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lpdizzydawg
New Member
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2011
- Messages
- 15
- Reaction score
- 1
- Points
- 0
- Location
- La Porte, Texas
- Vehicle Year
- 2001
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 3.slow
- Transmission
- Automatic
As anyone can see i am a new member to this site (only a month old or so)
I have had my 2001 ranger for about a year and a half, i could not pass up a 2001 ranger with 18000 miles on it! it was a rental truck from RSC and was a plant truck. when i bought it the tranny was slipping bad bad. thats why they sold it for 500. so i went to my local autozone and bought some trans tune and a new filter and tranny oil and started the steps of the trans tune. well when it came down to dropping the pan to replace the filter and tranny oil, i took off every tranny pan bolt with my fingers!!! so needless to say thats why it was slipping lol no tranny fluid! since then i have not had a problem one with my truck.
Well after hearing rumors of a painless 5.0 swap i was curious and started researching and found TRS.com, i joined and have learnd a lot on the tech pages! so now i have decided to do the swap and swap the rear end with the 8.8. also it has made me wanna change the over all look of my truck.not to mention i used to have an anger problem and used my truck as a punching bag, but not no more lol to expensive
Yesterday i went and bought all new parts for my truck. New mirrrors, new headlamps, side markers, fenders with the hoples for the flares, grille, grille insert, bumper, edge valince, and fog lights, got it all from my local certifit for about 450$, i pulled all the old and started on with the new, i hot bolted everything yesterday and with in an hour or so from now i am gonna go out and align all the parts and go ahead and tie them down!!!! i have pic in my profile of old and new (o btw, i am still gonna go back with my angry eyes headlamps) stop by my profile and see Plz!
I have had my 2001 ranger for about a year and a half, i could not pass up a 2001 ranger with 18000 miles on it! it was a rental truck from RSC and was a plant truck. when i bought it the tranny was slipping bad bad. thats why they sold it for 500. so i went to my local autozone and bought some trans tune and a new filter and tranny oil and started the steps of the trans tune. well when it came down to dropping the pan to replace the filter and tranny oil, i took off every tranny pan bolt with my fingers!!! so needless to say thats why it was slipping lol no tranny fluid! since then i have not had a problem one with my truck.
Well after hearing rumors of a painless 5.0 swap i was curious and started researching and found TRS.com, i joined and have learnd a lot on the tech pages! so now i have decided to do the swap and swap the rear end with the 8.8. also it has made me wanna change the over all look of my truck.not to mention i used to have an anger problem and used my truck as a punching bag, but not no more lol to expensive
Yesterday i went and bought all new parts for my truck. New mirrrors, new headlamps, side markers, fenders with the hoples for the flares, grille, grille insert, bumper, edge valince, and fog lights, got it all from my local certifit for about 450$, i pulled all the old and started on with the new, i hot bolted everything yesterday and with in an hour or so from now i am gonna go out and align all the parts and go ahead and tie them down!!!! i have pic in my profile of old and new (o btw, i am still gonna go back with my angry eyes headlamps) stop by my profile and see Plz!
