The engine in the car goes "clunk" Happy Tuesday! My 1994 Ford Ranger truck is dying. It had some sort of asthma attack on the way home from getting my nails done. It was shaking, lurching, coughing, and shuddering. Now, I have had experiences with dying vehicles before. I used to have a 1983 Ford Tempo, which died a similar death. At the time, though, I was in grad school, and it was all I could do to keep that little bugger on the road. Still, I managed to drive it from Florida to Seattle and back. However, by the time it died, I had done these things to that little cocksucker: �� replaced the gas tank The car previous to that one was a 1977 Ford Mustang coupe (God, I loved that car!) and I put a new short block engine in that one and witnessed the carburetor catch on fire. It also stalled on every intersection but I became adept at popping the thing in neutral, restarting it, and popping it back in drive in 2.5 seconds. I eventually refused to drive it any more when the brakes fell out of it while driving on my very hilly undergrad campus in the rain, with only the emergency brake between myself and certain death. Hubster's answer is to buy a Toyota, and to stay the hell away from Fords. My response is maybe I should trade in before the damn thing drops its engine on the side of the road unless I plan on restoring, which I would now gladly do to that '77 Mustang. And, actually, Hubster would too.
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