Own a 99 Ranger with a 3.0.The truck runs for about 4 minutes and dies.Won't restart.The truck then shoots a P0176 code ever hear of this? Tried it 30 minutes later and it did the same thing ran for 4 minutes and died.Does anybody have any ideas or run across this before? Please help.

 

do you have to wait that long between tries??
- Im asking, can you start her, let it die and start her immediatly after?

 

This from another thread :
01-5-2
DRIVEABILITY - ROUGH IDLE - DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODES (DTCS) P0500, P0501, P0503, P1721, P0176, OR P1000 STORED IN MEMORY - WATER INTRUSION AT CONNECTOR C309 OR C340 UNDER DRIVER'S SEAT - VEHICLES PRODUCED BEFORE 1/2/2001


By this I would crawl under the truck in the area of the driver's seat and look up , inboard of the frame rail. There will be a square plug with a ~10mm bolt in the center.Remove the bolt and unplug the connector.Clean the terminals and coat with dielectric grease.

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go to this site & see if this helps. Save to favs. for future.OTRtech is probably correct. Go to this site & read about this code & you will see. Good luck.