Ford Ranger Abandoned in the woods for years! (Will it run??)
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Early 90's ranger with a Dixie horn and bullet holes!? A feller can definitely have a beer with a guy who rolls like that!:) Have a great Thanksgiving man!
Not to forget about the "defeat Obama" sticker on the rear window!
:-D
They sing Dixie with one note sharp where they made that thing.
I had car just like your Ranger. Every time I filled it up with gas, I doubled its value.
I had an old car and kept a CASE of oil in the trunk. People would ask, "How many miles to the quart do I get?"
I bought a new 1988 ranger with the 2.8 v6 manual 5speed 4x4..it was a great truck and i got 182k miles on it before everything broke or wore out all at the same time within a month and i dumped it
pffft HA HA Haaa XDs
Leave me alone! 😂
I had 2 of them, both 2wd and 84 models. I still love that body style, good clean lines. What I really miss are the sparkomatic speakers
You can see how much love you have for the old Ranger in the way you carefully removed the bed. Great vid!
Lol
The insurance payout from the guy who totalled my Ranger came as I was watching this. I was hit in the side and rolled at 45 mph. Landed on the wheels still running and still managed to drag itself off the road with the rear axle/driveshaft and leaf springs broken. The driver's side was flattened and that side of the cab is now about an inch shorter. I walked away without so much as a bruise.
They're amazing little trucks.
I realized why I like watching your videos..... You remind me of my son who passed away. Thank you for helping with the bad days.
It just sucks to have a boy like that. Both of my kids are passed away
You did your best in trying to get the O'le girl running.
Well done, Matt!
"Get some WD on that" comes back with PB Blaster...
that stuck throttle butterfly,linkage wouldve laughed at WD40
And the usual nearly-empty can also...
:-D
@@horstszibulski19 I thought those cans were sold nearly empty. They must be; every can I try to use is empty, or damn near it!
Wassup
@@dfross87 it's like candy you leave the rest of the bag for tomorrow to see at best 5 or 6 pieces of candy from a full bag
You are so much fun to watch, and NEVER a failure! I love seeing how you think about solving the problem. When you put together your "down and dirty setup" I called Therese, my wife, in to watch. We both got such a laugh! Thanks for the fun we had with you. Enjoy your Thanksgiving!!!
I put 196k on mine. Took it from border to border, and coast to coast. Hauled scrap in it for 6 years. I loved that truck.
"And, if this doesn't say I'm here to Party, then i don't know what does" Words to live by!!
During our Sydney lock-down and being bored, I have watched your videos. They are very entertaining, and professionally done. I also learn new words: Dinkle berries, dry as popcorn pork. I have to use them on my Aussies mechanics.
Matt at his silliest. Thanks for the laughs. 🤣
A. To get access to the fuel pump, he rips the bed half off the frame with a truck crane!
B. To deal with a clogged fuel filter, he drills a hole through it to create a direct flow through it!
C. And then the Dixie horn at the end. ermahgerd!
In the past, I've always twitched when you nonchalantly tossed things around, or plopped them onto a bench or the concrete. It could be boxes containing parts, parts without boxes, or tools and equipment. You know. . . I think I can relax about that now. 😉
Have a great day and keep on truckin'. 👍
Hold onto that crane, its seems very useful for alot of activities :) Might come in handy at the church project...
Kudos to that starter hanging in there for that long :)
Too much hassle to get it to the church, and being in town it may attract unwanted attention there.
Still a great thing to have on the farm!
That Dixie horn has made sweeter music, once upon a time! LOL :D
I owned a 1984 Ford Ranger pickup with Explorer package. It was black with red pin striping that had the word Explorer in the pinstriping. It was 4 wheel drive with a manual 5 speed and 2.8L engine. I originally bought it for a New England winter beater. That truck could climb trees and I used it to pull an 18 foot speed boat. People would joke about it sounding like a sewing machine but it had no trouble in snow or pulling the boat to the lakes up in the mountains of New Hampshire and Maine with that 5 speed. Loved that pickup. Oh the memories.
