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1985 ranger rebuild


austin

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so here's the background. I owned the truck when I was 18 and drove it everyday 100 miles to college for about a year then wanted to get a new ranger 4x4 so I sold this truck and bought a 2009 ranger. I was driving around trying to find a place to fish and sold my old ranger for sale so I bought it back and started to fix it up to have a cool truck to drive around every once in a while. the truck has factory cruise control (still works) 80k miles, factory a/c (does not work, somebody cut the lines). a really cool center console with a light readout to tell you what lights were not working. the plan for this truck is to lower it by doing the axle flip in the rear and dream beams in the front. for wheels I want fr500's in black and take out the SUPER POWERFUL 2.8L and put in a 302 or a 2.3 turbo still undecided.
 

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Looking good!
 

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Nice work. What color are you going to paint it ?
 

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got some painting done today finally. around here its been nice for one day and then rains for two weeks so progress is slow and I work a tone so I only get one day a week to work on it. the color is charcoal grey metallic basecoat and clearcoat.
 

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Awesome. It's looking really good!

I vote turbo 2.3! You can't go wrong though..
 

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I agree you dont see it that often and way cooler but I'm worried about parts availability...
 

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That is a pretty cool center console. In all the old Rangers I have poked through I have only found one other one like that, and it was pretty well destroyed.

Awesome project BTW.
 

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