WIll it Start? 1997 Ford Ranger Pickup

[mickwi5]

I've got a 1996 with close to 300k going on it. It runs better than that xD

[josh198869]

do you think you could have held in the starter a little more and way to go rev a motor that has not ran in 2 months i bet thats really good for it

[Bonerburry]

@ib7510 I realize you might have 93's, but this is a 97! The speedos changed in 96. The 97's have 6 digit odometers, while the 93's have a five digit with a tenths counter.

[surikan1]

Damn you people so dum. All car pretty much the same . Just some spining thing inside. No car is darn better better than any other. American car have more horsepower , bigger, tougher than Japanese car thank to your retardness.

Here a little business and history lesson

back than american invented car and japanese decide oh we gonna make some car. So then they cannot make the same thing as the american so they improve by making the car out of copper, tin, aluminum for better weather resistant.

[BigKush1596]

there were more light on the dash then a Christmas tree

[mitch9521]

dont see these without tachs very often

[SteelCity1981]

Ford Rangers are work horses!

[JoeLil1993]

And that's why youi should keep your ford pick up truck. They are always dependable.

[badmonk3829]

this is obviously an automatic because it has no tach

[auaiao9]

@badmonk3829 Some automatics have tachs. My 5 speed stick shift car doesn't have one. Go figure.

[thewhofan99]

@badmonk3829 you don't know that for sure. my 94 had no tach and it was a stick

[1776Filmz]

Why is the temperature gauge at operating temperature?

[foxmoto17]

what size toolbox is that?

[Foleyman24]

I never quite understood why Ford did the gauges the way they did. I have the same truck, 4 cylinder 2.3 liter but its stick. Speedometer starts at 10 and no Tachometer. Over 133,000 miles and runs like a champ!

[Slipknotyk06]

@Foleyman24 - The cheaper the truck, the less info that is displayed on the gauge panel.

the speedo is a bit strange, but you can still tell when you're moving 5MPH as that's the moment at which your needle rises off the rest.

My 4.0 4X4 with Trac-Loc from an FX4 had a tach from the factory.

Here's some comfort for ya

My Ranger had 236K, and ran like a top.

[ib7510]

You dont have 250,000 miles on it. It's a five digit odometer. you either have 024,153 miles on it, 124,153 miles on it. Or 224,153 and so on. People confuse a the 5 and 6 digit odometers up. the white number at the end on the odometer is in between miles.

[Bonerburry]

@ib7510 He does have 241,538 miles on it! For these Ford Rangers, it is a 6 digit odometer that does NOT have tenths digits displayed. Only the top trip odometer shows a running tenths digits.

[ib7510]

@Bonerburry wrong. ive had 2 93 ford rangers i would know... look it up its 5 digit odo

[aaronm8604]

@ib7510 ummm wrong.... i owned a 2000 ranger it has a 6 digit odometer without a doubt you are wrong

[ib7510]

@aaronm8604 because it's a 2000 idiot. In 1993 they had 5 digit.

[wakaflockadillon]

i had the same truck. Never started. It only started when it had a 3/4tth a tank of gas. Sold it.

[ahhitsbilly]

he just wanted the scooter!!! lmfao

[fletcherhf73]

will it start? that is the question.

[FranceHopper]

Sounds like my Infinity G20 before it went into the shop last week.

[blue06lt]

Long live the blue oval!

[schindlerman96]

yeah it starts but it sounds like your battery is almost dead

[bratwurstize]

Wow, it seems like the majority in US drive automatic. In my country like 95% of the people drive manual.

And btw, my car has a RPM gauge ;)

[beavisPDBSK]

my car also has an rpm gauge (and its manual transmission)... but as it's a diesel it hardly ever gets past the 3.000 rpm mark - redline would start at 5.100 rpm :)

[04smallmj]

@bratwurstize Auto sucks, except for hill starts!

[georgef551]

Of course it'll start. It's a Ford.

In the shop often? Well, it's a Ford.

I have an automatic transmission, and it does have the RPM gauge. They probably do that to save money, installing similar panels, and various ones add labor costs (to select what goes where, versus an all-in-one that goes to anything).

[dieselducy]

250k miles with practically no trouble. Just needs some maintence .

[georgef551]

My Parents had a '91 Tempo, and it wouldn't die. They had to get rid of it because the cost to make it pass inspection was far greater than the car was worth, but it still ran well in spite of it's more recent issues (most recent being a few years ago when they got rid of it). I had a 2001 Focus, BRAND NEW, and it was the biggest POS I ever owned. Got rid of it as soon as it was paid off. Wsin the shop more than on the road.

[Slipknotyk06]

@dieselducy - I had one that got repoed at 236K

In 40,000 miles, this is the list of repairs

Brake job

Starter

Fuel Pump

radiator leak fixed with prestone stop leak

I also broke a rear leaf, but that was my idiocy (took a 15 MPH dip at 55) and the ball joints were bad the entire time.

[04smallmj]

How many other vehicles do you have?

[firealarmguy2946]

It doesn't have an RPM guage? That's kind of weird.

[VancouversLocalNerd]

My car doesn't have one either, nor do either of my parents cars.

[beavisPDBSK]

there are many cars (especially with automatic transmission) which don't have an RPM gauge. What do you need an RMP gauge for on a vehicle with automatic transmission anyhow?

[firealarmguy2946]

hey, automatic is also capable of blowing an engine. You just have to be really loco to do it in a pick-up. lol