Took the B2 down to Car-X to have it safety inspected. It failed (surprise, surprise). All 3 rubber brake hoses had cracks, the exhaust pipe had become loose at the inlet and outlet of the muffler, and the power steering pump was leaking.
All-in-all, nothing severe. It would have all been pretty simple if Ford's engineering department wasn't full of sadists. The location of the nut where the metal line attaches to the rubber line on the passenger front couldn't be less accessible. Even with a line wrench, I ended up rounding the fitting because I couldn't get the wrench at a good angle. Nor could I get any PB Blaster on the fitting without just "spraying and praying". I ended up cutting the line and making a new one.
I decided to put on a new muffler rather than trying to reattach the old one. It was pretty crusty. So I bought a Magnaflow Rumble fully welded muffler at autozone and welded it on.
Well, mostly welded it on. I used clamps in a couple places because I'm lazy.
I thought I could use both of the new lines I had just put on the farm truck ranger, but the 2.3 and the 2.9 use different high pressure lines. Luckily, it looks like the low pressure line was the problem and they appear to be identical. So I changed that and just cleaned up the high pressure line.
So you want to paint your truck with bed liner, do you? WELL DON'T! Unless you like washing your truck with a kitchen scrub brush. I absolutely HATE that this thing has bed liner on it. It looks ok, but it sucks when you scrape against it, you can't put a cup on it cause it just slides off, and it weighs a friggin ton. What a terrible idea. But it won't scratch on the trail! STFU and go get some plastidip.</rant>
My garage space: