What did you do to your Ranger today? (Part Deux!)

[DILLARD000]

Does it go well with grilled cheese?

Goes better with SourKraut, Snitzengrueben & a liter of dark Beer.

 

[Rick W]

How about Toronto red?

Looks sweet, but Rustoleum doesn’t carry that color....

 

[racsan]

Rustoleum discontinued the dark blue I used on my truck, Youd think navy blue would be a common color they would make forever. Not sure what the trucks original paint color was, it was darn close to rustoleum navy blue. Closest thing now is cobalt metallic blue, which is cool, but Id have to paint the whole truck, and trailer.

 

[Rick W]

Rustoleum discontinued the dark blue I used on my truck,

Try calling/emailing Rustoleum direct - rustoleum.com. They might have some or may know a location that has some. Cost a few bucks to ship, but you wouldn’t have to re-paint.

You may want to also do a “wanted“ ad on craigslist. I’ve had pretty good luck finding weird stuff for little dollars doing that. Here’s my “wanted” pic. I usually do a picture with this as half and a pic of what I want as the other half.

 

[Dirtman]

Try calling/emailing Rustoleum direct - rustoleum.com. They might have some or may know a location that has some. Cost a few bucks to ship, but you wouldn’t have to re-paint.

You may want to also do a “wanted“ ad on craigslist. I’ve had pretty good luck finding weird stuff for little dollars doing that. Here’s my “wanted” pic. I usually do a picture with this as half and a pic of what I want as the other half.

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Using a neon red "wanted" sign on craigslist might not be the best idea...

 

[Rick W]

Using a neon red "wanted" sign on craigslist might not be the best idea...

Are you bringing up the whole dress thing again?

 

[Dirtman]

Are you bringing up the whole dress thing again?

I'm not 100% sure what the "dress thing" is but it definitely sounds like you may need to stay far away from craigslist...

 

[sgtsandman]

Aren’t those jumper boxes pretty low amp draw? Could you buy a small inverter and just keep it plugged in in the vehicle all the time? Maybe rig it to a “when truck is running” circuit so it doesn’t draw down the battery. It’d be constantly charged and constantly present, yes/no?

As a general rule. it's not good to keep a rechargeable battery on charge all the time. It's not as much of a problem now, depending on the type of battery, but rechargeable batteries tend to develop a memory if you do that. We used to run into that all the time with radios at work. Certain people would use the radio and promptly put it right back in the charger when done using it at that moment. They killed a lot of batteries that way.

 

[sgtsandman]

I just throw mine on the charger when I think about it.

I have started my tractor a couple times with one charge without going flat so even if it isn't exactly charged 110% I think it would still start a normal vehicle a couple times.

I try to check the charge on them every quarter when I run the generators. Occasionally, it is good to drain them down and recharge them for the whole battery memory thing. There seems to always be someone who needs a jump at some point in the family.

 

[Rick W]

Nothing’s ever easy. I get a free 310,000 mile, 34-yr old truck, I don’t even have it on the road yet, and trouble already.

I was going to put the wheels on. I inspected the brakes. Front are fine. Pulled the rear drums, passenger looks ok, but driver is evenly covered in rear end grease/oil. That’s going to make it pull, huh?

Here’s the question: should I go to all the trouble of fixing the driver, all those springs and pinched fingers, or just evenly coat the passenger side with gear lube? Should I pull some from the rear end so it matches? Or can I just use new lube?

I ordered a new set of shoes, seals and bearings as a fallback position...

 

[Roert42]

This stuff works great, makes a bit of of mess though.

Just hose the other drum down this whenever it start to pull again.

 

[Rick W]

Baby steps: 6 more great second hand tires mounted and balanced on the 14” bullet holes for the trailers. Getting the 4wd on the road is first priority after I swap the vacuum modulator in the Mark V and get it running again. & I’m going to experiment with cleaning and polishing the bullet hole wheels cuz my polishing heads and pads came in. (And I’ll do something to piss off my gal, it just hasn’t come to mind yet).

 

[Roert42]

Pulled the Box of the new ranger to swap the sending unit last night. Bed was super rusty, but I'm not really surprised because it had a drop-in bed liner. Broke four of the six bolts, the other two were like new. Some light rust on the frame so we wire wheeled it clean and shot some black paint on it that I had laying around. Was way easier to pull the box instead of dropping the tank.

 

[Rick W]

spent some time on the summer wheels with polish, heres a before & after . Not new condition but a lot better than they were.

Wow,

I’ll I’ll be very happy if I can get close to that!

 

[scotts90ranger]

Got some practice in with my new to me Harbor Freight manual tire changer... since the tires/wheels I got at an auction were the wrong bolt pattern I started swapping them over... pulled two of the worn out 31's off of the Jeep wheels that were on the explorer, probably tomorrow I'll grab the steel jeep wheels from the back shed to pull the shot 235's off of them to put the 225's on them since I don't have 4 matching 15" extra wheels...

I gotta say, that tire changer isn't too bad if you use some tricks and don't care what the wheels look like... I could clean up some edges to make the lever easier on the wheels and pad the notch on the bead breaker side... I got it at a barn sale used for $20 or $40, bolted it to a pallet with some 2x6's screwed to the top...