Ford Ranger 4x4 Prelander Build

[theycallmeWALLY]

U think you will make Mojavi road in December ?

I doubt it. Still a laundry list of stuff to do unfortunately. Hopefully I can catch a ride with someone though. I'm guessing your going for the Rage to the River?

 

[Zwiley13]

I doubt it. Still a laundry list of stuff to do unfortunately. Hopefully I can catch a ride with someone though. I'm guessing your going for the Rage to the River?

Yeah that’s my plan I should have a spot open but I’ll let you know closer to then

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

Yeah that’s my plan I should have a spot open but I’ll let you know closer to then

Let me know dude. Always down for a rip if I gots the time.


On other news about the truck... I bought some 37" General's for it. Came off of Casey Benito (dirtco) Truck. 4 are new and 4 are slightly used. Pretty stoked on them and the price I was able to get them for.

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

Brian shot me an update with the shock mounts tacked in place!

 

[Zwiley13]

Truck is gonna be beautiful!

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

UPDATES

Went to Brian's house over the weekend to check in and hang out. Wish I could cruise over more but it's a 3 hour drive each way...

I had dropped out a mounted 37 on my way out to the clean up a few weeks back... 37's are BIGGGG




Steering is in place, peddles are all mounted up. Shock tabs should be in their final resting place. More stuff to mount but there has been A LOT of work done so far. Thanks dude.

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

More Updates!










Ordered up one of these guys from Marcel!




And lastly the Dash is almost installed. Going to keep it as simple as possible with a RacePak display, 1 Switch pros for lights and such, and then a temp guage and oil pressure gauge on the passenger side.

 

[marcytech]

man this thing is awesome. that cage/ 3 seat set up is everything i want my truck to be. do you have a picture of all 3 seats installed?

im redoing my cage soon to make more room inside and now im leaning towards updating the cab to the 4 door ext cab too

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

man this thing is awesome. that cage/ 3 seat set up is everything i want my truck to be. do you have a picture of all 3 seats installed?

im redoing my cage soon to make more room inside and now im leaning towards updating the cab to the 4 door ext cab too

I love/hate how these stupid trucks snowball.

I actually was just borrowing Brian's Seat to test how a 3rd seat would look/feel.

I'll text you some pictures of how I made the 3rd seat mount on the Turtle 2.0. Pretty simple design that bolts in to the factory seat belt mounts and then two 1/2" rivnuts I put into the floor. I used rivnuts since it has a sub frame that would make it super hard to get a wrench on.

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

Picking up the truck this weekend. Going to bring it home and it will have to live under a car cover for a few weeks before I can do much of anything to it.

Stoked to have it back though.

 

[the_fablab_]

Did Mai Tai paint all the fab work for you?

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

Did Mai Tai paint all the fab work for you?

Nope. Which is why I didn't go pick it up last weekend...

Luckily the cab is basically sealed and will have the windshield taped down for now. Hood and fenders are on as well to mostly cover the engine cage fab.

Engine still needs to come out so I'll be giving her a solid WD40 whip down and it'll have the car cover on it.

Not sure If i want to throw down the big bucks on any steel it yet for the engine cage.

I'm just not sure what tabs and additional welding is going to be involved yet.

 

[the_fablab_]

Throw some weldable primer on it before you tarp it up. We all know you aren't going to touch this thing for years.

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

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[theycallmeWALLY]

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[GahnRacing]

Throw some weldable primer on it before you tarp it up. We all know you aren't going to touch this thing for years.

COLD

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

COLD

Mikey likes to dish out some harsh love.

 

[84projectFORD]

Mikey likes to dish out some harsh love.

the question is... will you prove him wrong? lol

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

the question is... will you prove him wrong? lol

 

[h0runner]

brian is doing some beautiful work on that thing. looks awesome!