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December 2009 Off-Road Truck Of The Month


Jim Oaks

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Ford Ranger
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6-inches
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33x12.50x15

Owner: LittleBigFoot
Vehicle: 2000 Ford Ranger
Specifications:

2000 Ford Ranger XLT, 3.0l flex (DEAD) 4r44e auto with electric BW1354

Front:

Full Width HP Dana 44
Molly shafts
4.30:1 gearing
Open diff
52" Chevy leaves with 8" shackles
3/4 ton ford van power steering box
1 ton TRE's
Home built high angle drive shaft (tom woods can eat my shaft)
Home brew shock hoops
Warn lock outs

Rear:
31 spline 9"
Molly shafts
4.30:1 gearing
Open diff
63" chevy 1/2 ton leaves
Belltech shackles
2" block
5/8 u-bolts
Cantilever shock system
Home made drive shaft with 1350 yokes
Tone Ring is a BMX bike gear tacked to the pinion yoke with a bracket for the vss.


General:
Around 8ish inches of lift
35x15r15 super swamper LTBs on gnarly offset stock 79 Bronco Rims
82" track width (out side of tire to outside of tire)
112" wheel base
Measured at 22" of wheel travel front and rear
Tube stinger bumper made of .120" wall, 1.75" O.D. HREW with front receiver hitch
Home brew rock sliders made of .120 wall 2" O.D. HREW
33 gallon fuel tank from a 84 bronco massaged between the frame rails
Custom home brew "flat bed" made of 1.75" O.D. .120" wall square stock and diamond plate
A few spare tire carriers
Cobra CB with 48" antenna
Amo box center concile
Rubber undercoated floor with drain plugs

Fried the rings in my 3.0. Pulling the 3.0 currently, and am building a supercharged 408 or 427w w/ a C6 trans. Still dealing with transfercase options. Trying to rig up passenger drop to run a Chevy Dana60 (cost)
Looking at a np203 range box bolted up to a pass drop NP205.

IT'S NEVER OVER.

For more details and photos, click HERE.
 
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scott5640

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congrats, my truck will look like that.....one day
 

Doom's Day Custom

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The link is bad please fix
 

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congrats mooseknucklers:thefinger:
 

MountainMike

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245 CID
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The fun begins where the pavement ends
Congrats LBF! Big headlight Rangers forever:D
 

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35x12.50x15
Congrats on the win, that is a nice Ranger truggy.
 

LittleBigFoot

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Building a 408w
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Automatic
Thanks for all the kind words guys! It's been a helluva build and it's only gettin better.

I'm about to start pullin the 3.0 to dump in a 351w (Still playing with bore/stroke/ratio/crank/rods to figure out if I wanna go 393, 408, 417, or 427)

Lookin like it's gonna get a 2wd C6, and a divorced Dana 20

I've got a 14 bolt I just need to pick up and I'm lookin for a Chevy Dana 60 front still.

Oh it never ends.
 

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350+1
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2WD
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N/A
Total Drop
3/4
Tire Size
23570R15
My credo
JESUS Loves Ya!
Congrats!!!

You think maybe one day your truk could teach my truk my to climb rocks........Waaaaaaaaaahahahhahahhaaaaaaa
 
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LittleBigFoot

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Well, considering yers is a little shorter, we'll start with pebbles and curbs and taking good lines to get out of the horribly designed gas station parking lot.

I crawled a local trail here in a AWD Subby Waggy, gone mudding in an Infinity G20, and Took a Mazda 323 up an rti ramp a lot further then any of us thought it would go or wanted it to go.

You can do what ever you put your mind to.
 

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Well, considering yers is a little shorter, we'll start with pebbles and curbs and taking good lines to get out of the horribly designed gas station parking lot.

I crawled a local trail here in a AWD Subby Waggy, gone mudding in an Infinity G20, and Took a Mazda 323 up an rti ramp a lot further then any of us thought it would go or wanted it to go.

You can do what ever you put your mind to.
i once drove my Audi A4 that was dropped 2", through a wash because the CHP closed the highway to the mountain. we got to the rental shop and they asked how we got there. i told them i drove thru the wash. they said alot of desert trucks get stuck out there all the time and where amused we made it there in a car.

its all in the driver.
 

MountainMike

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...gone mudding in an Infinity G20...
Just like that day I decided to go play in some little puddles and my buddy brought his FWD Eagle Summit. It followed my pretty good.:icon_rofl:
 

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oh my little g20 was a tank.As long as you kept her bouncing off the rev limiter she'd continue moving forward no matter how caked tires got.
 

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