Ranger fuel problems
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From: northern minnesota
Ranger fuel problems
My sons 87 ranger died coming into town today,seems to be a fuel problem. He got towed home and when we tried to start it it ran fine.But here is what its doing,The fuel rail is leaking where the fuel pressure sensor is,before my son had this truck my dad owned it. He tried to fix the leaky fuel rail by putting some JB weld on the leak.Now it drips and when you go down the road for a while it seems like its starving for gas,could what my dad did be the problem or is something else wrong. 87 ranger 4cyl 5speed.
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Well the fire hazzard alone calls for a fix of the fuel rail leak.
Maybe a call to the local salvage yards would be in order, if you need another rail.
A leak in the fuel rail sure wouldn't make it run any better, so I'd fix that & see how it goes.
With the vintage of this ride he may have another problem, but you know for sure the fuel rail leak is real & depending on how bad it is, it may be masking or aggrivating something else like the fuel pressure to the injectors, or fuel pump delivery, ect, so I'd address that known problem first.
Maybe a call to the local salvage yards would be in order, if you need another rail.
A leak in the fuel rail sure wouldn't make it run any better, so I'd fix that & see how it goes.
With the vintage of this ride he may have another problem, but you know for sure the fuel rail leak is real & depending on how bad it is, it may be masking or aggrivating something else like the fuel pressure to the injectors, or fuel pump delivery, ect, so I'd address that known problem first.
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From: Ishpeming Mi.
+I agree with PAWPAW, start there and it that doesn't fix the problem replace the fuel filter. After that parts start getting expensive so a diagnosis will be in order. Testing is cheaper than throwing money into unnecessary parts.