The truck didn't start, but hearing the dixie horn made the whole video worth it.🤣
I bought new, 1983 ford Ranger 4x4,, turned it in for a 92 supercab 4.6L and kept it for 24 years when I was forced to sell it,,, I loved that truck, hurt me to part with it, so I definitely know how you feel
I still have 2 square body Rangers here. A 92 3.0 with over 300 thou on the clock an an 89 2.3 with at least 375 thou probably more. They both have their issues ( the 89 got t- boned by a 450 service truck that couldn't stop in one of our few snow storms) and the 92 has had the trans rebuilt, head gaskets later and a fuel pump. Both will start first tap of the key even though the 89 hasn't been started in a year or so. The 92 is one of the most reliable vehicles I have ever owned. My 94 250 is in that mix too, worst breakdown ever was the factory water pump with 280 thou gave up 15 miles from home after a 350 mile trip. It is loved by the gas stations also having a 460 in it. Ford made some long lasting vehicles up to the mid 90's but lost their edge with the 4 door luxury truck craze.
Brother you can't win them all. If you did we would think it was as suspicious as a Georgia election.
Keep up the fine videos, as always looking forward to the next installment in the ongoing saga of Diesel Creek!
Terry from South Carolina
Sometimes, fun projects like this can consume you, your time, and your resources. But, sometimes, a guy has to do what a guy has to do!!
As you rip the bed off I remember you saying you loved this truck
tough love ;]
@Diesel Creek, Not a failure, another learning experience.
My 1st car payed 500. It was a RL411 Datsun sedan.
Drove the crap out of too. Made only two upgrades..buffed out the sun faded paint and put ralley/offroad tires on her. She weighed less than a VW bug. I would have to put about 150lbs of sand bags in the trunk for traction for snow driving.
Loved this video...was grinning the whole time, knowing the Ol girl would come back to life. Even when she didn't.
Matt, you are bloody bonkers, clever, brilliant, practical and bonkers.
jump it on the solenoid so you can stand up front and run it off ether, that'll tell you if its a sensor issue, seemed to run a bit on ether earlier
... miiiint.
I have an 87' model stx. Same paint job and 2.9L to boot! Very fun truck to drive
I actually have one of these trucks. A 1991 Ranger STX super cab with the same 2.9 but with an auto trans and push button 4x4. Ive almost completely restored it complete with the original roll bar, off roaf lights, rear tube bumper and soon to have brush guard. I will have to do a video on it! Its white and suppose to have black decals but I havent gotten those put back on since painting it because the guy who painted it for me screwed up some places. Ill get those put back on after the paint work is fixed 👌
I don't know if the internet blew up the comments or not yet. I think those might have a secondary fuel pump on the frame. Its been a few years since I worked on one. If it does that might have been the holdup. Fun video, even thought you didn't get her going. Cheers 👍😁
this video is by far the best display of jank i've seen on the channel. hilarious but i love the non-stop working of problems you do.
Love the "will it run/scavenger" videos!! Thanks for posting, Matt!❤️️😎👍
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU, THE WIFE, OSCAR AND MEATBALL
Had Three Rangers, got rid of them when they were either worn out or literally knocked out from under me. Had to be cut out of one cause a hot rod idiot hit his nitrous off the line on a city street and lost it, came over the centerline and wedged his pretty little camaro under my Ranger. Blew me om the passenger side, he was going so fast and spinning he ended up in a used car lot behind me. Damn near was an airborne Ranger. I like your content and yer work / play attitude keep it up fellow ridge runner.(born in Mars, Pa.)
Kick the floor out and get about like Fred Flintstone👍🍺
😂😂
Yab BA Daba DooooooooOOOOOOOO 😁😁😁😁😁
2 fuel pumps. Low pressure in the tank. High pressure on frame rail past the fuel filter. With ignition on, push the shrader valve on the fuel rail and it should spray at 50 psi or so. Inertia switch in the passenger footwell is wired inline to cut power to the pumps and are always corroded, just cut and join the wires.
these later rangers only had one pump.
This reminds me of my '87 Ranger. It was a great little truck.
