2004 Ranger Commonrail?

[wimpy]

Is the 2004 Ford Ranger 2.5 turbo inter-cooled engine commonrail injected? Thanks.

[katabeachbum]

no

[crazyswede]

Carborated perhaps?

[wimpy]

Carborated perhaps?

A diesel???

[ScubaBuddha]

Erm....I'm no mechanic, but aren't all commonrails injected by definition? Or is the OP just taking the piss and I fell for it?

What is Common Rail?

As it's name suggests there is a common rail that acts as an accumulator to feed fuel to all of the injectors. Filtered fuel is supplied to the rail by means of a high pressure pump.

sources:

http://www.commonraildiesel.com.au/

http://www.madabout-kitcars.com/kitcar/kb.php?aid=482

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_rail

[soundman]

Mechanical and electronic injection

Many configurations of fuel injection have been used over the past century (1900–2000).

Most present day (2008) Diesel engines make use of a camshaft, rotating at half crankshaft speed, lifted mechanical single plunger high pressure fuel pump driven by the engine crankshaft. For each cylinder, its plunger measures the amount of fuel and determines the timing of each injection. These engines use injectors that are basically very precise spring-loaded valves that open and close at a specific fuel pressure. For each cylinder a plunger pump is connected with an injector with a high pressure fuel line. Fuel volume for each single combustion is controlled by a slanted groove in the plunger which rotates only a few degrees releasing the pressure and is controlled by a mechanical governor, consisting of weights rotating at engine speed constrained by springs and a lever. The injectors are held open by the fuel pressure. On high speed engines the plunger pumps are together in one unit.[21] Each fuel line should have the same length to obtain the same pressure delay.

A cheaper configuration on high speed engines with fewer than six cylinders is to use an axial-piston distributor pump ,consisting of one rotating pump plunger delivering fuel to a valve and line for each cylinder (functionally analogous to points and distributor cap on an Otto engine).[13] This contrasts with the more modern method of having a single fuel pump which supplies fuel constantly at high pressure with a common rail (single fuel line common) to each injector. Each injector has a solenoid operated by an electronic control unit, resulting in more accurate control of injector opening times that depend on other control conditions, such as engine speed and loading, and providing better engine performance and fuel economy. This design is also mechanically simpler than the combined pump and valve design, making it generally more reliable, and less noisy, than its mechanical counterpart.

Both mechanical and electronic injection systems can be used in either direct or indirect injection configurations.

Older Diesel engines with mechanical injection pumps could be inadvertently run in reverse, albeit very inefficiently, as witnessed by massive amounts of soot being ejected from the air intake. This was often a consequence of push starting a vehicle using the wrong gear. Large ship Diesels can run either way.

Wiki on diesel fuel injection systems. Here.

[katabeachbum]

Mechanical and electronic injection

Many configurations of fuel injection have been used over the past century (1900–2000).

Most present day (2008) Diesel engines make use of a camshaft, rotating at half crankshaft speed, lifted mechanical single plunger high pressure fuel pump driven by the engine crankshaft. For each cylinder, its plunger measures the amount of fuel and determines the timing of each injection. These engines use injectors that are basically very precise spring-loaded valves that open and close at a specific fuel pressure. For each cylinder a plunger pump is connected with an injector with a high pressure fuel line. Fuel volume for each single combustion is controlled by a slanted groove in the plunger which rotates only a few degrees releasing the pressure and is controlled by a mechanical governor, consisting of weights rotating at engine speed constrained by springs and a lever. The injectors are held open by the fuel pressure. On high speed engines the plunger pumps are together in one unit.[21] Each fuel line should have the same length to obtain the same pressure delay.

A cheaper configuration on high speed engines with fewer than six cylinders is to use an axial-piston distributor pump ,consisting of one rotating pump plunger delivering fuel to a valve and line for each cylinder (functionally analogous to points and distributor cap on an Otto engine).[13] This contrasts with the more modern method of having a single fuel pump which supplies fuel constantly at high pressure with a common rail (single fuel line common) to each injector. Each injector has a solenoid operated by an electronic control unit, resulting in more accurate control of injector opening times that depend on other control conditions, such as engine speed and loading, and providing better engine performance and fuel economy. This design is also mechanically simpler than the combined pump and valve design, making it generally more reliable, and less noisy, than its mechanical counterpart.

Both mechanical and electronic injection systems can be used in either direct or indirect injection configurations.

Older Diesel engines with mechanical injection pumps could be inadvertently run in reverse, albeit very inefficiently, as witnessed by massive amounts of soot being ejected from the air intake. This was often a consequence of push starting a vehicle using the wrong gear. Large ship Diesels can run either way.

Wiki on diesel fuel injection systems. Here.

since 2006 almost all diesels in pickups/suv/cars use comonrail injection to manage emmision requirements, in LOS, in EU in US. more power, cleaner exhaust, less fuel.

[ScubaBuddha]

I see now. I read it wrong. The question wasn't whether the "2004 Ford Ranger turbo inter-cooled commonrail" is "injected", it's "Is the 2004 Ford Ranger turbo inter-cooled engine" commonrail injected. Derr. Sorry. I'm American. All our cars are still petrol.