Thread: Ford ranger 2 litre bi turbo

Just blew the transmission and who knows what else on my '21 Ranger 2L biT f4max towing my 3ton adventure caravan yesterday.
It was towing mint, no issues. I was literally just thinking i would post on this thread how good it was towing. Nek minute, big clunk just behind the engine felt through my feet, instant dead engine, stranded blocking the uphill lane at the Makatote viaduct.
94k km odo and id only owned to for a couple of months, barely used it in that time too.

Sure it didn't have an engine failure and not the box? Instant dead engine would be unusual for a transmission failure I would have thought, my experience of taking out boxes is the engine stays running but with noises and a smorgasbord of lights on the dash...

@No.3 i honestly wouldnt know, I'm no mechanic.
The engine wasn't hot, no smoke, not stutter, no smells. Plenty of warning lights and messages on the hud.
Only visible issue was fluid out of here.


The ford mechanics will let me know at some point after they receive it today.

Yeah, that will answer your questions. Not ideal though, I would be expecting both ends to not be happy from the sounds of it (instant stop like that).

A customers brother was telling me the same thing happend to him. Ford just put a new engine in it. He says it was at 84k not thrashing it either just going down to the shops

Yeah, an abrupt stop like that is not too good for anything. Is your one a PX series ranger or the "next gen" version with the 2L 'wet belt' engine?

The lube oil pump on the bigger 3.2L engine is a good example of this, the pump is a vane design with sliding internal vanes that do the actual pumping of the engine oil through the engine. If the vanes wear enough they can shatter, leading to a sudden stop of the lube pump. Best case scenario is it shatters the chain driving the lube pump, you get the low oil pressure light and you have about 30 seconds to shut the engine off. Worse case scenario, the lube pump chain shattering takes out the timing chain and the timing bits with shrapnel which gives you no warning and completely destroys the engine...

Got to marvel at our advancements in vehicle desighn ay

Yeah, but it save 0.75Kw over the gear type oil pump! How else do you reckon Ford gets the emissions down haha. Once you buy it it's your problem...

Fk just reading these ortopys,il stick to my old patrol.Just clocked 615000,great transmission coupled to a bullet proof motor.Sounds like these Ford trucks are made out of coke cans.
Feel sorry for you guys receiving those big repair bills.

Yeah, other issues with the Patrols though to be fair. Nothing is perfect, there are always things that go wrong. The one of those I had was fitted with a black top motor, awesome truck apart from engine mounts. After breaking three sets in short order I built a heavy duty set and fitted that. Much noiser at idle but didn't break! Ironically I'm having the same issue with the manual ranger - have just modified a damaged set of mounts with urethane which were much more solid and nice and quiet above 1500rpm, sounded like a heard of elephants at idle though so not a solution. Next attempt is modifying the stupid Ford design to limit the engine's travel potential so the hoses under the bonnet aren't getting ripped out of their clip and the loom isn't having to thrash around and fitting a lot more softer rubber inside to make them more compliant than the urethane version.

I think I've narrowed the culprit for these broken mounts down to a section of road locally - it has a pattern of smooth ups and downs on it that finishes with a sharp drop just after it starts the engine going upwards, and has a side by side component in it as well. If you hit it at 60Km/H (the new speed limit) it really bounces everything about, and the wife managed to destroy a set of mounts in her car as well so it's not just me! And shes not hard on gear. Basically you either need to be doing 40, or 80 over the bumpy bit I think so you avoid the combination of harmonics that creates the issues.

Everything has its faults.. a friend who works in lease vehicles said they just had another new ranger in with a blown engine. 2 years old

Back when we was kids, a blown engine was a rare and exotic thing...

Now not so much.

We used to do engine blows at work drain the oil and water and let her rip with a block on the accelerator. Quickest one was a xj6 jag longest was a 525 bmw.

Not from experience but from looking at things online in various forums and sites, if it had an eco boost you will be in trouble sooner than later.