mike A
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from one extreme to the next
I bought a 1997 ranger last week with the 2.3/ 5 speed. I only paid 300 bucks for it so I figured that would give me enough room in the budget to do more than little dinky things here and there. the motor was knocking pretty bad so yesterday I pulled the motor and transmission out. Everything looked great pulling it apart so that was good news to me.
got the motor out and on the stand started digging in to it and found the knock, it chewed up and spit out 2 rod bearings and there was another one that looked like it was starved of oil. (if I had to guess it probably had to do with the fram filters the guy constantly used on it.)
all my cylinder walls looked great barely a carbon ring at the top of the cylinder.
future plans:
picture time (really busy with this project over the weekend so not too many pictures)
the worst bearing of them all
ready to pull
my ex orkin truck
EDIT: I changed up the name of the build on it cause most of my friends started messing with me about going from my current DD to this (once its running)
my current DD
I bought a 1997 ranger last week with the 2.3/ 5 speed. I only paid 300 bucks for it so I figured that would give me enough room in the budget to do more than little dinky things here and there. the motor was knocking pretty bad so yesterday I pulled the motor and transmission out. Everything looked great pulling it apart so that was good news to me.
got the motor out and on the stand started digging in to it and found the knock, it chewed up and spit out 2 rod bearings and there was another one that looked like it was starved of oil. (if I had to guess it probably had to do with the fram filters the guy constantly used on it.)
all my cylinder walls looked great barely a carbon ring at the top of the cylinder.
future plans:
- drop the rear about 2"
- maybe a turbo setup with roughly 10lbs of boost
- some nice pony rims
- going to do something with the seats most likely buckets with a expy console
picture time (really busy with this project over the weekend so not too many pictures)
the worst bearing of them all
ready to pull
my ex orkin truck
EDIT: I changed up the name of the build on it cause most of my friends started messing with me about going from my current DD to this (once its running)
my current DD
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