Strosfan5
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- Location
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- Vehicle Year
- 2003
- Make / Model
- Ford Ranger
- Transmission
- Automatic
Hi all,
New to this Ford Ranger world. Just purchased a 2003 Ranger (4 cyl auto) with 200k miles. Very clean and straight chassis.
Test drive went well. Starts right up, shifted fine, clean under the hood. Looks well taken care of unlike some trucks with that many miles. Rear diff even looks good.
Trucks shift “slightly” hard in all gears. I would call it a firm shift instead of a “hard kick” into next gear.
Today when starting it, CE light came on and while getting up to speed, had some slippage from 3rd to 4th (for the first time) A quick check at autozone pointed to faulty o2 sensor.
No big deal but would the o2 sensor have any relation at all to transmission issues? I understand it is a component of how the engine runs (and all things that would affect) but am unsure of anything past that.
Anyone have this same experience. My apologies if something this has been posted before - a quick search really didn’t come up with anything.
New to this Ford Ranger world. Just purchased a 2003 Ranger (4 cyl auto) with 200k miles. Very clean and straight chassis.
Test drive went well. Starts right up, shifted fine, clean under the hood. Looks well taken care of unlike some trucks with that many miles. Rear diff even looks good.
Trucks shift “slightly” hard in all gears. I would call it a firm shift instead of a “hard kick” into next gear.
Today when starting it, CE light came on and while getting up to speed, had some slippage from 3rd to 4th (for the first time) A quick check at autozone pointed to faulty o2 sensor.
No big deal but would the o2 sensor have any relation at all to transmission issues? I understand it is a component of how the engine runs (and all things that would affect) but am unsure of anything past that.
Anyone have this same experience. My apologies if something this has been posted before - a quick search really didn’t come up with anything.