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Ford RangerMore than two decades ago, the Ford Ranger debuted as an answer to various compact pickup trucks being made available by Japanese automakers. The Ranger was cleanly styled and offered with a choice of a 6-foot or 7-foot bed. Ford boasted that the Ranger had more interior room than the best-selling imports and that 4-by-8-foot construction material could be carried in the bed.
I have a 98 Ranger 4wd 4.0 with this problem when I drive down the road and hit a bump and my front right starts rattling sounds like metal on metal, maybe a bad barring, but when I put it in 4wd it doesn't do it. Anybody have this problem and fixed it. Help Please
sounds like your wheel hub/bearing assembly is beginning to fail, pretty soon it will also make that noise in 4x4 as well and it will get louder. cost me about $300 to fix
mine did the same thing, but i was stupid and rode around in 4wd high all the time for about 1/2 a year..............ended up being a new set of hubs, and they are expensive from Ford
Rangers just happen to to have crappy auto locking hubs. Mine crapped out but I did the ghetto free manual conversion. Although this doesn't mean I'm getting around the fact that if you ghetto rig your hubs they are very prone to getting wet and rusting from the inside out.
-Jacob
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