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small-list Digest Wed, 05 Apr 2000 Volume: 2000 Issue: 041

In This Issue:
Ranger front end problems?
Re: Ranger front end problems?
99 Ranger Saga
Re: 2.8/2.9 Numbers

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From: wbrownlist mindspring.com

Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 12:41:09 -0400
Subject: Ranger front end problems?

I have a 94 Ranger (disguised as a B2300)

When I got it at 34k miles about 9 months ago, front tires were badly cupped/feathered (it went "wah wah wah" down the road)

Put on new tires (forget off the top of my head, one that's been mentioned on the list here) and had the thing aligned. Wasn't a dead-on alignment, but was within spec, and they said it was as close as they could get it.

Truck felt like it had some out-of-balance problems, but not severe enough for me to make time to take it back in to the shop. In the meantime I put on Monroe shocks, which helped the problem (about 50% better, SOTP) - nothing severe either way, and seemed somewhat intermittent, really depended on speed and road conditions, etc.

It's in now for inspection, and I asked to get the tires re-balanced. I'd noticed some slight feathering right after I put the new tires on, I thought... but I soon forgot about it and just drove the thing. Anyway, got a call back saying that the fronts are now fairly well feathered - he continued to say that he's seen this more than infrequently on Rangers. He noted that I am running 205's (I did that for snow) while OEM was 225 for that year, and was 215 in previous years. He said the 225's tend to fare better in this regard (ie not feather). He's not trying to sell me tires, and is going to put the thing back on the alignment rack to see what's up, and it any bad ....

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