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Howdy everyone,
I'm new to the forums and i've recently acquired a 1985 ford ranger 2.8l truck to get around in. The truck ran perfectly for the first few days, didn't miss a beat. then randomly on Saturday on a 30 min drive the engine cut out completely and i had to pull over, sounded like no fuel and i suspected the gage might by dicky so i had a friend bring some fuel out and i got the truck going again after a few tries. 300 feet down the road it cut out again and the engine hasn't started since.
She's definitely getting fuel i can see the jets spraying into the barrels when i flick the throttle so its a spark issue of some sort. the car was running perfectly prior to this with all slugs firing happily so i assume it's going to be coil or further backwards. stuck a screwdriver down one of the spark leads to check for spark to arc off the block to be sure and there wasn't anything. so first things first i went down and got a new coil. no go still no spark.
Started reading up on this site for some of the other guys that have come across it and found about the inertia switch. couldn't locate this on the internal firewall at all but i can see some plugs have been disconnected on the engine side so i think someone might have already removed it. Plus think the inertia switch cuts fuel not spark anyway. So now from what i'm reading the next thing could be the ignition control module, but i dont have much experience with that and i'm not sure where the ICM is. none of the pictures i can bring up from parts stores look like anything i can see under the hood.
My questions is basically i'm i going down the right path and does anyone know where the ICM is on an 85 ranger with a cologneV6 and what the hell it looks like.
Thanks in advance guys.
I'm new to the forums and i've recently acquired a 1985 ford ranger 2.8l truck to get around in. The truck ran perfectly for the first few days, didn't miss a beat. then randomly on Saturday on a 30 min drive the engine cut out completely and i had to pull over, sounded like no fuel and i suspected the gage might by dicky so i had a friend bring some fuel out and i got the truck going again after a few tries. 300 feet down the road it cut out again and the engine hasn't started since.
She's definitely getting fuel i can see the jets spraying into the barrels when i flick the throttle so its a spark issue of some sort. the car was running perfectly prior to this with all slugs firing happily so i assume it's going to be coil or further backwards. stuck a screwdriver down one of the spark leads to check for spark to arc off the block to be sure and there wasn't anything. so first things first i went down and got a new coil. no go still no spark.
Started reading up on this site for some of the other guys that have come across it and found about the inertia switch. couldn't locate this on the internal firewall at all but i can see some plugs have been disconnected on the engine side so i think someone might have already removed it. Plus think the inertia switch cuts fuel not spark anyway. So now from what i'm reading the next thing could be the ignition control module, but i dont have much experience with that and i'm not sure where the ICM is. none of the pictures i can bring up from parts stores look like anything i can see under the hood.
My questions is basically i'm i going down the right path and does anyone know where the ICM is on an 85 ranger with a cologneV6 and what the hell it looks like.
Thanks in advance guys.