At the 21:40 mark I realized what a fine unit this is. I mean Ford built them with a dump bed. Lol. I bet a solid unit like that could still haul a ton of gravel or so and tail gate onto your driveway. I also like how Ford thought of everything and they even drilled holes in the side of the the dump bed to allow rainwater to drain out.😂
My first truck was a 92 ranger! Bought it new in 1991 after highschool for school. I guess I am much older than you. I recently bought a sweet 2003 with 40k miles on it that I have detailed well and its a nice summer ride. They didn't change much from 83-2011.
Those were good little trucks. I had a 94 it never let me down but like you said gotta love Pennsylvania. Mechanically my truck was tip top but all the salt and calcium they use on our roads destroyed the frame. Mine was the 2.3 litre 4cyl it had 2 spark plugs per cylinder 2 coil packs factory headers hemi heads direct fuel injection. It got amazing fuel mileage. I have a 7 x12 drop gate trailer and I hauled more on the trailer behind that ranger than any full sized pickup I have ever owned. I don't know why Ford stopped building them. I think they were so popular they were cutting into F 150 sales. Have a great day Matt. Go Steelers.
oh my,,, I started out with an '83 Ranger when they first rolled out, kept it and traded in for a '92 Ranger XLT 4X4- and kept that for 24 years when I was forced to sell it....the transmission pump went out in '09 & I didnt have the $ to fix it so it sat until 2016 when I sold it due to illness, but I turned it on every once in a while it was great to hear my baby run and so great to hear yours as well,, someday I hope to buy another one..
This is literally what I do in my spare time I go start my great uncles old 90s ford trucks that haven’t ran in years. I am currently fixing one up right now it’s a 1990 Ford F150 with the good old 2.9 inline 6
This is one of those times where you need somebody to spray the starting fluid while you crank!
25:30 Is that a tornado siren? Time to use that Dixie-horn as the door-bell for the shop! ;D
Ahhh, Danger Ranger stories. In high school a friend on mine had a Bronco II and we rolled it. Did the same thing, flipped it back over and it ran fine.
Hey Matt ! Your French viewer here. I ain't into motors, so I've learnt a few good tips today:
- good ole tappy tap tap,
- ether go-go-juice,
- drill doctor,
- weighing all you can on an uncooperative bumper,
all of the above will save your ass most of the time ! :D
PS : Noticed that wind burst @27:40 when she took her last breath ? RIP, Red Girl...
PS2: Loved that last breath of the horn ! ;-)
My first truck/vehicle is a blue 2010 Ford Ranger supercab FX4 off-road 5 speed. Absolutely love it, 4.0 has got some guts imo.
14:14 Wow! I never seen a dump-bed Ranger! :D
Happy Thanksgiving from the rust free belt.
Still driving all my rust free 90s vehicles. I left the northeastern Ohio 39 years ago
Jealous!!
West Texas here I've a 55 International Harvester S210 and a 48 Willys Pickup. Solid bodies
@@DieselCreek It's amazing the difference in opinions between different places. I've watched videos where people from the rust belt talk about, "Great truck, no rust," etc while showing the underside of a vehicle they've just bought.
As soon as I glanced under the door sill and saw the chassis/body on most of them, I'd walk away! Totally different here in dry, salt free Australia.
yup. cactus smasher bar. based on the rounded top flange, 73-77 year bumper it fits.
Ran when parked 😉 and not only that it was purchased new by the original owner !
14:00 Andrew Cammarata School of Auto Repair; Graduate Student Thesis demonstration! This one popped up on the UA-cam algorithm right after I watched Matt's first VERY FIRST VIDEO (about this truck), RANGER DANGER! I love this channel so much I'm starting at the beginning!
I have an 01 Ranger just about that far gone, except the fuel pump works and is only 2 years old. It doesn't have current plates, and no insurance, but I used it last weekend to get me out to my deer hunting spot so I could add some venison to my freezer.
