HighFivenWhiteGuy
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- Location
- Renton, WA
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- 2019 Ranger Lariat FX4
- Occupation
- Engineer
What you have described matches my experience completely. I even tried putting the Ranger in neutral before coming to a stop and sure enough no clunk. Curious what you find out!I just wanted to post a follow-up to my original post on this subject. I have done a lot more testing to try to isolate the problem. Like others, I have found that the clunk is not related to shifting gears because I too have put it in manual, kept it in first gear and still usually get a clunk just as I come to complete stop. The stutter that many have mentioned is different than the clunk. I have had the stutter, but not all the time and I have not been able to nail down when it happens. The clunk happens almost every single time. However, I also have shifted the truck to neutral from normal speed and come to a complete stop and there is absolutely no clunk or stutter ever, none at all. So it definitely is not brake or suspension related in my view. Both the clunk and clutter have to be transmission/drive train related. Also, when I have shifted into neutral to come to a complete stop and then shift back into drive I usually get a hard shift into gear. Much harder than the normal shift from park to drive or reverse to drive. Sometimes, it is almost like a double shift...a soft one followed by a hard shift and I think I have felt a clunk in that process a time or two, but not sure. At times, the transmission seems confused or just jerky.
Another thing I will note is that most of the posts on this thread seem to be Rangers with an FX4 package. While I do not have the FX4 package, I do have the electronic locking rear differential that is part of the FX4 package. I wonder if that says something?
I still have not taken it in for service...I just don't want to hear "that is normal" because it is not. I need hard enough evidence that what is happening is not normal so they will take a hard look and figure this thing out because it is annoying.
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