My Mom has a 99 Ranger with the 3.0L Flexfuel with 57k miles.
My Dad never maintained anything until it was broke, and even then he's try and leave it broke.
I've been helping my Mom as much as I can fixing all the broken stuff around the house, and there's a lot.
The pickup runs great, only has 3200 miles on a tuneup (I did 3 years ago). I've been driving it off & on to get it moving again, and after replacing the little things that were giving way, (idler pully, belt, battery, flush, all hoses, etc..) The truck runs pretty nicely. I brought it down for a smog yesterday, and it aced it..
0.00% for HC and CO, NOx was max 142 (750 allowed).
I've run SI-1 in in several times over the past 5 months to get things cleaning, it's never had e-85 in the tank (although I really want to try it out!)
The next big issue is the gas mileage. It's flat out horrible. I took it for a week, and barely was able to get 235 miles out of 14gal. of fuel.
I used cruise control whenever possible and never went over 70. No jackrabbit starts, and I let the engine warm up for about 90 seconds before I took off.
My Dad told me it does pretty good if you don't go over 60. Well the speed limit is 65, and it's hard to do that sometimes.
I would think it should get at least 325 or more out of a tank?
Is it just me or is this normal? The only thing that I didn't change was the plug wires.. they're still factory motorcraft and if they were an issue, the CEL would've lit for something. Could it the 3.0 just doesn't have enough oomph to move that truck with ease? It's an Automatic tranny. it doesn't do to well accelerating, but it's only been at the dealer to have 2 dashboard lights replaced (under warranty). Otherwise, it's been to whereever my dad found a cheap oil change place. My Mom knows better, so now that he's passed, I get to keep things going. Needless to say, I thought I'd enjoy it, but I really don't all that much.
My Dad never maintained anything until it was broke, and even then he's try and leave it broke.
I've been helping my Mom as much as I can fixing all the broken stuff around the house, and there's a lot.
The pickup runs great, only has 3200 miles on a tuneup (I did 3 years ago). I've been driving it off & on to get it moving again, and after replacing the little things that were giving way, (idler pully, belt, battery, flush, all hoses, etc..) The truck runs pretty nicely. I brought it down for a smog yesterday, and it aced it..
0.00% for HC and CO, NOx was max 142 (750 allowed).
I've run SI-1 in in several times over the past 5 months to get things cleaning, it's never had e-85 in the tank (although I really want to try it out!)
The next big issue is the gas mileage. It's flat out horrible. I took it for a week, and barely was able to get 235 miles out of 14gal. of fuel.
I used cruise control whenever possible and never went over 70. No jackrabbit starts, and I let the engine warm up for about 90 seconds before I took off.
My Dad told me it does pretty good if you don't go over 60. Well the speed limit is 65, and it's hard to do that sometimes.
I would think it should get at least 325 or more out of a tank?
Is it just me or is this normal? The only thing that I didn't change was the plug wires.. they're still factory motorcraft and if they were an issue, the CEL would've lit for something. Could it the 3.0 just doesn't have enough oomph to move that truck with ease? It's an Automatic tranny. it doesn't do to well accelerating, but it's only been at the dealer to have 2 dashboard lights replaced (under warranty). Otherwise, it's been to whereever my dad found a cheap oil change place. My Mom knows better, so now that he's passed, I get to keep things going. Needless to say, I thought I'd enjoy it, but I really don't all that much.
