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Ford ranger chassis problems
Apart from the good advice that AC5ZO has given I would look at the lower ball joints (king pin) on the front end. Today most of these do not have grease fittings and will groan if dry or thump. I have a Volvo today with on bad one. As the second owner I traced it through warranty sheets and had existed from new. Even the high price mechanics could not find it.
It is a task to get them out and in without the special tools. Not always done without profanity. So I have had the new one for a couple of years listening to it slowly get worse. I have replace a number on older cars, but some as low as 50K, like on a Dodge Omni I inherited with the wife.
It is a little difficult to analyse from 2 thousand miles with out hearing. The play in the joint can be so slight that you do not see it with the standard wheel movement with the pry bar.
It will not always repeat so the mechanic will not necessarily hear it.
There are 360 degrees of failure so the joint can groan on stopping, one direction turn or acceleration after the brakes are released.
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I have replaced the odd rod end in my day. The last was a Ford F250 I owned. I was a work truck and although low miles was a rig pig truck in Northern Alberta. The dust of the desert is bad but I think the fine mud of the rocky foothills has to be the worst at least for wear.
When you drive the roads in spring as the frost comes out of the ground there is nothing but mud all over the car. The mud is light and fine and get down into every hole in the car or truck. After I got the truck I clean about 2 inches of mud from the bottom of the inside of the doors.
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I am wondering about the lower front arm links as Kens description is typical of the type of noise they make and the way it happens.
My current Volvo, initially would only make the noise after turning right on an incline comming out of the drive way and then the first left turn as we headed down the road.
The older 74 Volvo I replaced both lower links over time and the first made the metally moan on some stops. As the second one when it only made a sound as I released the brakes. I had to take the first to the resident expert in old Volvos Ed Schramm in Walley B.C. to figure out what this strange sound was.
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Ken if it is the lower ball joints then the noise in my finding is sparatic. Like I said the 940 Volvo requires you to turn right and stop to force the link into the slack position and then pops the next time you turn left. You never heard it other than that.
I would try backing up and turning in either direction and stopping hard. Then trying the same while travelling forward.
You need to cock the rifle before you can drop the pin. It took a lot of analysis on the 940 until I determine what it was and could make it repeat and this is someone that has seen it a few times before.
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