_Cole_Taylor_
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Well as many of you know I sold the ranger (Gordita) because I wanted something more “do everything” friendly, 4x4, heater, A/C, and more seats. So here she is! 91 two door explorer 4.0/4x4/manual trans/auto Tcase. Bought this thing as kind of a basket case but saw potential. It had 8” coilovers in the front with some nice solo style radius arms 6” beam pivot drop brackets 
and someone had built an under cab rear shock mount. All the fab work was actually pretty decent and the price was right so figured it would be a fast and easy way to get back in the dirt asap. 
The front end camber was all fucked off because of the drop brackets and the thing only had about 1” of droop in the front once I cycled it, took some measurements and seemed like the front hoops were based off a 10” coilovers
put some stock beam pivots back on and ordered some 10” coilovers to get this thing looking right, it does not have cut and turned beams so I put in the biggest cam tabs I could find. It still kinda sits like a Baja bug 
but I will get some c&t beams soon was just trying to make it out for new years! The interior was disgusting so I ripped all the carpet and headliner out 
made some seat brackets on the factory sliders 
Mounted the battery cause it was just chilling in the back 
got some cool parts from Ryan @cookcraft ! 
New wheels and tires 
got the new shocks in and cycled, it’s not perfect, I could gain another 1” of up travel if I move the mounts but I will eventually do the cookcraft shock hoops with the c&t beams and she’ll be dialed! 
Fancy shock shaft guards I had on the ranger too 
thing is already looking so much better! 
Still sitting too high in the rear with the original setup that it came with.
and someone had built an under cab rear shock mount. All the fab work was actually pretty decent and the price was right so figured it would be a fast and easy way to get back in the dirt asap. The front end camber was all fucked off because of the drop brackets and the thing only had about 1” of droop in the front once I cycled it, took some measurements and seemed like the front hoops were based off a 10” coilovers
put some stock beam pivots back on and ordered some 10” coilovers to get this thing looking right, it does not have cut and turned beams so I put in the biggest cam tabs I could find. It still kinda sits like a Baja bug but I will get some c&t beams soon was just trying to make it out for new years! The interior was disgusting so I ripped all the carpet and headliner out made some seat brackets on the factory sliders Mounted the battery cause it was just chilling in the back got some cool parts from Ryan @cookcraft ! New wheels and tires got the new shocks in and cycled, it’s not perfect, I could gain another 1” of up travel if I move the mounts but I will eventually do the cookcraft shock hoops with the c&t beams and she’ll be dialed! Fancy shock shaft guards I had on the ranger too thing is already looking so much better! Still sitting too high in the rear with the original setup that it came with.
