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

[Snoranger]

I’m trying to keep this short,

 

[Alan_nc]

Put in a new brake light switch (the one that connects to the pedal). Had cleaned the old one but didn't seems to work all the time. Bought the expensive one (fomoco) from RockAuto. $23.65

10 minute install and working fine.

Drove the truck to Lowes and picked up 10 bales of pine straw. Yea more yard work.

 

[2drxploder]

definitely a lenghty read, but im impressed, seems like it would consume a lot of your time!

 

[Rick W]

Yes, quite a lot. But it’s also very very personal, and it’s amazing how we can make time for that. I think I mentioned somewhere else I retired twice and it just didn’t stick. I worked hard and I’m fortunate that I have a couple of dollars tucked away, and my third career in commercial real estate left me a lot of flexibility. But it really comes down to one thing, and that’s to do the right thing.

My little old lady handicapped neighbor was forced out of her home when the construction backed up sewage in her home. A little old lady next to that was also forced out of the home, and both of those homes are vacant now. The guy next to them was sickly, but everybody knows he’d be around forever, and he died about six months after they tore up his whole property. They killed him. The guy in the corner was in bed with them and let them tear down his house, and then use his property as a construction equipment staging yard for six years, illegally . A couple doors down, there was a beautiful young lady in a wheelchair. Her mom bought that house and redid that house for her needs, and these guys forced her out claiming they were building in ADA sidewalk, which is really the ruse for hiding that it’s supposed to be for tractor trailers.

In the age of instant communication, all the scummy players and politicians have learned from each other how to cheat the public for profit or for power. There’s only one thing they can’t overcome, someone who’s willing to look them in the eye and say enough is enough. Not that I’m some hero and I am without sin, but we also have a family tradition that goes back about 500 years for taking care of our people, taking care of people who can’t take care of themselves. I’ve been bloodied in this thing, but it’s nothing compared to what they’ve done to my neighbors.

And, we have won most of the battles. I can’t even imagine how well we would have done if I wasn’t crippled and bedridden for several years in the middle.

My family is Polish Christian from Poland. Everybody has heard of the holocaust where 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis. That is tragic, and I don’t mean to take away from that in any way shape or form. But the Russians killed the Polish leadership, all the college professors, etc., including my family, at Katyn, and actually killed about 12 million in total. Mao Tse Tung killed 40 million in China. Anybody who thinks that can’t happen in the United States needs to study history, and not the crap they’re teaching in public schools now, they need to take a hard look at the 2020 election and what happened with ballot stuffing and the complicit government failing to investigate, The barricades around the capital, and what’s happening in Congress right now where they are printing money to give to them selves and their friends, and tearing down the law enforcement branches of government and the military.

I weep for my children, and those younger than me. I have not seen the worst of this, they will.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

So let me shift gears. It feels like I’ve got a little slack in the drive train of my F250. It’s not real bad, but it’s more play than I think should be there. It’s somewhere between the transmission, transfer case and the rear axle, I haven’t used four-wheel-drive in a few years since I was sick and had these legal problems. When I was cleaning the gas tanks, and I had a jacked up, do you joints looked good, and there didn’t seem to be play between the two rear wheels when I watch them back-and-forth, and I couldn’t isolate what might be worn causing the slack spot. I know I can probably figure it out, but I also know a lot of you guys are experts at these things, and probably know some tricks. Could somebody tell me a one, two, three step etc. procedure to started point A And track it down.

1996 F250HD, 4wd, two door extended cab, long bed, 7.3 turbo diesel. 120,000 miles, I bought it new, and it has really been pampered. You guys think of it is a pretty good work truck, but it’s actually a Dunwoody truck: it occasionally carries antiques and pulls the JetSki‘s to the lake...

i’ll help appreciated. I’m afraid something is going to break eventually, obviously would be more expensive to tackle, and now I have a couple of rangers for all my chores

Don’t suppose you would be willing to leave me that truck in your will?

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

So weird continuation of my red Ranger with a vibration issue... after my adventure yesterday morning I decided to lock the hubs in before leaving this morning just in case and... no vibration. None. No weird noise. Did not put it in 4x4, just had the hubs locked. Unlocked them after work and got a vibration. None of this makes sense to me.

 

[Rick W]

Don’t suppose you would be willing to leave me that truck in your will?

Number one son has dibs. Daughter lives in an apartment smaller than the F250 in NYC, but her vet husband is now interested in the Missing Linc if they can afford the parking.

But as I get older and grayer, that F250 will be the last I drive. I already have the little stool on a string to get in and out (Redhead thinks I got it for her ).

 

[Rick W]

Rick W for President 2024!!

Never. You’re judged by the company you keep!

 

[Rick W]

So weird continuation of my red Ranger with a vibration issue

Im still thinking you may have a splash of water in a tire. Rubber isn’t waterproof contrary to popular belief. If you have water in your tire, it will settle on the bottom. But when you start driving and the tire heats up, the water will be driven off that one spot. Hence, vibration when you start out, that goes away after you drive a little while.

Why don’t you try moving the tires around one by one and see if the vibration changes or moves with a tire. Cheap way to prove me wrong, which a lot of people want to do!!!

 

[romcjr]

Figure blue book minus a couple grand for a crate motor plus a couple grand to pay someone to swap and then take a little more off just for the PITA of it... if it runs and drives well enough to know the trans is any good and that it goes down the road ok.

The engine being bad will scare many away.

Sold it for $2500 . Don't think I could have done much better than that . Thanks for the help .

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Number one son has dibs. Daughter lives in an apartment smaller than the F250 in NYC, but her vet husband is now interested in the Missing Linc if they can afford the parking.

But as I get older and grayer, that F250 will be the last I drive. I already have the little stool on a string to get in and out (Redhead thinks I got it for her ).

Figures

That is pretty much the exact truck I have wanted for awhile and almost bought one instead of my F-150 back however many years that’s been now, but the truck needed glow plugs and tires and would have been stretching my budget so I passed on it for the F-150 thinking it would cost me less to fix. Good laugh that, it cost me a couple grand in the first year or so.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Im still thinking you may have a splash of water in a tire. Rubber isn’t waterproof contrary to popular belief. If you have water in your tire, it will settle on the bottom. But when you start driving and the tire heats up, the water will be driven off that one spot. Hence, vibration when you start out, that goes away after you drive a little while.

Why don’t you try moving the tires around one by one and see if the vibration changes or moves with a tire. Cheap way to prove me wrong, which a lot of people want to do!!!

Well, the vibration should have been worse first thing because at 19*, the water would be frozen. Locking the hubs should have zero effect on that. Had no real vibration until I rotated tires, then I found the bad wheel bearings on the right front and replaced. Vibration has randomly come and gone since

 

[G8orFord]

I finally got around to installing the replacement seat covers @PetroleumJunkie412 sent me several months ago. It was only slightly more difficult than I had expected. Not all that bad though.
Before:

After:

@PetroleumJunkie412 knows how to pack stuff.

Only problem is I left it all vacuum packed like that for several months so the cushions are a little shrunken after being like that for so long. Maybe they'll fill out and fluff back up over time. If not they're not that bad as they are.

Thanks again PJ.

 

[Saddle Tramp]

Paid it off.

 

[Rick W]

I’m thinking of starting a fan club for @ericbphoto. How many of each of these would you guys want?