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Got the last of the water out of the exhaust system. Lots of rumbles and grumbles, and some backfires. Found coolant dripping out the muffler drain hole after a lot of cranking/no starting. So, that's head gaskets at least, possibly warped heads, and given the two catastrophic cooling failures...

Good morning. I've got a timing cover leak and a slipped oil pan gasket on my 2001 B3000 DS (AKA Ranger Edge 3.0) and figure I might as well do both at once (plus timing set since I'll be in there anyway at ~235k mi). I have heard from one source that with the DS/Edge trucks (torsion bar front...

Definitely forward progress this morning. Cranked on a fresh battery and nothing at first, eventually I got a couple very hesitant very weak fires and heard a strong trickle of liquid. Bunch of water draining out the muffler drain hole. Figured there was maybe a bunch of water pooled in the...

Battery was low low low after all the pumping and cranking. I threw it on the charger and will get back to it tomorrow. I'll be happy if that's it. I need to get this thing started so I can drive it up by the shed to pull the oil pan and timing cover. :cautious:

Okay, I'm plumb out of ideas. Dried it out, put the plugs back in, crank no start. Hit WOT to disable fuel pump, cranked for a while to ventilate the cylinders, crank no start. Let it sit for a while, crank no start. Possible there's still bad gas that needs to work its way through?

5 gallons of fresh gas and a bottle of HEET in the tank. Pumped til fresh gas was coming out the old filter to purge the feed line, replaced filter, and popped a hose on the fuel rail pressure port with a hose pick stabbed through it to push the valve button. Purged til clean gas came out, then...

Got a break in the rain earlier. I got 10+ gallons out of the tank, all of it pretty much lightly gasoline scented water. Towards the very end I got a little bit of something that had enough gas in it to have visible fumes in the right light but still wouldn't burn. The friend driving it had...

It sat for a few days down the road before I could get to it. Crackheads must have poured in water to get past the siphon ball. The friend driving it when the water pump pulled had put a full tank in right before it blew and it's reading shy of a half. Sigh. Soon as I get a break in the rain...

Thanks for the speedy replies. I can't get a siphon hose down the neck (do these things have one of those anti-siphon balls?) but I figure I can grab the fuel line at the filter and run the pump. It only comes on for a second or two with key on - do you happen to know a handy way to jump the...

You are correct about the THEFT light, it does go off after Key On. Pulled a plug after cranking and hit it with a Bic - nothing. Left the plug out and stuffed a shop towel in, cranked til it was wet, still didn't ignite. Tried a healthy shot of carb cleaner down the throttle body and no...

Hello. The water pump on my B3000 recently blew up. Upon replacing it, and the water temp sensor, I have encountered a crank/no start. Diagnostics so far: Battery was ancient - replaced with new. Fuel pump comes on during key on, fuel pressure good. Battery voltage shown at +12v (red wire)...