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Old 01-22-2012, 10:41 PM
Rangerdanger1994 Rangerdanger1994 is offline
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Default Please help! Check oil light+Check engine light+rough idle/drive

Hello all i have a 1994 ford ranger 4.0 and tonight i was sitting at a friends house with the truck idling and randomly the check oil light came on. Then a few minutes later the truck started idling rough shooting up to 1000 then going down to about 2-300. Then died. Fired it up and drove around the block and it was a really rough drive. While driving the CEL would flicker on and off. If i let off the throttle it would die. Gonna check the oil tomorrow morning and report back. In the meantime anybody got any ideas of what the problem could be?
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Old 01-23-2012, 01:08 AM
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You need to check the codes. Whateveris going on there will be a code stored in memory (what ever was setting the check eng light off), that's your starting point for trouble shooting.
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Old 01-23-2012, 10:58 PM
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So today i cleaned the iac valve and it ran fine for a few minutes and i drove it and it drove fine. Shut it off and went to go fill the gas and it was idling rough and driving rough again. One thing i noticed though is when the CEL is ON it drives/idles fine. When it turns OFF it starts to jump and will die when trying to idle. Does this mean anything specific? Btw getting codes pulled tomorrow.
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