Recent content by CowbroPhil

Well, I dropped the front end out to give it a "full prep". I knew the pivot bushings were toast, but holy shit, i picked a good time to dive in. The cross shaft in the front ARB was broke into 3 pieces. Luckily the ring gear kept the broken pieces from ejecting themselves from the carrier and...

Thanks! I'll get some more pics up. I also ordered some uniballs for the beam pivots. The rubber bushings are toast after that mojave road trip. Time for a full front end prep this weekend.

Overall the gearing is as good as it gets. I'm at ~2500rpms at 65mph which is good for about 15-16mpgs. This is with a 5 speed. With an automatic, I would go one step lower to 5.13s since the overdrive gear on the auto is higher than the manual. With the 35s and 4.88s it was just a little too...

'I've been post-running since pre-runnin' was race-running' Everyone loves talking about their trucks, right? So why not a build thread to cover the last 20 years. This month marks 20 years of ownership of my little red Ranger. Back in 03 she was bone stock with a camper shell. I added a body...

Haha, so much to say... I'll just leave this one here. Circa 2004.

For sure, i know where Guinda is. i used to go dirt biking at Indian Valley and Stonyford back in the day.

I try to use it as much as I can. And it gets driven everywhere except for one trip to Moab, i towed it out. It wasn't originally a stepside, i'll get a build thread going on the truck and post the full story of how it came to be in there. It is a manual trans.

Yup, and I see ol' BajaKyke commuting in the Banana Truck about once a month too. Can't miss that thing on the freeway.

I'm in Dixon, near Davis.

I'm Phil, from Northern California, It has been a few years since I've been on any forums, been around on DR since about `05 but never posted much. The Ranger is a 93 4x4 with D44 TBB, ARBs front and rear, 5:1 Atlas t-case, deavers, 2.5 smooth bodies front and rear, airbumps, a little more than...