Well, it's been a 'great' couple of weeks, but I'm getting rid of my Ranger

[RangerSVT]

...I'm a professional mechanic for a sandblasting/painting company..

Last time I checked, sandblasting and painting is not mechanical repair, just cause you can buy an impact set and loosen a bolt does not make you a professional mechanic. It's obvious from your post that the only thing you are a professional at is excretement. Yeah, I said it, your a professional bullshitter. Or maybe its just that you simply don't have the brainpower and capacity to properly work on complex vehicles, which is why you choose to work on gm's. It's been stated, you don't like your truck. List it on eBay so you can get rid of it in 7 days or less, and cancel yourself from the great site we have here. For the last time, go change your tampon, sign off for the last time before you get yourself banned and go join a gm site somewhere and go be some painters tool fetcher

SVT

 

[press 1 for english]

Look at this bright idea. Then tell me Ford Engineers are dumb.

Holy Excrement Batman!

 

[Sunk]

Cool story, but I think maybe you're looking for this place-

http://www.s10forum.com/

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I can't believe this guy is trying to argue with Adsm over this....

And as far as that crack about "if I could get some proper support I would probably fix it and keep it at least for the summer..."

Well... Lemme tell you something there Einstein, you come in here screaming about how bad the truck sucks and going on about people eating poo then you expect someone to be nice to you about it? Genius, why didn't I think of that.... BUT IT IS NOT THE WAY TO ASK FOR PEOPLE TO BE NICE!!!!


I love my Fords. Yes, they do have their own quirks - every manufacturer does. Balljoints are a notorious failure on these newer ones that have "lifetime lubricated" joints. But at least when it comes to steering components, we just have to replace tie rod ends instead of Chevy's "intelligent" design that requires you to purchase the tie rod ends, pitman arm and idler arm.

Yes, there are some boneheaded designs. But it isn't really all that hard to work on them, especially compared to working on small equipment (and yes, I have worked on some of that - mostly German designed stuff - it is well-thought out for the most part, but for the most part an impact gun has no right to be used unless you're changing hydraulic cylinders or the wheels). I have had the front bumper on and off my Ranger a couple times. Yes, it is not as easy to do as on my older Fords, but it is not incredibly horrible. Horrible would be changing that starter on the Northstar motor.

 

[97RangerXLT]

Have fun polishing your turd of a Chevy.

You can't polish a turd.



I will say that when I did the upper gaskets on my 97 I completely understand what Pruples is saying about having to remove stuff to get to the stuff you need to work on and general tight working area.

But, the S10 with the 4.3 is no better, and much of the S10 is a lot more poorly designed. Ask an S10 owner about front end issues, or general hardware issues. like the seat recline lever or door handle for the third door in the extended cabs...Don't get me wrong, the 4.3 is a fairly decent motor, but the rest of the truck is garbage..

Hands down the easiest car that I have had to work on was my 1994 Dodge Intrepid with the 3.3L engine. lots of room, everything laid out fairly simple, and even tho it was front wheel drive the engine sits like a rear wheel drive.

AJ

 

[Spitfire1975]

This guy is starting to remind me of Jason.

 

[Spitfire1975]

You can't polish a turd.

Yes you can. It ends up looking like a Dodge.

Or a politician. One of the two. Depends on what was eaten.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Last time I checked, sandblasting and painting is not mechanical repair, just cause you can buy an impact set and loosen a bolt does not make you a professional mechanic. It's obvious from your post that the only thing you are a professional at is excretement. Yeah, I said it, your a professional bullshitter. Or maybe its just that you simply don't have the brainpower and capacity to properly work on complex vehicles, which is why you choose to work on gm's. It's been stated, you don't like your truck. List it on eBay so you can get rid of it in 7 days or less, and cancel yourself from the great site we have here. For the last time, go change your tampon, sign off for the last time before you get yourself banned and go join a gm site somewhere and go be some painters tool fetcher

SVT

I am gathering he works at a paint company and fixes their junk.

I have no idea what you would be able to use an impact for working under the hatch of a forklift aside from hitting things with it. The few (thank god) I have worked on were all very tight and everything was nearly unaccessable. I find that the funniest of everything in this thread, he thinks the most stupidly put together things are easier to work on than a Ranger.

I do wonder if he as ever changed a pan gasket on a forklift (you know, the cast iron bathtubs that weight a million pounds and are 3" off the floor)

They are a flaming riot to find parts for too, I think the last one we worked on could have had 3 or 4 different engines and parts are rediculously priced...

 

[Pruples]

Last time I checked, sandblasting and painting is not mechanical repair, just cause you can buy an impact set and loosen a bolt does not make you a professional mechanic. It's obvious from your post that the only thing you are a professional at is excretement. Yeah, I said it, your a professional bullshitter. Or maybe its just that you simply don't have the brainpower and capacity to properly work on complex vehicles, which is why you choose to work on gm's. It's been stated, you don't like your truck. List it on eBay so you can get rid of it in 7 days or less, and cancel yourself from the great site we have here. For the last time, go change your tampon, sign off for the last time before you get yourself banned and go join a gm site somewhere and go be some painters tool fetcher

SVT

Lol, it's my job to keep the machines (which wear out about twice as fast with all the sand around) running as well as to get the customers' trucks to run enough to get into the rooms for blasting/painting (the f***ers always drop them off not working) as well as to repair any damage the blasting does. It's enough that I'm always busy fixing something.

