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I build Ford Rangers and Ranger based vehicle's, some of you may be familiar lol
My son is over 15 now and has his permit! He is actually a pretty good driver thank goodness.
Probably helps that I have had him on atv’s since he was 4
Anyways he needed a vehicle so I am building him one. I actually started building this ranger to sell, I typically restore and “flip” 5 rangers a year. This one we decided to keep.
Project “Spare Parts”
This is the first ranger we have ever kept! I drive a bronco ii, I have owned explorers and sport tracs, many members of my family drive rangers, I have built and driven hundreds of them but this is the first one in my immediate family. So she gets lots of cool parts because I have a huge collection
This is a 1998 ford ranger xlt 4.0 auto 4wd, 4 door “ super cab” stepside. It came to me needing a lot of work… it had a bad engine installed. The kid we got it from had blown up the original ohv 4.0 and then picked up another 4.0 from a junk yard and attempted into install it… it also had bad heads so he had the junk yard provide him with yet another engine, then lost interest and sold it to me. So it came with. Bad engine under the hood and a “good one” in the bed.
That is how it sat for a while.
Plan was to clean it up, refresh the good engine and install, do some paint and sell the truck. That didn’t happen
A year goes by and I got my hands on a 2004 Mazda b4000 with only 150k likes that was wrecked. I used most of the parts to
Build up this 98.
That’s when this all started back in March of 24
I did not get any good pics of this truck when we first got it in there was still snow on the ground. The ohv engine was out in about 5 minutes and the entire truck was stripped down to the metal
Here are some pics from back then
Here we go
Mazda b4000 “smashy” the story goes some poor high school kid was messing with his cell phone and blamo! Smacked the front end into something, enough to shatter the front diff and break the knuckle. Truck totalled. It went to a yard down south of us where they grabbed the seats and cat converters then decided to sell the engine. I contacted him about his engine.. and asked about the transmission as well… ended up with the entire truck for $800. Beautiful 04 b4000 4 door 4wd ran perfectly at time of wreck.
These are before, actually this is a different green 98 stepside 4.0 auto 4wd but this one is a two door. I didn’t get any good pics of the truck until after….
It was not long before the truck was stripped down
The engine and trans were pulled,, t case, drivelines, exhaust all trims the interior was removed down to the metal. Rear window pulled and we had a cab and bed ready for building
This is how it sat for a very long time, except in this pic it still had a front bumper, engine, trans etc
Then we scored the Mazda Parts donor
04 B4000 SOHC 4wd auto 150K miles smashed
We stripped the mazda down in record time
My son is over 15 now and has his permit! He is actually a pretty good driver thank goodness.
Probably helps that I have had him on atv’s since he was 4
Anyways he needed a vehicle so I am building him one. I actually started building this ranger to sell, I typically restore and “flip” 5 rangers a year. This one we decided to keep.
Project “Spare Parts”
This is the first ranger we have ever kept! I drive a bronco ii, I have owned explorers and sport tracs, many members of my family drive rangers, I have built and driven hundreds of them but this is the first one in my immediate family. So she gets lots of cool parts because I have a huge collection
This is a 1998 ford ranger xlt 4.0 auto 4wd, 4 door “ super cab” stepside. It came to me needing a lot of work… it had a bad engine installed. The kid we got it from had blown up the original ohv 4.0 and then picked up another 4.0 from a junk yard and attempted into install it… it also had bad heads so he had the junk yard provide him with yet another engine, then lost interest and sold it to me. So it came with. Bad engine under the hood and a “good one” in the bed.
That is how it sat for a while.
Plan was to clean it up, refresh the good engine and install, do some paint and sell the truck. That didn’t happen
A year goes by and I got my hands on a 2004 Mazda b4000 with only 150k likes that was wrecked. I used most of the parts to
Build up this 98.
That’s when this all started back in March of 24
I did not get any good pics of this truck when we first got it in there was still snow on the ground. The ohv engine was out in about 5 minutes and the entire truck was stripped down to the metal
Here are some pics from back then
Here we go
Mazda b4000 “smashy” the story goes some poor high school kid was messing with his cell phone and blamo! Smacked the front end into something, enough to shatter the front diff and break the knuckle. Truck totalled. It went to a yard down south of us where they grabbed the seats and cat converters then decided to sell the engine. I contacted him about his engine.. and asked about the transmission as well… ended up with the entire truck for $800. Beautiful 04 b4000 4 door 4wd ran perfectly at time of wreck.
These are before, actually this is a different green 98 stepside 4.0 auto 4wd but this one is a two door. I didn’t get any good pics of the truck until after….
It was not long before the truck was stripped down
The engine and trans were pulled,, t case, drivelines, exhaust all trims the interior was removed down to the metal. Rear window pulled and we had a cab and bed ready for building
This is how it sat for a very long time, except in this pic it still had a front bumper, engine, trans etc
Then we scored the Mazda Parts donor
04 B4000 SOHC 4wd auto 150K miles smashed
We stripped the mazda down in record time
