Highest mileage 4-Banger
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Highest mileage 4-Banger
Woundering how many miles you guy's have on your 2.3 four cylinder Rangers. Bought my 1986 Ranger in 1987 with 30000 mls. When I bought the truck I thought the engine would never last as hard as it has to work to pull the truck around. But I now have 240,000 mls and it still runs as good as new except the drive train is getting a bit loose. Have only done oil changes, timming belts one ignition module and just general stuff. Same clutch and it even has the original alternator. Eather Ford's was doing a good job building trucks back in the 80's or I just got lucky with this one. Now way im letting this one go. Plus it gets 27MPG.
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I have a 88 ranger 5spd OD 2.0 liter (almost the same as the 2.3) The epa advertized that it got 22mpg city/ 24mpg highway
For some reason the 2.3 was rated 24/26 mpg...
How does yours get 27? and is that highway or (god forbid) city?
Mine was getting 10mpg, although I fixed a vacuum leak recently and it's running much better. I think it gets 17mpg now...
By the way, my truck has at least 225,000 miles, although there's a good chance the odometer has lapped itself 3 times, putting it at 325,000
I bought it for $350 =)
For some reason the 2.3 was rated 24/26 mpg...
How does yours get 27? and is that highway or (god forbid) city?
Mine was getting 10mpg, although I fixed a vacuum leak recently and it's running much better. I think it gets 17mpg now...
By the way, my truck has at least 225,000 miles, although there's a good chance the odometer has lapped itself 3 times, putting it at 325,000
I bought it for $350 =)
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The price was right when you bought the truck but some thing is seriously wrong if your only getting 10 MPG. If it's going out the tail pipe it should be smoking pretty good. Mine has been getting 27 MPG with a combo of city and highway driving and thats been for 19 years now. Might want to get that checked out.
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I can pull 27-28 out of mine pretty consistently on the highway in the summer. I don't drive fast, usually cruise around 62-65, which I'm sure helps a lot. The engine itself has never been touched, except maintenance and still runs pretty good. I've got a funny noise in the valvetrain that I probably ought to look at sometime soon, but it doesn't sound on the verge of self-destruction. Truck burns less than half a quart of oil between 5,000 mile changes, too.
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Wow. I thought my '96 was doing good with 166k... I have an automatic though and I did have to put a transmission in it but that was my fault.
What kind of oil are y'all using?
I try to do the oil changes at 3,000 miles.
What kind of oil are y'all using?
I try to do the oil changes at 3,000 miles.
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Okay, so we don't want to look through 933 posts to figure out who has the highest mileage Ranger.
How about this. Only post here if you are sporting over 300K miles or 475K km.
And it has to be your truck. It can't be a friend who said his truck has 500,000 miles. It's gotta be you. Evidence would be an great!
How about this. Only post here if you are sporting over 300K miles or 475K km.
And it has to be your truck. It can't be a friend who said his truck has 500,000 miles. It's gotta be you. Evidence would be an great!
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my dads f-250 (off topic i know) reads 631,000 on the computer but the dash says 300 something because it quit working for years then started working out of the blue
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Doh!
Originally Posted by Tiggie
Okay, so we don't want to look through 933 posts to figure out who has the highest mileage Ranger.
How about this. Only post here if you are sporting over 300K miles or 475K km.
And it has to be your truck. It can't be a friend who said his truck has 500,000 miles. It's gotta be you. Evidence would be an great!
How about this. Only post here if you are sporting over 300K miles or 475K km.
And it has to be your truck. It can't be a friend who said his truck has 500,000 miles. It's gotta be you. Evidence would be an great!
Can't speak to 300K miles, but I got one thats sneaking up on a quarter million miles though...
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Originally Posted by SMiddleton
The price was right when you bought the truck but some thing is seriously wrong if your only getting 10 MPG. If it's going out the tail pipe it should be smoking pretty good. Mine has been getting 27 MPG with a combo of city and highway driving and thats been for 19 years now. Might want to get that checked out.
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And I don't smell any gas anywhere around it either...
Last edited by jason867; Nov 18, 2006 at 07:19 AM.
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