I kept waiting to see the whole truck explode into flames, with all Matt did to it. Thanks Matt you just gave me a good laugh today, that I really needed. Oh and that musical horn does do La Cucaratcha
You seriously pucked up the body mount replacement😝
I struggled for quite some time with a similar engine that had been in storage for several years after I installed it in my Ranger I had fuel pressure and it would run on ether. I checked for injector pulse. Everything looked good. Turned out to be the injectors themselves were sticking not allowing any fuel to enter the engine. Swapped out the injectors with the ones from the replaced engine and it fired right up.
I think that’s the problem. I may swap them out and try it
I had an old 87 Ranger 4x4 with that same engine I drove my senior year of high school, and then 2 hours to college every weekend. Engine was great. Had the pipe for the EGR system rust out at the left manifold. Drove a brass pipe and cap into the hole and folded over the pipe at the valve. Ran great after that. Would flip the air box over to keep water out of the engine on mud runs too.
The horn made it all worth while! Thanks for the chuckles.
It still brought back memories good and bad. That's a good thing.
Sometimes we just have to move on. You still have the memories. Be thankful for that. Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks! What a great day. Woke up to Diesel Creek!
Love that new dump bed option
Just needs a crane to operate
i had a 2wd ranger and i loved that thing it was a solid little truck
Same here silver on red
What a way to wake up,...laughing my ass off through the whole video 😂🤣😂🤣LOVE IT!!
if you take another shot at it, check the cap and rotor. sounded like it was firing on one cylinder. fun video!
Well we all admit defeat every once in awhile too Matt. Its a learning experience all the time man.
Using those jumpers and all that sparking on top of the fuel tank made me excited 😛
Have had danger rangers since I was 14 love them don't feel right not having one got some bronco II's too would love to get that transfer case with that manual shifter out of there
great fun, really enjoyed the video, thanks Matt
Perfect place to be fucking around with something that can create a spark. Gas fumes and sparks.Should write a song with those lyrics..lol
"the frame rail will catch me" pokes it into dust with a screw driver
Turkey, chicken, ham, potatoes, corn, green beans, peas, pies in in my eyes.....
Gravy everywhere. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours
Hey, now you just made a tilt bed out of it that just made it worth another grand.😁😁👍👍👍
10/10 for a great effort Matt, Superb video once again.....
Thanks!!
Hi Matt I must say you we’re not the only one to have air horns, mine were not Dixie but something else, the first two notes sounded like an old fashion U.K. police horn and then the other notes kicked in but I can remember going down the motorway and there was a middle lane hog and I just kicked the first two notes and boy did they move out the way, it was fun back then and I’m still that boy thirty years on so keep up the good work, markUK
I had a little food ranger also sold it to my son and he traded it in for a new truck it was a great old truck!
That camera angle at the end when you were trying and trying to start it, where the bed was rearing up over the cab like a monster from a bad dream -it cracked me up! Regards from Indiana...have a Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍽🍁
I have a pair of 2.9 bronco II's that sat for years. One has 55K original miles on it and was parked for a cracked head. They both had stuck fuel injectors. Gotta pull them out and power cycle them while spraying them with cleaner. While I love my 80's RBV's I hate working on them.
I’ve been keeping an eye out for a clean bronco 2 I love them as well
Reminded me of my first car a Volvo 240 station wagon that was in bad shape already when I got it. Had to stop every few miles and let the breaks cool down. Which was fine since you had to get out and get some fresh air anyway because of the exhaust leak.
I'm also a PA guy and had a 92 ranger and drove it to 429000 miles before the frame rotted through. But the dang thing ran like a top. Only 1 time it left me stranded because the starter died and that was somewhere around 77000 miles.
I loved mine!
Might be called a failure, but for sure it was a fun failure. The horn worked and that made it all worth while.
Thanks for sharing.
Those old rangers are basically immortal. I have the Mazda badged one. Unlike the new ones they're hard to kill and easy to work on. Also they aren't the size of an F150.
You're not a failure. You got the Dixie horn to work. Love the bailing wire on the front grill, easy on easy off
Rangers are some tough little trucks. I grew up in Hawaii and the salt air rusts vehicles fast. A friend had a Ranger about that same year and the right side A-pillar was about 90% rotted away to the point where he wouldn’t open the passenger door because apparently it might fall off. Anyone that rode in that truck had to get in the driver’s side and scoot past the steering wheel and stick shift. 😂 That truck was pretty rotted all over but it somehow held up for years bombing around the rough sugar cane and pineapple roads. I think it had the 2.9L also and that thing pulled out stuck half tons no problem. Maybe it was just geared better but it was way peppier than my Chevy with the non-Vortec 4.3L.
