When I bought my Ranger back in 2014 (June). I was out shopping, seems like three weeks, to find my baby. I found her in Davie, Fl. It cost a little more than I wanted to spend.($3600.00+) But she is a small little work truck. Just what I need. On my way back from the dealer, I noticed she was running on the hot side. So I open up the radiator cap and saw all kinds of junk floating around on top. Thinking she only needed to be flushed out.Taking her to Transmission place. I asked if the guy could check it over. Wanted to make sure the transmission is okay too. He looked it over and said. It looks good to him. Plus I had him flush the radiator out too. He came up to me and said, he has done it three times and junk is still coming out. Thinking it will be okay now?
Well since I have owned her, she has been heating up on and off for over 2 and half years now. I flushed her out ad least twenty (20) times myself.
Now back about a year or so. I did a tune up. You know, sparks plugs and wire. It ran great for about a couple of months. Then it started acting up again. It had a miss. I took it to another friend down in Margate, Fl. He put it on a machine and found out #1 spark plug was not firing correctly. So I putted the plug and notice it was cracked. Oh well I must have cracked it putting it in?
Okay I more up here in July of last year. Did another tune up. #1 is cracked again. Replaced the plug and wires. Okay after about a month I noticed it was miss firing again. I pulled the #1 plug and you can see it is cracked again. Plus looks a little fried too.
I went over to see a mechanic down the road here, Mark. I showed him the plug. He asked me a couple other questions and I thought maybe a blown head gasket? He told me you are correct. Okay Lord this is our truck. Mark said it would cost around $1500.00 plus. To do a head gasket and valve job. Which is very smart move while the heads are off.
Lord what do I do now??????
I drive over to the Advance Auto and talk with a guy there. He was saying he sell this and never heard a complaint. So I went on line and did a lot of searching and watching videos. You know Youtube.
A lot of folks talked about how good this stuff is below.
Okay I went on Amazon and found it for $24.99. Thinking all the auto stores sell it for $34. UP. Why not give it a shot?
I took the upper radiator hose off and drained the anti freeze down a little ways. Poured the Fiber Lock down into the block. Thinking this way it was go into the engine right off the bat.
I ran it as the video told me to. 15 minutes and see how the level in the radiator is? It was low. Filled it up. Drove about 15 miles and the temp got really hot now. I stopped the truck and shut it off and let it cool down. Refilled the radiator up. Drove home. Running really hot again. I flushed everything out and refilled it with the remainer of the Fiber Lock. They told me to only use half of the bottle at first. Then if it didn't help any. Put the rest in and see what happens.
Nothing good is happening. I drove it another 15 mile and it over heated again. Not good at all. I flushed the system out three times. Roy and I drove over to Mark's place. I told him what I tried to do. He asked it I would like to buy something he has on his lot? He has a large Chevy truck for $3000.00. Not really something I would like. He told me that he has a Ford Ranger coming in next week for sale. He told me he would call me when it came in. Plus he was saying maybe look for a new engine? I went on line.
Both Advance and Auto Zone are around the same price.
Rebuilt kit is the way to go. But I need to have someone to do the job. I can not do it in here in the park. Hey my Lord is BIG and He has something planned out for me? Just have to wait on Him and see. Plus I have out a couple phone calls, to see if anyone I know could do the job cheaper?
Praise HIM,
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