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I've been having issues with my ranger for the past coupl days. I'm running out of ideas. I think I may have it narrowed down but I would like to get other opinions before I do anything else.
Ok, here is some background on the truck. Its a 97 Ranger 3.0 5spd. Just turned 180,000 miles. It has never given me any major problems until now. It is 100% stock.
It runs rough and has a miss from right off idle untill around 3,000 rpm. It gets worse if the motor is under load. I've had to do alot more downshifting than normal. It is worse on gas than normal. I scanned the CEL and it gave me p0174. Bank 2 lean (drivers side) I've cleared it several times and it still has a miss and after 10-25 miles the CEL comes back on. Sometimes the miss is hardly noticable while other times its terrible. It starts up like normal and doesn't stall or anything like that either.
Here is what I've done in the past two nights. I swapped out the coil pack with 2 different spares I had, neither made any difference. My plugs and wires were only about 6 months and 10,000 miles old. But I changed the plugs again anyway. 5 of the plugs looked normal and white but the back cylinder (#6) on the drivers side was black and carboned up. So I figured that is the cylinder that has the problem. I then changed fuel filter and ran a pressure test. I have 40psi @ the rail. I'm suppose to be between 35-45psi. I then cleaned the MAS and IAC sensors. That didn't help either. I checked the air intake tube for cracks and it is good. I then spayed several cans of starting fluid around the gasket areas of the upper and lower intakes and on all the vaccum lines I couldn't find any leaks. I do not have any exhaust leaks before the o2 sensors either. I then started thinking maybe my plug wire coule be bad. So I swapped the one from the cylinder #6 with a wires from a parts truck. Nither of the wires made a difference.
I'm running out of options as to what it could be. I doubt it is an o2 sensor causing this. I'm thinking that it's the injector but I could be wrong. I don't know of any way to test these and I don't want to just change it on a hunch. I'll have to pull the upper intake to swap it and I'd like to avoid buying gaskets and wasing time wrenching if it's not the problem.
If it is the injector, could I swap in one from a 94 4.0 engine? I have a whole set from a parts truck.
Ok, here is some background on the truck. Its a 97 Ranger 3.0 5spd. Just turned 180,000 miles. It has never given me any major problems until now. It is 100% stock.
It runs rough and has a miss from right off idle untill around 3,000 rpm. It gets worse if the motor is under load. I've had to do alot more downshifting than normal. It is worse on gas than normal. I scanned the CEL and it gave me p0174. Bank 2 lean (drivers side) I've cleared it several times and it still has a miss and after 10-25 miles the CEL comes back on. Sometimes the miss is hardly noticable while other times its terrible. It starts up like normal and doesn't stall or anything like that either.
Here is what I've done in the past two nights. I swapped out the coil pack with 2 different spares I had, neither made any difference. My plugs and wires were only about 6 months and 10,000 miles old. But I changed the plugs again anyway. 5 of the plugs looked normal and white but the back cylinder (#6) on the drivers side was black and carboned up. So I figured that is the cylinder that has the problem. I then changed fuel filter and ran a pressure test. I have 40psi @ the rail. I'm suppose to be between 35-45psi. I then cleaned the MAS and IAC sensors. That didn't help either. I checked the air intake tube for cracks and it is good. I then spayed several cans of starting fluid around the gasket areas of the upper and lower intakes and on all the vaccum lines I couldn't find any leaks. I do not have any exhaust leaks before the o2 sensors either. I then started thinking maybe my plug wire coule be bad. So I swapped the one from the cylinder #6 with a wires from a parts truck. Nither of the wires made a difference.
I'm running out of options as to what it could be. I doubt it is an o2 sensor causing this. I'm thinking that it's the injector but I could be wrong. I don't know of any way to test these and I don't want to just change it on a hunch. I'll have to pull the upper intake to swap it and I'd like to avoid buying gaskets and wasing time wrenching if it's not the problem.
If it is the injector, could I swap in one from a 94 4.0 engine? I have a whole set from a parts truck.