yellowford
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Figured its about time I make a registry for my ranger considering I've had it over 6 months now.
Bought this truck after driving/wheeling my 1st gen Explorer for a little while, it did amazing on the trails but was lacking in the comfort department and had quite a few problems but for the $500 I paid for it wasn't bad.
Picked up the Ranger for $1500 which seemed like an awesome deal at the time with all the stuff that was done to it.
Here is what it looked like when it made the trip back to my house.
yes it had an ugly roll bar and horrible steps, those are both long gone.
Now to the modifications that was done to the truck when I got it.
5.5in super lift
3in body lift
cowl induction hood
4.88:1 gears
35in mud kings
American racing wheels
BBK throttle body
BBK headers
cold air intake
warn lock outs
Of course I had to add in a new stereo and have made some other modifications to it that will get updated at a later date
So I had a pretty good starting point to go from which I thought would be a reliable truck once I fixed a few things well that turned into a ton of things including a transmission
Had it driveable for about a month when the automatic took a dump and gave up its guts driving down the highway, so my old first gen came to the rescue and gave up its manual trans.
Here is what the truck currently looks like
excuse my roomates dodge in the background
I started adding up all the receipts I have from this thing and it was kind of scary within the last 6 months there's about $1500 in parts and that isn't even everything left to fix.
List of repairs:
A/C compressor
Sachs clutch set
Sachs Flywheel
Clutch master cylinder
Slave cylinder
Starter
Battery
Rear shocks
a/c drier
u-joints rear driveshaft
upper ball joints
lower ball joints
outer tie rods
inner tie rods
tie rod adjusting sleeve
speedometer gear
wheel bearing
Header gasket
fuel filter
oxygen sensor
wiper blade
axleshaft u-joints
used transfer case
Not to mention 2 pairs of wranglers from getting into the truck, on the plus side my girlfriend is short so I get to always help her get into the truck.
The explorer that gave up its transmission for the ranger
And the demise of it right before I came back to school
The sole reason the Explorer even had its death
This is pretty much where I'm at currently with the truck at a crossroad trying to decide if I want to keep it and fix a few more things or move onto something else the header gasket has started leaking, my axleshaft u-joints are going bad have the spicer ones to go in, and it won't go into 4 low after the 5spd swap still need to figure out what wires to jump. Unfortuenetly with how much the truck kept breaking down this summer my wheeling adventures were completely zero which really sucks after normally trying to go once a month or so.
Bought this truck after driving/wheeling my 1st gen Explorer for a little while, it did amazing on the trails but was lacking in the comfort department and had quite a few problems but for the $500 I paid for it wasn't bad.
Picked up the Ranger for $1500 which seemed like an awesome deal at the time with all the stuff that was done to it.
Here is what it looked like when it made the trip back to my house.
yes it had an ugly roll bar and horrible steps, those are both long gone.
Now to the modifications that was done to the truck when I got it.
5.5in super lift
3in body lift
cowl induction hood
4.88:1 gears
35in mud kings
American racing wheels
BBK throttle body
BBK headers
cold air intake
warn lock outs
Of course I had to add in a new stereo and have made some other modifications to it that will get updated at a later date
So I had a pretty good starting point to go from which I thought would be a reliable truck once I fixed a few things well that turned into a ton of things including a transmission
Had it driveable for about a month when the automatic took a dump and gave up its guts driving down the highway, so my old first gen came to the rescue and gave up its manual trans.
Here is what the truck currently looks like
excuse my roomates dodge in the background
I started adding up all the receipts I have from this thing and it was kind of scary within the last 6 months there's about $1500 in parts and that isn't even everything left to fix.
List of repairs:
A/C compressor
Sachs clutch set
Sachs Flywheel
Clutch master cylinder
Slave cylinder
Starter
Battery
Rear shocks
a/c drier
u-joints rear driveshaft
upper ball joints
lower ball joints
outer tie rods
inner tie rods
tie rod adjusting sleeve
speedometer gear
wheel bearing
Header gasket
fuel filter
oxygen sensor
wiper blade
axleshaft u-joints
used transfer case
Not to mention 2 pairs of wranglers from getting into the truck, on the plus side my girlfriend is short so I get to always help her get into the truck.
The explorer that gave up its transmission for the ranger
And the demise of it right before I came back to school
The sole reason the Explorer even had its death
This is pretty much where I'm at currently with the truck at a crossroad trying to decide if I want to keep it and fix a few more things or move onto something else the header gasket has started leaking, my axleshaft u-joints are going bad have the spicer ones to go in, and it won't go into 4 low after the 5spd swap still need to figure out what wires to jump. Unfortuenetly with how much the truck kept breaking down this summer my wheeling adventures were completely zero which really sucks after normally trying to go once a month or so.
