Recent content by 02dangerranger

I have multiple parts off a 2002 ford ranger; Ranger 8.8 axle with I think 3.73 gears $150 Spare Dana 35 front housing with 4.10 gears $200 Stock leaf springs, lift torsion bar, dostech shocks, and tailgate $200 for all of it or message for individual Make offer on stuff, I want it gone...

rear bypass mounts have been pretty bad for a while (ever since I did them) so I took the chance to open up CAD at work the other day and model some new ones to get cut on our laser order and finally got them put together and on the truck. They were leaned inboard pretty significantly like...

It’s time to buy tires for the rig instead of parts for a change, I’ve always loved BFG’s but have seen people on here with rave reviews about other manufactures so does anyone have thoughts on what brand 35’s I should buy?

Update: there is no update! Been dailying the rig for a few days trying to get the emissions stuff to pop so I can get it smogged which is not going so great, so it may make a trip to Arizona soon if I get annoyed enough lol. In the week of daily driver duties fixing the AC has been moving up...

Well after a day of taking the wrong year bumper and cutting it half apart, almost burning a nipple off welding, and 2 beers, I have a front bumper again finally! Also bonus pics from post office test drive and night pick cause bitches love fancy lights right?

Simple day plugging away at little stuff, got some hood pins mounted since I had to remove the latch to make room for the new tranny cooler. Touched up the nut I welded in with some of the alloy armor paint I grabbed to try and the shit is nice, best spray paint I’ve ever used! Hoping that god...

Back in town from work and found an absolute STUNNER at the junk yard! Apparently the mercury mountaineers, or at least this one, have all braided fuel lines instead of the plastic ones like the rangers and explorers do. Only con is you may have to go up a couple stories to find the right one...

If no one else takes these, I can pick them up locally.

Very true, if we treat the axle as the fulcrum the 200lbs of tires on top of that would exert the same 200lbs or ~90Kg of mass. The further they’re moved back the longer their lever arm becomes and the 90Kg of mass becomes hundreds of pounds of force acting on the rear of the truck due to the...

I just put some on my truck and couldn’t agree more, I’m putting anything I can back there to help it out, including 3/8 plate work that I get free from work lol

So heads up for all the people on here that might be as dumb as me, don’t put your main fuel line up against the EGR tube, will scare the shit out of the next morning when you start it up 😅 In other news I took the chance to mount my fenders prop up a bumper and son of a bitch the thing looks...

Almost forgot the rules, pics to prove it happened

Shit box update: I bought a reman sohc motor from autozone and am finishing up the swap as we speak. The autozone engine is actually super legit, came with I think 3 if not 4 year warranty, compression and oil test results, melting oil pump, and full Felpro gasket set. Took it on a test drive...

Well bad news, was cruising truck last week when the engine shut off on me going down the road. After I pulled over and got it restarted it wouldn’t do more than 5-10mph so I limped it home and parked it. Tried replacing fuel and fuel filter cause there was some bad gas in it and that helped...

Been working on some of the little stuff the last few weeks and got the bed on and have been driving the truck around town at night when it’s not hot as balls. Finished mounting the shifter cable to the trans then forgot to block the tires and the truck rolled off the driveway into my dads...