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my buddy has a check engine light on in his 96 ranger.. its a 4x4 4.0 auto
We picked the truck up with 73k about a month or so ago.. we took the intake manifold of to replace the valve cover gaskets.. after it was all back together truck ran decent.. well we noticed at idle some times it would just die expectingly.. so it finally through a code.. well the egr tube wasn't seated all the way so that was a easy fix.. truck ran awesome for about a week.. then it put out another code.. p1443.. well ive been doing a TON of reading an most are saying 99.9% of the time this code comes up because of the purge sensor.. well today we went to napa an got a new purge sensor.. put it on an cleared the code.. i have one of the code scanner tools.. about 2 miles later it came back on.. but one thing i noticed was the new sensor was IDENTICAL to the factory ford one.. looked like some one took a dremel an etched the ford an part number off it.. so after this light came back on i took the purge valve off my splash truck an put it on this other truck.. an the check engine light is still coming on.. i dont get why.. truck has a new gas cap so thats tight..
Could if be that the sensor that we got was junk to begin with?
Also would it hurt any if the line that comes off the sensor an goes to the intake is just plain ole rubber line or does it have to be that vacuum line stuff?
We picked the truck up with 73k about a month or so ago.. we took the intake manifold of to replace the valve cover gaskets.. after it was all back together truck ran decent.. well we noticed at idle some times it would just die expectingly.. so it finally through a code.. well the egr tube wasn't seated all the way so that was a easy fix.. truck ran awesome for about a week.. then it put out another code.. p1443.. well ive been doing a TON of reading an most are saying 99.9% of the time this code comes up because of the purge sensor.. well today we went to napa an got a new purge sensor.. put it on an cleared the code.. i have one of the code scanner tools.. about 2 miles later it came back on.. but one thing i noticed was the new sensor was IDENTICAL to the factory ford one.. looked like some one took a dremel an etched the ford an part number off it.. so after this light came back on i took the purge valve off my splash truck an put it on this other truck.. an the check engine light is still coming on.. i dont get why.. truck has a new gas cap so thats tight..
Could if be that the sensor that we got was junk to begin with?
Also would it hurt any if the line that comes off the sensor an goes to the intake is just plain ole rubber line or does it have to be that vacuum line stuff?