Hey everybody I just came into possesion of a 1987 Ford Ranger XLT, but it's got a few issues I was hoping someone could help me out with.
When I got this truck, all I was told was it had been sitting a couple of years, and it ran when it was parked, but that one cylinder was fouling up, and the thottle cable had stuck open and was most likely broken. The battery had been taken out and stored inside, so I charged it up and put it in, hoping for something. What I got was nothing. Well, almost nothing. With the fully charged battery, I have the horn, dome light, and open door pinger. If I turn the key to start, the dome light slowly faded, and the horn stops working. When I let the key retun to run, the dome light returns. I get nothing at all from the starter, no clicks, groans, nothing.
I'm just an amatuer mechanic, but it sounds to me like either something really easy, or really really bad. The other thing is, the truck has a very high degree of rust covering everytning. The stuck throttle cable I suspect had to do with the fact that the throttle was rust covered. Could it be a ground or something like that? Thanks Tonyrama