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This is actually a great suggestion, and definitely worth looking into. That's one big difference between our trucks and a Focus RS or a mustang.

I haven't given up, I've just been really busy lately and the military is moving me in a few weeks. Once I'm done with this PCS and get settled in I'll get involved with dealers at my next location and hopefully be able to get this resolved.

That's good for you. Not saying that this affects every single Ranger. But if it anyone does find this issue, it would be prudent to change your oil far more frequently than is normally recommended. After just 1800 miles my oil was infact nearly 15% fuel, based on volume drained. The actual oil...

I change my oil every 1500 miles so that it doesn't cause any long term damage. The damage would really manifest itself over the long term, not over a few months... The ignorant who don't check their oil or send it in for analysis won't realize anything is wrong probably until warranty is up.

Yeah it's definitely an issue unique to the Ranger's 2.3, and doesn't seem to be shared with the STs or Mustangs. Yet another reason to suspect an accessory as the culprit, most likely the high pressure fuel pump.

Yeah when I change my oil the oil life monitor is always 80% or higher, pretty laughable when you look at the oil analysis results... Lol

That definitely isn't normal catch can soup. Look at Mishimoto's testing of their catch can, they were very weirded out by the fact that the ranger's catch can caught virtually exclusively fuel. Compare that to any other vehicle's catch can, and it is almost exclusively oil. Including the 2.3...

Did you see my oil analysis results? Changing the oil from a 5w30 to a 0w30 in just 1800 miles of driving, while adding 1.5 quarts of gas to the crankcase, is completely unacceptable no matter what the cause. The Focus RS and the Mustang do not have this issue, which leads me to doubt it is...

All the catch can does is capture what is already going through the pcv system, which otherwise would be returned to the combustion chamber to be burned up anyway. Ironically, because my catch can is really just filling up with gasoline, all it is really doing is preventing all that gas from...

I would say that having the oil analysis results is good for dealing with Ford corporate, and especially good to have if it turns into a lemon law issue. However the dealer probably won't accept it for anything. They are going to fight tooth and nail to not have to do anything, because they have...

Oh no totally clear, my reading comprehension just needs work:LOL:

If her CRV has the 1.5 liter turbo, that is a vehicle that is extremely notorious for extreme fuel dilution in the oil. So not surprising that hers would also smell like gas.

And good luck!

Have them measure the amount of oil they drain out of it. Pretty hard to deny there is an issue when 6.5-7 quarts come out and it only takes 5.8 or something to get it back to the correct level (since some oil invariably doesn't drain out when you change it).

I'd be willing to bet that the dealer is going to tell you the same BS they've been telling all of us. As someone previously stated, the dealer does make money on warranty work, but not enough to justify spending hours investigating a complex problem like this. They like it when the truck rolls...

Notice this article by @Mishimoto as well. https://www.mishimoto.com/engineering/2016/07/gotta-keep-em-seperated-ford-focus-rs-baffled-oil-catch-can-rd-part-3-test-results/ The Focus RS and Mustang applications of this same engine did not yield the result of fuel in the catch can like the...

Here is an interesting article. https://www.mishimoto.com/engineering/2019/10/ford-ranger-catch-can-2019-rd-pt3/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=general-interest&utm_content=Ford-Ranger-2019&utm_term=Ford-Ranger-2019-Blog3-IMG1 @Mishimoto discovered tons of fuel in their catch...

Part of it is to double check myself, make sure I have a real issue and am not just freaking out over nothing. It confirms to me that it is a real problem and that I need to continue to press Ford to have it fixed. The other reason it's good to do this is that if it comes down to a lemon law...

Just got the results back from my second oil analysis. After less than 1700 miles (the 2000 miles reflected on the analysis was just an estimate I threw out there when filling out their form) the fuel dilution is once again well above 5%. That was 100% highway miles, from Colorado to Utah and...

Don't worry too much unless your oil is really high or an oil analysis comes back with really high fuel dilution. I saw another guy's oil analysis and after 8000 miles he only had 1.3% dilution, well within tolerable levels for a turbocharged DI engine. So this isn't an issue affecting all...