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engine cage complete - Beams and steering on In august we also purchased a new Daily Driver in the form of this '22 Bronco Black Diamond Back to ranger prgress: Found some super cheap temporary wheels on FB market place for the new lug pattern, and Mounted some locked 2.0x2.0 Bumpstops...

Dang It's been too long. Picking up where I left off... I started working on the Truck again in August 2022. I dropped out the old D35 setup and started fitting up the goodies from Giant Motorsports. Installed Beam Gussets: Engine cage mockup: After test fitting everything I sprayed...

Over those months I began to recognize more and more the shortcomings of the truck. Namely the D35 wheel bearings which always worked loose or wore loose with the big 35's, the narrow track width which made sliding the truck pretty sketchy and limited the front suspension capability. I knew for...

Ran out of time yesterday! While I was putting the engine together I decided I wanted to just have a transmission built. I knew I wanted to keep the truck fairly street friendly so I wanted overdrive. I went down the path of a 4l80, but in the end decided a 4l60 would probably be fine if it was...

I had made up my mind I was not going to be going through the effort of an engine swap to put in another 3.Slow While I originally thought about going the explorer 5.0 route I knew I wanted more power out of the truck than that would provide and modifying the 5.0 can be pricey. I would have...

Around this time a few things happened. First, our go-to creepy crawl hardcore off-road spot got shut down. Still plenty of trails locally but no real hardcore crawling/technical off-roading and second, I started hanging out with some bad influences. I had always been aware of the pre-runner...

Hello everybody - I'm new here Really enjoying the forum so far. This thread is to document my 1997 Ranger Build. This Post is Phase 1 and 2 - Phase 3 is where the pre-runner stuff really takes shape. She started life as super clean bone stock Seminole County forestry truck. I bought it in...

This rig is awesome! Hope its back up and running. Would love to build a similar rig as a crawler hauler/Chase truck.

This thing is cool! I have a d44ttb ranger also. Seems like your truck works awesome for everything you throw at it.

Actually a surprising amount! I'm sure not as crazy as out west. Lots of Rzr bumps out here, but we have some "big" stuff on our favorite powerline trails! Yes - for budget, and fitment reasons the LS made sense in my case. Would love to 7.3 zilla swap it someday though!

Howdy, New user here - was a lurker on DR years ago Excited to participate more here! I am a master certified ford tech, but started working in finance a few years ago. I have a '97 Ranger that's now got a long travel D44 setup from Giant motorsports and 2.5 locked offroad coilovers and...