straightlinespeed
Sometimes I pretend to be normal
Hi guys, I need help figuring out what happened to the Fiance's 02 Ranger. It has a 4.0 V6. It started and ran fine yesterday. This afternoon she had to go somewhere and she got in and tried to start it. It started hard (turned over and would fire and die multiple times) Then when it started it was misfiring very bad. When I came home I threw my code reader on it and it came up with P0306 Cylinder 6 misfire.
Just this past spring I did plugs and wires on it. I decided to pull that plug and look at it It was black and smelled like gas. I checked the plug wire and that wasnt rubbed thru anywhere. I did have a new plug here for it so I installed that and tried it. Still no change. It sounds like a very bad vacuum leak from the intake area so I sprayed carb cleaner all around and couldnt find anything. So I ran and got a coil pack thinking that was it. Installed that and no change at all.
I had to blow some snow and of course the snowblower was in front of the truck so I started it and backed it out. The brakes where very hard but as I reved the engine they got softer. So Im leaning towards intake gaskets, but not sure because of the carb cleaner theory. Does anyone else have any thoughts because I would hate to have it towed to a dealership.
Just this past spring I did plugs and wires on it. I decided to pull that plug and look at it It was black and smelled like gas. I checked the plug wire and that wasnt rubbed thru anywhere. I did have a new plug here for it so I installed that and tried it. Still no change. It sounds like a very bad vacuum leak from the intake area so I sprayed carb cleaner all around and couldnt find anything. So I ran and got a coil pack thinking that was it. Installed that and no change at all.
I had to blow some snow and of course the snowblower was in front of the truck so I started it and backed it out. The brakes where very hard but as I reved the engine they got softer. So Im leaning towards intake gaskets, but not sure because of the carb cleaner theory. Does anyone else have any thoughts because I would hate to have it towed to a dealership.