worse"

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

That is fair, was just a theory of mine... not sure if I'm the only one... I do imagine with the price of lead increasing they have likely changed the alloy to something less desirable but cheaper... battery posts aren't as soft as they used to be so whatever does that...

I suspect it’s a lot of 3rd world hack processing. Zero quality control, zero care. Look at all the crap quality recycled stuff we get these days.

Wheel weights are not pure lead, they are an alloy and harder than pure lead. Common thing for casting bullets and fishing weights is to mix pure lead and wheel weights when you want harder lead.

 

[pacstud]

Refurbed driver's side weatherstripping. Ran silicone tubing through it, cleaned it and reset. Will do passenger side tomorrow. Even with heater, garage was too cold for both sides.

 

[mikkelstuff]

I'm still chasing down an intermittent miss in cylinder #4 of my 2002 4WD Ranger XLT 3.0L engine. The truck only throws a code when idling for a period of time, say a long wait at a stop light.

I changed out the coil pack which helped substantially but only for a week or so and now the pesky "check engine" light is on all too often.

So today I changed out the spark plugs - a pain for cylinders #3 and #4. It's been 10 1/2 years and only 51K miles since I changed them; however, they looked bad. The plug gap is supposed to be 0.042 to 0.046 inches. The #4 plug was the worst at about 0.060 inches.

Hopefully this will solve the problem. Otherwise i'll change out the plug wire set again.

 

[sgtsandman]

I moved the 2019 into the driveway since it was warm enough for the steering rack to unfreeze. With the extreme cold (for us) and the winds, heat from the engine wasn't enough to defrost the steering rack. It's more sheltered in the driveway. So, with some warm up time, it should be drivable, if needed.