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- Location
- Texas
- Vehicle Year
- '99 4.0+'98 2.5
- Make / Model
- Ford Rangers
- Engine Type
- 4.0 V6
- Engine Size
- 4.0 & 2.5
- Transmission
- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 4WD
Looking at a plain jane 1996 Ranger for light practical purposes-homedepot runs, occasional what not.
4.0L Automatic
103k miles
Owned by an octogenarian & serviced on time. It's pretty clean, shows no sign of abuse.
My major concern:
Trany is overfilled and has a wet spot ... may be a 5-6 inch wide area after being parked for 6 hours.
Truck has the get-go and responds. During test drive it has a slightly hard shift from 1-2, 2-3 then it's smooth as butter thereafter. When driving like an octogenarian this is not very apparent. But when you take it through the paces while hitting the highway or just a get up go yeah it's there (I wasn't aware to look at the tachometer behavior at the time.)
The other was a serpentine belt noise, happens at cranking when had been sitting for 6 hours but stops right after engine is running. After it warmed up there's no more belt noise with cranking. My wing man (long time p/up owner) said it's pro'ly loose somewhere, owners son thought it's may be a tad bit tight.
I diy my Camry and wife's C240, but know zilch about Fords. I have been reading up about this truck's trany and I don't know what to make of this, and the belt noise issue.
Is this trans at the onset of a known, impending trany problem and I will be better off walking? Or is this something that can be addressed at reasonable cost and not like a grand or two? We agreed on $1800 and I am not a fan of dropping big $$ on tranys so any input from ranger heads will be helpful in deciding on this deal.
4.0L Automatic
103k miles
Owned by an octogenarian & serviced on time. It's pretty clean, shows no sign of abuse.
My major concern:
Trany is overfilled and has a wet spot ... may be a 5-6 inch wide area after being parked for 6 hours.
Truck has the get-go and responds. During test drive it has a slightly hard shift from 1-2, 2-3 then it's smooth as butter thereafter. When driving like an octogenarian this is not very apparent. But when you take it through the paces while hitting the highway or just a get up go yeah it's there (I wasn't aware to look at the tachometer behavior at the time.)
The other was a serpentine belt noise, happens at cranking when had been sitting for 6 hours but stops right after engine is running. After it warmed up there's no more belt noise with cranking. My wing man (long time p/up owner) said it's pro'ly loose somewhere, owners son thought it's may be a tad bit tight.
I diy my Camry and wife's C240, but know zilch about Fords. I have been reading up about this truck's trany and I don't know what to make of this, and the belt noise issue.
Is this trans at the onset of a known, impending trany problem and I will be better off walking? Or is this something that can be addressed at reasonable cost and not like a grand or two? We agreed on $1800 and I am not a fan of dropping big $$ on tranys so any input from ranger heads will be helpful in deciding on this deal.
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