Amont168
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Alright, so 6 years ago, I bought a frame, and built an 01 Ranger from junk yard parts, but a bit mixed and matched. I found an engine that ran intact (01) and put it on an 02 frame, with a 99 cab, 98 doors and an 03 grill.
It ran fine until the summer of 2012, and the radiator blew, which also caused most my heads to crack. I replaced the heads and gaskets in a month in the back yard, and got all the cylinders back to 140 PSI. Apparently the salvaged gasket I put on the passenger's side was bad, and ended up making me tear it back down at the start of the summer when my engine began pushing my coolant out the exhaust (Large cloud of steam our the tail pipe.)
Since I've taken it back down, I've changed both heads, both gaskets, placed new oil pumps, fuel pumps, radiator, air filters, and a new injector on cylinder 3.
But one of the strange things about that intact engine I found is it's wired backwards... Instead of the coil pack running from slot 1 to cylinder 1, it's flipped.
EX: Coil pack spot 1 goes to cylinder 6, coil pack 2 goes to cylinder 5, coil pack 5 goes to cylinder 2. It won't run without everything being flipped backwards.
But the problem that needs fixed now, that I can't seem to figure out is on Cylinder 3.
I put a new spark plug in it, new injector, new coil pack, new spark plug wires, new head, and a new gasket, but when you run the engine for maybe a minute, the spark plug comes out pure black. You can even pull that spark plug out and it runs just as good(well badly) as it does with it in. I've got no idea how to fix it this time, but I have a hunch it has something to do with the weird way it's wired, however I have no idea how to correct that, nor do any of my mechanic friends that work at shops. I've had a total of 5 people try to figure it out, and were all clueless to that part of the systems.
Any help that might steer this repair in the right direction would be much appreciated, I need to have it running before it starts getting cold again, currently my only mode of transportation is a motorcycle, and that will freeze me going to college.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can provide some feed back.
Also, it's a V6, 3.0L
It ran fine until the summer of 2012, and the radiator blew, which also caused most my heads to crack. I replaced the heads and gaskets in a month in the back yard, and got all the cylinders back to 140 PSI. Apparently the salvaged gasket I put on the passenger's side was bad, and ended up making me tear it back down at the start of the summer when my engine began pushing my coolant out the exhaust (Large cloud of steam our the tail pipe.)
Since I've taken it back down, I've changed both heads, both gaskets, placed new oil pumps, fuel pumps, radiator, air filters, and a new injector on cylinder 3.
But one of the strange things about that intact engine I found is it's wired backwards... Instead of the coil pack running from slot 1 to cylinder 1, it's flipped.
EX: Coil pack spot 1 goes to cylinder 6, coil pack 2 goes to cylinder 5, coil pack 5 goes to cylinder 2. It won't run without everything being flipped backwards.
But the problem that needs fixed now, that I can't seem to figure out is on Cylinder 3.
I put a new spark plug in it, new injector, new coil pack, new spark plug wires, new head, and a new gasket, but when you run the engine for maybe a minute, the spark plug comes out pure black. You can even pull that spark plug out and it runs just as good(well badly) as it does with it in. I've got no idea how to fix it this time, but I have a hunch it has something to do with the weird way it's wired, however I have no idea how to correct that, nor do any of my mechanic friends that work at shops. I've had a total of 5 people try to figure it out, and were all clueless to that part of the systems.
Any help that might steer this repair in the right direction would be much appreciated, I need to have it running before it starts getting cold again, currently my only mode of transportation is a motorcycle, and that will freeze me going to college.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can provide some feed back.
Also, it's a V6, 3.0L