93 Ranger nearly stalls

Jul 07, 2006 Last reply: 19 years ago 7 Replies

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Phil 20 years ago

Daughters is coming over tomorrow with a problem, 93 small 6cyl, manual transmission. She spent the night on the 4th , next morning it starts but the rpm's drop almost to the stalling level, surges back up and repeats for about 2 minutes then it's fine, she told me it had been doing it for about a month ( she's away at school so I don't see the truck too often) Saw a previous post about a problem with the idle air control valve could it be the same thing or any other suggestions as what to look at . With it only lasting for a few minutes it looks like it will be hard to pinpoint.

Thanks for any input, Phil

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JimV 20 years ago

Could be the engine temp sensor. Is the check engine light on?

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Phil 20 years ago

Sorry , I'm not sure , and I didn't think to ask her ., it's made me think though , if it does come on I can drive it to one of the local places that check the codes , good idea , thank you .

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JimV 20 years ago

They probably can't read it. It's EECIV not ODBII.

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Phil 20 years ago

Sorry , I'm not sure , and I didn't think to ask her ., it's made me think though , if it does come on I can drive it to one of the local places that check the codes , good idea , thank you .

She overslept an came over at noon , not the best time to be working on vehicles in Florida. The check engine light doesn't come on . Pulled a few of the sensors I could access without any special tools and cleaned them and reseated all the connectors on the off chance I might get lucky. She started it up a few hours later and I got too see the problem, it started ok , revs real high then slows almost to a stall, it only last 30 secs,she told me 2 mins ( probably feels like 2 minutes ) then it levels of to normal , I 'm feeling she might have to live with it until we get a complete component failure or its a bit more consistent

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David M 20 years ago

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:42:43 -0500, Phil rearranged some electrons to form:

IAC dirty?

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Phil 19 years ago

Update ....became worse, turned out to be the temp sensor , now the clutch need to be replaced.... bad to worse !

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JimV 19 years ago

Sorry to hear that. Not a fun job.

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