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I found a strange box installed in my 97 Ranger. Some wires under the dashboard have been tapped, and a small box has been connected. It is approximately 2" x 3", and approx 1/3" thick. There is no writing anywhere on the box, inside or outside. It contains only a circuit board with no...

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I assume your temperature gauge reads hot after the truck has warmed up. If so, then it could be that your blend door actuator is bad. The blend door actuator is controlled by the temperature control on your A/C. It opens and closes a door in your air duct system so as to give you hot or cold...

Is the weather cold? I had a Buick Skylark once. Whenever the weather was cold, you had to hold the gas pedal all the way down when you started it, and keep the pedal all the way to the floor for about 10 minutes - that is, warm it up at full speed. After about 10 minutes, you could let the...

Final update. I remembered that the A/C would move to hot once I started driving, so I manually moved the blend door to hot. I then plugged in the actuator and moved the temp control all the way to hot. I then tried to install the actuator. It went right in the hole! Once I got the actuator...

I got new bolts for my bed, because the ones already in the truck were rusty. I needed a big Torx bit to remove the bed bolts, and I found the right size at Tractor Supply. They sell a set of Torx bits, and the biggest one in the set fit the bed bolts in my Ranger bed. They let me take the set...

I did it for my 97 ranger. The easiest way is to pick up the bed, so you can get to the filler tube. Remove the front four bed bolts, and halfway unscrew the back two bed bolts, but leave them screwed in part way - don't remove them. Then use a lift of some sort to pick up the front of the...

Update: The blend door moves freely; it won't stay in place after I move it to the desired position. I need to come up with a way to hold it in place while the A/C is running and while the car is moving down the road.

If your blend door actuator is bad, there's no need to spend money on a new one; here's a cheap and easy way to once again be able to set cold or hot on your A/C without buying a blend door actuator: My A/C was stuck on hot, and so I needed to replace the blend door actuator on my 97 Ranger. I...