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Ford Ranger Repair Question


Topics covered: Engine, Vacuum leak, Blend door.
Mileage: No information provided.

Asked on March 11, 2007

Heater

I have a ford ranger truck 1998 with a four cy engine, the heater control will move to all dials but it will only work the defrost on all dials. I have about 127,00 mileage on the truck. Why? :lol:
Avatar Asked by MrEscape2001

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Replied on March 11, 2007

check for a vacuum leak in the engine compartment.

Tiny Answered by fordtech1
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Replied on March 12, 2007

Fordtech is right, defaulting to defrost mode is classic vacuum issue with Fords,, there's a vacuum leak somewhere, also once I ran across where the linkage fell off the blend door, resulting in same..vacuum leak could be at the function control valves, they are combo i believe of electric and vacuum... I had an older Taurus where if you were climbing a long hill at highway speed, it would lose the vacuum supply to the function control and it would revert to the defrost mode, heat a or a\c,, I even tried putting an extra-large vacuum storage tank in the line still no good, the low engine vacuum climbing the hill would take it all away

Tiny Answered by TaurusWheel
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