Another friend had an ‘84ish Ranger that would consume oil almost as fast as gas. We would drive 25-30 minutes to go surf and would have to bring a fresh quart to make sure it got there and back. She sold that truck pretty quick but I saw it around town for years... hopefully at some point it got a set of gaskets 😂
You didn't fail. You got the horn working that's the best part
Sad, but at least you now have a dixie horn ring tone!
My first "new" car was a 1989 Bronco II with the 2.9 - I had over 200K on it before the clutch started slipping - except for oil leaks and a noisy lifter or two that 2.9 never gave me any trouble.
Anything for $500 is a good deal. But those little Ford Rangers would take a pounding. I know a couple of folks who had one. My first vehicle in the summer of 1967 when I was 16 growing up in western PA was a 1957 Ford F100. Except for throwing a little blue smoke it was in pretty decent shape......when I bought it. I bought it for $245. Bought it to earn money over the summer to get a car. Beat the living crap out of it for three months. Hauled such heavy loads I bottomed out the springs more often that I didn't. But, I never put a penny into it other than gas and one oil change. Sold it at the end of summer for $250. Thought I was a genius. 😂 Loved Ford trucks ever since....but never had another truck.
It is a good feeling when your older self can no longer fix your younger self projects
Atleast u got the sweet horn to work
Just because the truck didn't work doesn't make you a failure. You succeeded in finding that it didn't work.
😂👍🏼
There is a fuel pump cut off on the passenger side floorboard. Also there there is two fuel pumps. One in the tank and one on the frame.
Sounds like the injectors are plugged up or seized up and not pulsing. At least she did run on either, should be able to provide some parts for the other ranger.
I got flashbacks to a Top Gear episode with a red Toyota Hilux. They had a little more luck.
Kind regards Christiaan
I remember that episode
Thems the fastest ratchet spinning I ever did see round the three rivers
Love the bonus footage! That horn was the best part of the video.
ive had mine (soon be 10 yrs) runs just as quiet, smooth, (big cologne v-6 ) a/c,heat, auto,cruise,tilt. L.E package.
original paint "still shines" ..lol
YEP.! I LOVE MY LIL OL' TRUCK.
Very jealous!
@@DieselCreek - lol, smiles i live in the deep south, our vehicals tend to last longer.
Matt, remember Edison failed a bazillion times, before the light bulb would function..... So it's another step in the resurrection of a deadbeat motor :). You playin' the dixie on your horn, made you in my book my ultimate hero... Keep rocking, I thoroughly enjoy that 30 minutes working on a lil' truck with you!!
Bummer man! I was rooting for you! Thought you had it! Oh the memories of our first truck!
We bought property down the road a few years ago and found a old bronco in the woods we drug it out the tank was full of varnish so we did like you did we bought a new pump and sunk it in a 5 gallon bucket my buddy showed up with "gas" filled it up we cranked it over for 30 minutes i started smelling diesel...well lets just say he has yet to live that down
Poor old red!! Farewell faithful steed!
My 1st Pick Up was a 93 Ranger..bought it used and put 200K on it before I gave it away...from what I hear, it has a rebuilt 3.0V6and is still on the road!
Failure? I think not... A mans got to know his limitations, and you do. She’s still good for parts and who knows, she may run yet again someday. I love the horn, THAT just couldn’t get annoying! 😉✌🏼
I have an “ahhh-oooo-gah” horn in my car, others love it 🙄 lol
Ive got a strange feeling that bed wont be on that truck much longer...
not sure what gave you that impression hahaha
@Blake ....oh you're just a crazy conspiracy theorist ..............;D
I thought you pulled of the bed already
@@dancurrier6421 Guessing he did both videos at the same time ;-)
@@KB-ou5vj Haha I got that one XD