Car Stall problems of the 2000 Ford Ranger

At 56,000 miles, this is the third time my truck has developed engine spontaneous racing even while in gear. This is a hazardous condition with potential injury/fatality. Occurred at 22 k mi, 45 k mi, and now at 56 k mi. When it occurs vehicle wants to race ahead and crash unless taken out of gear when the engines races and sometimes won't stop unless I intentionally stall or turn off the engine while in traffic. It is not an incident, it is ongoing. I have used the dealer repair shop exclusively. They replaced the throttle position connector at 22k mi. They referred to technical service bulletin 00-3-5. I, of course, would like this fixed permanently as it gradually recurs more and more often to the point of several times a day.

When coming to a stop or when making a turn in either direction vehicle stalled. Vehicle only stalled when the fuel tank was half full.

After driving 30 miles vehicle would intermittently commence to knock and stall. Vehicle been in dealer shop on five occasions, and they are unable to locate problem. Feel free to provide any further information on this matter.

Consumer was traveling about 15mph one street and she was making a turn, and she was smelling gas odor for a week. Gasoline started pouring out onto the ground. Vehicle was towed to the dealership. Currently, vehicle has stalling problems.

Counting the current Ranger, is has been my fourth. I've owned 94', 96', 98' and 00' Rangers, I've never experienced as many problems with them as I have with the 00' model year. The cruise control still operates like in the 96' and 98' model but the cruise control keys no longer light up, so at night I have no clue what each of the four buttons is supposed to do. I took the vehicle into the dealership and was advised that all the comonents were there light bulbs wires etc. . . . Except that a positive feed to the lights on the buttons was not suplied and this was a "new" feature on the 00' model year. I think is an outrage that such a "cool" option which actually has a purpose has been deleted. My other problem with this vehicle is the transfer case, it failed at 500 miles of operation the truck was less then a month old!!!, I was advised by the dealer had I used the 4x4 thing could have been ugly!!!. . I hope is just an isolated incident!!!. Also I'm having problems with the engine, sometimes when putting the truck in drive or reverse from a complete stop it stalls. . . . It just dies!!!!!. . . Usually I have to crank it a few seconds before it starts, also a few times the idle speed has increased from under 1000rpm's to over 2000rpm's while the truck is in idle and warmed up, what is causing this I do not know.