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

[lil_Blue_Ford]

did you check the rotor for runout?
take a real good look at the tire for run out?

Guess I need to take a closer look, but everything looked ok when I had it apart

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

How bout a tread coming loose, delaminating? How old are the tires? Sometimes when the tread is coming loose it’ll vibrate at different speeds and do all kinds of wacko things. That gets back to swapping the tires with the spare one by one and seeing if it goes away.

Or you could do what I’m gonna do with the number for Ranger I bought for parts. Drain all the fluids and put it in an interesting place in your yard, filled back up with Pete Moss and topsoil and plant spring flowers in it

Tires looked ok from the casual look they got when I rotated them. Not to say I didn’t miss something. Wondering if maybe it’s out of balance though, noticed it has two huge wheel weights on the outside. Forget offhand how old the tires are, but I believe they are not all that old, they were virtually brand new Kumho mudders when I got the truck.

Definitely dont need any more yard ornaments, need to get a bunch of the ones I have squared away

 

[airbourneranger]

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Love you too!

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Is that Bill Clinton???

 

[Curious Hound]

Changed oil in the engine and both diff's.

 

[Snoranger]

I looked at it and said “nope, not today”... now I’m at work trying to find the intermittent short in this area:

Edit:
Found it.
If you were to zoom in here:

Then pull the harness away from the bracket, shine a flashlight at the right angle, and look with a mirror, you can see this little spec of green wire...

I should have taken the day off and worked on my Ranger.

 

[Curious Hound]

I looked at it and said “nope, not today”... now I’m at work trying to find the intermittent short in this area:

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Good luck

 

[Snoranger]

Good luck

See my edit.

 

[Curious Hound]

See my edit.

At least you found it. Go home. Have a beer. Relax. Then fix it tomorrow.

I spent 36 hours trying to fix a machine at work this past weekend. Didn't have the fuses in stock. Spare VFD (fancy electrical doohickey that controls an electric motor) was ordered without the proprietary firmware installed and I didn't have the software on my laptop to transfer it from the old VFD. The whole adventure was horrible. Will find out tomorrow if they got a VFD specialist in to fix it yet. We just didn't have the tools or parts. Otherwise, we're going to upgrade the machine with newer VFD's because the old ones are obsolete. Meanwhile, running the system on a "rigged" backup plan.

 

[Snoranger]

At least you found it. Go home. Have a beer. Relax. Then fix it tomorrow.

I work until midnight... and they need the truck for a paving job in the morning. (It’s an International 7600 tri-axle dump truck.) I’ve got about 6 hours to fix 1 wire.

 

[Curious Hound]

I work until midnight... and they need the truck for a paving job in the morning. (It’s an International 7600 tri-axle dump truck.) I’ve got about 6 hours to fix 1 wire.

Ugh. Thought it was an international due to that shade of yellow paint.

 

[Jazzer]

Liquid electrical “tape” is your friend.......

-Jazzer

 

[Snoranger]

Liquid electrical “tape” is your friend.......

-Jazzer

The “green wire” term means the copper already started corroding. These trucks get used for paving in the summer and salting/plowing in the winter. The salt destroys everything in its path. If I don’t cut that section out and replace it, it won’t make it 6 months before I’m in here again...
Fix it right, fix it once.

 

[Jazzer]

Sorry, didn’t see that.

-Jazzer

 

[mtnrgr]

Drove my ranger today after 2 weeks, and had discount tire put on new tires.

 

[Rick W]

Did I ever mention I LOVE Craigslist!!

I scored nine 12’ 1x1x1/16” aluminum angle for $75. I think it’s the last thing I need for all my light bars and racks and what not for the two rangers.

Now all I need is for Kirk to transport all the lawyers and judges into a parallel universe where they can suffer like they were in hell for eternity, so I have some time to tinker!