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Ford Ranger clicking under dash.

Roger Plyler

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2010 Ford Ranger
My 2010 Ford Ranger started making a clicking noise under the steering column. What could be the cause? It clicks even with the truck turned off. Very low in volumne but it is not the ac actuator in the glove box.
 



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Is it random, or steady?
 












Disconnect the battery and hook the terminals together for ten minutes
A good hard reset
 






After removing cables for 10 minutes and rehooking them, the sound came back.
 






is it the flasher relay? Yellow relay right under your steering column.......... that is my guess
 






Probably a relay. Are you comfortable upside down? Get under there with a flashlight and a screwdriver, and when clicking hold your screwdriver on each relay in turn. You should hear or feel a difference when on the right one, or of course if it does it continuously you can just pull one relay at a time, though some relays may receive power through another so if the sound stops it does not necessarily indicate that relay alone.

You can also try swapping relays around when the same type.

Does it eventually stop after some idle time out period from a battery saver circuit? As above that would not necessarily indicate the battery server relay but could be, or would possibly indicate something operating through it that loses power once the battery saver circuit times out. Remember that many actions, opening a door or hood (if there's a hood switch), disconnecting and reconnecting the battery, etc may reset the time out period for the battery saver so start a new waiting period till it's unpowered.
 






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