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And my computer's speaker setup will play noise if i ever touch my desk while the aux cord is sitting on it, that's how EMI works, and the human body is surprisingly well-cut to many wavelengths. This just means you have an isolation issue with your electronics setup.

I talked to someone i know at Ford about this, he said mostly the issue Ford has right now is that they cant source enough aluminum sheet metal to support F-150 production and another program at the same time. Apparently the aluminum body F-series trucks are selling rather well. But i agree...

For reverse tilt on the OSMs you need memory actuators in the mirrors -- basically they have a potentiometer to sense their position, while external modules can record what the value is and control the actuator to get it back to that value. Since the Ranger doesnt have a door module, there's no...

What, you mean you dont want sludge in your engine? :LOL:

Question for you about those LEDs you put in the grille. You said you tied them into the marker lights, so when are those LEDs on? Also any lighting for the rear?

I'm gonna trust my dealer just for the first oil change, mostly because i dont feel like wrestling the factory filter off... I do also know one of their service reps, so i can get him to assign me good technicians.

I'll point out that the Ranger's manual mentions not leaving the automatic transmission vehicle idling in drive for long periods of time as it's bad for the engine/transmission. I, for one, was well used to a vehicle turning its engine off when the ECU decided it was not necessary (Even while...

After everything i've read about the quality of walmart's technicians, I dont want any of them coming within 100 feet of my truck, let alone attempting to work on it.

The real joke with the arm rest is the latch! no mention of it in the manual and its so hard to convince people that they have to pull the strap straight up to release it!

I just was out of town for about two weeks taking a vacation in Alaska. Unfortunately did not see any 2019+ Rangers there. On the east-side of michigan though, i saw a Saber Ranger, and on the way back to GR I saw a silver one.

Wow, uhh, how did i miss this thread until now? Well hello all, i'm Tim. I bought my Ranger on July 29th. It's the first vehicle i've ever owned having come from a family where I always paid for a Ford Incremental lease through my parents. The past four-ish years i've been driving Ford Fusion...

only 660 miles on my XLT FX4 and i'm getting about 20.3 I drive to work all below 55, and home from work with mostly 65+ (depending on traffic). Drive a mix of hot off the light and slow.

I am fresh out of college, but I learned the troubleshooting skills i have mainly from FIRST robotics where we would have things go wrong, and there sure as heck was no manual for the robot we just built! Also a lot of debugging skills from learning programming, where it's actually easy to...

you'd be surprised how much this is true even in the engineering community. through college few of my peers showed any ability to attempt troubleshooting. They would try random things without attempting to isolate each problem first.

Good point, those were all actual Supercharged aircraft. In particular they were the Russian ones.

Then shouldnt a bypass intake hose with a good valve on it, along with opening the turbo blow-off valve suffice? Cant say i know much about turbos outside of the thermodynamics applications :crackup:

I wonder if there's a way to switch the turbo between on and off. Probably not with the stock turbo, but WWII aircraft used to have different operation modes for the turbo, only using them at higher altitudes where the air was thinner.

The tank is an M4A1 (76) HVSS Sherman. It was the mainstay of US tanks through WWII and the Korean War. It replaced the stop-gap M3 Lee medium tank, and was replaced by the Patton series of tanks (M46, M47, M48, M60). Researching the M4 Sherman tank has become one of my hobbies because of the...

Sounds pretty normal assuming that the 5 seconds is an exaggeration. With a turbo if you press the gas, let full off, then hit the gas again you'll get nowhere fast since the turbo takes time to spin up. If you try to remedy the issue by releasing the gas and stomping on it again the issue will...

Interesting. many of us have had issues with the tire pressure. i've even raised the issue with one of the wheel engineers I know at Ford who says there's no reason why the tire pressure should be above 40 psi from the factory, and claimed that the dealers are paid to set tire pressure during...