RangerReviver1990
Member
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2023
- Messages
- 49
- Reaction score
- 33
- Points
- 18
- Location
- North Carolina
- Vehicle Year
- 1990
- Make / Model
- Ranger XLT
- Engine Type
- 4.0 V6
- Engine Size
- 245ci
- Transmission
- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 4WD
- Total Lift
- 2’ Leveling Kit
- Tire Size
- 265/75
On Sunday, I was heading to work and usually I like to let my truck run for ~5 minutes before I leave to my engine can warm up just a little bit because it has a bad lifter chatter. But that day, it was struggling to stay running, it was like someone was gradually press the gas and then let off the gas, and it did this once in a while. So I thought if I at least got the truck running, my engine would kind of calm down. I throw it into reverse and I watch the tachometer shoot up to 2500 and then starts to move, and it only did it that one time. I shifted from Park, Reverse, and Drive a couple times but it just acted normal. I didn’t think nothing of it until I pulled into a turn off for a gas station and I smelt oil, like burnt oil, I pull into the gas station and notice smoke coming out of the hood, I opened up my hood and saw oil sprayed on the entire left side of my engine bay and a massive puddle of oil spewing out from under my truck. I had to abandon it in an empty parking lot until someone could tow it back to my house because it lost all of its oil. My suspicion is a crank seal or the oil pan gasket has blew out I can’t really see all that much because everything has oil on it. I know the 4.0 has leaking problems, but idk what happened. Anyone got any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated