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- Vehicle Year
- 1996 / 2021
- Make / Model
- Ford Ranger
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- 4.0 V6
- Engine Size
- 4.0 / 2.3 Ecoboost
- Transmission
- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 4WD
- Total Lift
- 6-inches
- Tire Size
- 33x12.50x15
Early this year I bought a 2010 Ford F-350 FX4 Lariet Super Duty. It's a rust free Texas truck and I couldn't pass it up. It has the 6.4 diesel with an automatic.
Here is how it looked when I brought it home:
After I got it I:
Repainted the bumpers
Scraped out the crappy do-it-yourself bedliner job someone did, and re-did it
Added marker lights on top of the cab, and along the running boards
Added a winch plate and Smittybilt 12,000lb winch
Added a large tool box in the bed (never seen one this wide before)
Added (2) 100W ProComp lights to the front along with a LED light bar (LOVE that thing!)
Add a mini LED bar between the tool box lids, and (2) LED's under the rear bumper
Installed a Rough Country 3-inch lift
Put on 295/75/18 (34.50x12x18) Cooper Discoverer SST Pro Mud Terrains
Rough Country says you can run 35x12.50x18's with this lift, but the drivers side front would have rubbed the radius arm on full lock turning left. The 295/75/18's just barely rub on the drivers side at full lock. The idea tire on a stock rim would have been a 285/75/18 (basically 34.8x11.5x18). Really close to a full 35 inch tire, but still narrow enough to not rub.
Someone suggested getting new rims to run a true 35x12.50x18, but it would have set me back $1,000 in wheels just to gain a 1/2 inch larger tire.
Plus, I like the way it looks with the factory wheels and FX4 decal. It looks like this is how it should have came off the Ford assembly line (If I ran Ford....)
Here is how it looks now:
I'd like to get a kit with a programmer to remove the exhaust filter and add some horsepower. Every damn time the truck starts the whole damn 'Cleaning Exhaust Filter' process and wants me to keep driving, is right about the time I'm pulling in somewhere to shut it off.
Here is how it looked when I brought it home:
After I got it I:
Repainted the bumpers
Scraped out the crappy do-it-yourself bedliner job someone did, and re-did it
Added marker lights on top of the cab, and along the running boards
Added a winch plate and Smittybilt 12,000lb winch
Added a large tool box in the bed (never seen one this wide before)
Added (2) 100W ProComp lights to the front along with a LED light bar (LOVE that thing!)
Add a mini LED bar between the tool box lids, and (2) LED's under the rear bumper
Installed a Rough Country 3-inch lift
Put on 295/75/18 (34.50x12x18) Cooper Discoverer SST Pro Mud Terrains
Rough Country says you can run 35x12.50x18's with this lift, but the drivers side front would have rubbed the radius arm on full lock turning left. The 295/75/18's just barely rub on the drivers side at full lock. The idea tire on a stock rim would have been a 285/75/18 (basically 34.8x11.5x18). Really close to a full 35 inch tire, but still narrow enough to not rub.
Someone suggested getting new rims to run a true 35x12.50x18, but it would have set me back $1,000 in wheels just to gain a 1/2 inch larger tire.
Plus, I like the way it looks with the factory wheels and FX4 decal. It looks like this is how it should have came off the Ford assembly line (If I ran Ford....)
Here is how it looks now:
I'd like to get a kit with a programmer to remove the exhaust filter and add some horsepower. Every damn time the truck starts the whole damn 'Cleaning Exhaust Filter' process and wants me to keep driving, is right about the time I'm pulling in somewhere to shut it off.
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