glfredrick
I am interested in your post about turing it into a manual t-case. have any pics to post up?
Ryan

 

hay guys I'n not a ranger owner I gotta f250 but my good buddy is a huge ranger fan and we have replaced every thing from the front hubs to the rebuilding the t-case.the best thing we have done to is narrow a 44 hi pinion and a 9in for the rear with 4.10's we found it to be a bullet proof set up if done right.
O and what manual **** t-case do the older rangers have?I'v seen some older ones and never crawled under to read the tag

 

i geuss I misted the f in shift. and it came out bad.sorry

 

I just bought the truck about 2 months ago, and had used the 4wd a few times, but it is like sometimes it would kick in and sometimes it would'nt, will all 4 wheels spin at the same time?

 

how do I tell if the lockouts are working? I have used it a few times, but it just seemed like like sometime it would kick in, but all 4 tires was'nt spining, how much do these lock outs cost?

 

you can check the lockouts by engauging the 4 wheel drive and either taking the front drive shaft loose and trying to turn it or lifting a wheel of the ground and see if it turns. if it turns ur lockouts are bad. im thinking you have vacuum lock outs but someone will correct me if im wrong. these are troublesome in the rangers and im hopefull that is your problem because its usually a gentle fix

Matt
p.s. can you hear the 4 wheel drive engage? turn the truck off and turn the key on and see if you can hear the motor

 

when I turn the switch to engage the 4wd, I can hear like a few clicking noises sounds like a relay or something, do you know how much the lock outs cost? How do I tell if I have vacum lockouts?

 

not sure. i wouldnt worry about prices until you locate the problem. its easy to eliminate or confirm your lockouts

Matt

 

I will check the to see if I can hear the motor in the morning, or is that the clicks that I hear?

 

well I checked this morning, yes I hear the motor, and I can hear the clicks of the engage part on the T-case, so the motor is switching into 4HI and 4LOW

 

next you could check to see if the lockouts are / arnt working. you might be able to look and see which wheel the lockouts arnt working on.

Matt

 

You likely need new hubs. the automatic enguagement ripps the hubs apart slowly. go on ebay, get manual hubs, with the auto to manual conversion kit. it'll cost $200, but well worth it, because you'll never worry about the hubs again. you can also enguage 4wd AFTER you get stuck.

 

The pulse vacume system is very promlematic on 98-2000 rangers, the only good perminate fix, is a set of AVM manual hubs. You can purchase them from tellico4x4.com for 98.95 a set. AVM are the only ones that make manual hubs for the pulse vacume rangers. On the older ranger 4x4's with auto hubs, you can get manual hubs from warn. The 2 most common things to go wrong are the electric shift motor and the auto hubs.

 

I am having a simular problem with the module, but the light will blink about 3 to 4 times. I have read elsewhere that this means it is working properly. Anyone know for sure?

Thanks.

 

where is the module located at?