My daily driver 89 Ford Ranger (pos) 2.3 5-spd. Well On my way home tonight the damn thing started losing power on accel and seemed to miss I was at about 75 MPH and was giving it gas and it was stumbling and slowing down put in fourth and still did the same I found a place to pull over and pop open the hood and the manifold was red hot about to the converter what gives? Is the converter clogged up? What usually caused this? Any help on this would be great, Thanks Jason

 

Id be glad to help "GET RID OF THE DAMN FORD" and get an S-10 Come on dont u know what ford stands for and u just proved my point for example read the following:
F ound F ix
O n O r
R oad R epair
D ead D aily

By the way the catalytic converter or exhaust system is clogged.


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92' camaro
New 305 block TPI conversion, Forged parts all around,Edelbrock intake,ported plennum,ported corvette alluminum heads accel cam,52mm throttle bodie, SLP runners,ford SVO 19lb injectors,fuel regulator,cloys timing chain, comp alluminum roller rocker arms and pushrods msd 8.5 mm wires hypertech coil and plug, Edelbrock TES headers, free flowing catalytic converter and a 3 ich force II flowmaster exhaust system.
Soon to come!!!
Procharger system 12lbs o boost.
Favorite quote: "where ever u go, there u are"

 

I Know Ford's Suck. I got it about 3 weeks ago so I could start fixing my 87 Trans Am I need something to get around in and I looked for almost a month for S-10's under $1000.00 and were none but a hell of a lot of Fords. So I broke down and got one. Anyway The converter is what I was thinging of but was not sure. PS: On the back of my Ford Ranger is Calvin pissing on the Ford logo.

 

Thats what it sounds like, converter plugged.

Try unbolting the ex. at the manifold and drive it down the highway, see if its better.

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ASE Mechanic/Machinist/Smog Tech

1999 NBM Trans Am
1986 Chevy 3/4 ton pick up
1981 corvette
1995 Kawi ZX6R

R.I.P. #3
My favorite quote about D.E. "He can see air"

 

Relax i was just kidding like i said it must be your catalytic converter go get a free flowing 3 inch catco converter from summit i believe there around $58.00 each with air injection tube. Oh my god i just gave a tip to a ford.

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92' camaro
New 305 block TPI conversion, Forged parts all around,Edelbrock intake,ported plennum,ported corvette alluminum heads accel cam,52mm throttle bodie, SLP runners,ford SVO 19lb injectors,fuel regulator,cloys timing chain, comp alluminum roller rocker arms and pushrods msd 8.5 mm wires hypertech coil and plug, Edelbrock TES headers, free flowing catalytic converter and a 3 ich force II flowmaster exhaust system.
Soon to come!!!
Procharger system 12lbs o boost.
Favorite quote: "where ever u go, there u are"