I am gathering he works at a paint company and fixes their junk.

I have no idea what you would be able to use an impact for working under the hatch of a forklift aside from hitting things with it. The few (thank god) I have worked on were all very tight and everything was nearly unaccessable. I find that the funniest of everything in this thread, he thinks the most stupidly put together things are easier to work on than a Ranger.

I do wonder if he as ever changed a pan gasket on a forklift (you know, the cast iron bathtubs that weight a million pounds and are 3" off the floor)

They are a flaming riot to find parts for too, I think the last one we worked on could have had 3 or 4 different engines and parts are rediculously priced...

The parts are readily available if you know who to go to. Though they are a bit expensive. I can't say I've ever had the pan off a forklift engine (normal engines don't push the gaskets out all the time), but I have pulled (and reinstalled afterwards) the engines in 3 of them for rebuild as well as a few other machines we have. And there are many things to use an impact for on a forklift. What brand forklifts have you worked on that they were all designed like my Ranger? Ours are for the most part (well, the Hysters more than the Clarks, the Clarks are a bit of a pain) designed that you can get tools on them (save for a few details like the bellhousing bolts that are on the side between the body of the forklift and the engine)

 

[InsaneRedRooster]

What brand forklifts have you worked on that they were all designed like my Ranger?

Stop insinuating that the ranger is poorly designed!


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[Pruples]

Stop insinuating that the ranger is poorly designed!

My experience working on things in general says it is. You don't have to like my opinion.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

The parts are readily available if you know who to go to. Though they are a bit expensive. I can't say I've ever had the pan off a forklift engine (normal engines don't push the gaskets out all the time), but I have pulled (and reinstalled afterwards) the engines in 3 of them for rebuild as well as a few other machines we have. And there are many things to use an impact for on a forklift. What brand forklifts have you worked on that they were all designed like my Ranger? Ours are for the most part (well, the Hysters more than the Clarks, the Clarks are a bit of a pain) designed that you can get tools on them (save for a few details like the bellhousing bolts that are on the side between the body of the forklift and the engine)

Carb, oil pan, and side cover gasket, on a Clark, throttle linkage and the front sheeves on a Hyster and radiator on another Hyster. Its been awhile but I think I got that right...

We are picky who we work on them for so thankfully we don't see very many of them.

You plain and simple cannot get anything for any of them locally, parts stores do not list anything for them making simple things like spark plugs or filters a two day wait. What amounts to a "carb kit" runs about $300, since I had just spent roughly that much for a new 4bbl Edelbrock for my Ranger I asked what a new one was... a cool $700 for a itty bitty one barreled carburator. I don't know of a single tractor carb kit that runs more than $50.

Probably much like a Ranger, the more you did it the more it would be "home" to you... I think just about everything about them is stupidly set up. IMO they are cursed from the getgo, they only have such a small amount of space to put a required amount of stuff. That is what they run into with modern vehicles, you gotta fit all this stuff in that little hole... compromises have to be made.

In '95 S-10's were still in the dark ages of fuel injection, either TBI or CFI. They are very simple to work on because they were basically 1980's tech. In '96 they matched what Ford had done in '86 and went to multiport fuel injection. GM did the same trick as Ford, John Deere and probably everybody else... as they changed things they changed to metric. They didn't run out and change every part to metric threads overnight to make it easy on mechanics.

 

[armadillon]

When you leave and go buy another vehicle, be sure to put insurance on it. It's mandatory you know. I don't want your fleet of inferior vehicles killing/hurting people and then you aren't able to cover them or their families.

www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128225

 

[Andy D]

Ford and prolly every automaker design their cars with a bias toward ease of assembly. DIS- assembly is not a major consideration. That is the way of the world. Suck it up cupcake

The VW Type 1, the bug was hand assembled. That is why they were so easy to work on. Commercial stuff like fork lifts should be easy to work on for the same reason When I worked in the graving docks at the shipyard, there was a few cherry pickers and bobcat FELs used by the blasters and painters. Talk about tortured rigs. There were 2 ton fork lifts that were used 24 hrs a day too.

 

[racsan]

chevy astro vans with the 4.3 were a real pain to work on, if the water pump was bad you started taking things off at the top & working your way down. plugs? right bank from inside thru the doghouse, left bank from underneath. for the most part it seems ive had to work on the chevies, just drive the fords. i konw its just dumb luck, but thats how its been for me. mopar products? ive worked on a few, never owned one. my first car was a '79 amc concord, they mixed stuff, had (factory) a chrysler automatic trans, motorcraft ignition, ac/delco alternator & starter, carb i dont recall, could have been a carter. if it had many more different parts, johnny cash would have wrote a song about it instead of "that caddilac".