88 ford ranger crank but no start

Asked by Nick Aug 04, 2020 at 10:41 PM about the 1988 Ford Ranger

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I have a 88 ford ranger with the 2.9l has 112k miles, the other day it broke down on me while shopping, discovered a burnt plug wire so went back in the morning and changed it, truck started right up and made it home. decided it was time to do a tune up, after changing the plugs, wires, cap, rotor, and oil change, the truck now doesn't want to start, checked for spark some the coil to cap, its good, checked from cap to plugs, also good, and checked it was getting fuel which is also good. at this point i have gone back and doubled check everything i went threw and am clueless at where to start next.

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enginecreator answered 3 years ago

May just be a plug wire at wrong position. A wire may have came unplugged to something else. Spark plug gap may have closed when installing.

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Nick answered 3 years ago

i went with the 4 prong plugs that come pre-gapped and have double checked my firing order twice 1-4-2-5-3-6 passenger side being 1-3 and driver side being 4-6

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Nick answered 3 years ago

Just got done checking injectors with noid lights they worked fine. Check compression it was good. Checked fuel pressure its good. Buddy told me to change my tfi/icm so I did still same problem. Could my ignition coil not be going enough spark even that I see a spark when checking at cap and plugs?

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