Three6ohchris
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- Vancouver, WA
- Vehicle Year
- 2000
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- V6
- Transmission
- Manual
First, I have a 2000 Ranger XLT 4 x 4 3.0 V6.
So for the last month or so, my ABS light has been coming on sporadically. At first it would just be the light, it would come on and then just stay on. After a while though that stopped happening and the light would just come on for a minute,then my speedo would rev all the way up then go down to zero and then go back to normal and the light would come off. Now it will do that but it will also act like the truck dies. If I'm driving at a decent speed there's this little hick up then when the light turns off everything is normal. If I'm going slower the truck will buck and feel like it's not wanting to keep going and if I'm going slow enough it will flat out die. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the light coming on... sometimes it'll do it if I hit a bump, sometimes I can be going on a flat road. I replaced the ABS sensor on the top of my diff. Even replaced the wire harness. I checked the square wiring plug underneath my seat under the truck for corrosion. Is this issue something that could be caused by the front ABS sensors as well? That's my next stop but I just wanted to find out if anybody could offer some suggestions. I have checked their connectors near my bumper but not at the hubs. I've done research to try and figure this out but I haven't seen anything to tell me that it was coming from the front end because of the speedo issue and I haven't seen anybody say anything about the stalling issues I'm having.
Any help or thoughts and suggestions would be really appreciated. I'm about to trade this thing in because I just can't take the problem that's causing me anymore. It's been one thing after another it seems like. I love this truck but I don't think it's worth the headaches anymore.
So for the last month or so, my ABS light has been coming on sporadically. At first it would just be the light, it would come on and then just stay on. After a while though that stopped happening and the light would just come on for a minute,then my speedo would rev all the way up then go down to zero and then go back to normal and the light would come off. Now it will do that but it will also act like the truck dies. If I'm driving at a decent speed there's this little hick up then when the light turns off everything is normal. If I'm going slower the truck will buck and feel like it's not wanting to keep going and if I'm going slow enough it will flat out die. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the light coming on... sometimes it'll do it if I hit a bump, sometimes I can be going on a flat road. I replaced the ABS sensor on the top of my diff. Even replaced the wire harness. I checked the square wiring plug underneath my seat under the truck for corrosion. Is this issue something that could be caused by the front ABS sensors as well? That's my next stop but I just wanted to find out if anybody could offer some suggestions. I have checked their connectors near my bumper but not at the hubs. I've done research to try and figure this out but I haven't seen anything to tell me that it was coming from the front end because of the speedo issue and I haven't seen anybody say anything about the stalling issues I'm having.
Any help or thoughts and suggestions would be really appreciated. I'm about to trade this thing in because I just can't take the problem that's causing me anymore. It's been one thing after another it seems like. I love this truck but I don't think it's worth the headaches anymore.
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