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How many miles on this truck? Its kinda sounding like the radiator is plugged
You should drain the whole system, flush it a bit, and run 100% water for a few days like Madmaxx mentioned and see what happens. A good flushing might help you a great deal here. Running water for a few days will eliminate a bad mixture as the issue.
Your water temp gauge is pointing rather high for a ranger just running around, usually the needle has a hard time going past the half way mark. But the factory gauge does not mean much, even though yours is higher then I would like to see.
SO how many miles?
Does this ranger have the single core radiator?
I will assume changing the water pump, fan clutch and thermostat/housing have all been because of this issue? (points to radiator)
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What been saying that needle has never moved a bit off the middle of the gauge in 4 years, this summer it wants to. Water pump was done cause when I bought the truck I added one of those warranties so the shop was doing the timing chains and we got the water pump added in as a preventative matenence thing. I had done the thermostat/flush when I first got the truck 4 years ago and because of this issue yes I put a new one in that came with the aluminum housing then bought another one and to see if I had a bad one. Fan clutch was done to see if that was a issue as well.
Yes 1 core. I linked a new radiator I found on ebay that's a 3 core, looks bad ass but I would feel better about that purchase with a higher percentage pointing to that being the issue since its $200.