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

[Curious Hound]

nice barn, but still not big enough

It's a lot bigger than what I have.

 

[Roert42]

No matter how much bigger a building you have, you will never have more room, just more junk.

 

[Curious Hound]

Put the old bumper back on and made brackets to temporarily mount the lights I boought for the new bed. Now I just need a turn signal relay compatible with LEDS and It's ready to be driven in winter weather this weekend.

 

[racsan]

Id be careful if your going to go out with no weight back there if the weather gets bad. Ive drove with no bed at all before. The small gravels the tires wil throw at the back of the cab can take you by suprize.

 

[sgtsandman]

Plan on any ballast for the rear end so it is less squirrelly?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

nice barn, but still not big enough

I can get all five tractors and the camper inside, I'm happy.

One tractor has chains on it (in the garage so it doesn't mess up my pretty cement in the barn), and the other doesn't run and has a flat rear tire so for the moment it sleeps outside.

 

[Curious Hound]

Id be careful if your going to go out with no weight back there if the weather gets bad. Ive drove with no bed at all before. The small gravels the tires wil throw at the back of the cab can take you by suprize.

Great time to do donuts?

Seriously, thanks for the warning and I already had that in mind. Not only is the back really light, but I have a lunchbox locker back there, too. Almost thought about removing the rear drive shaft and just use front wheel drive for safety. That's too much trouble for just a day or two of bad weather driving. My route to work is all back roads.

 

[Snoranger]

Great time to do donuts?

Seriously, thanks for the warning and I already had that in mind. Not only is the back really light, but I have a lunchbox locker back there, too. Almost thought about removing the rear drive shaft and just use front wheel drive for safety. That's too much trouble for just a day or two of bad weather driving. My route to work is all back roads.

You also run the risk of rocks breaking the back window.

 

[bobbywalter]

Great time to do donuts?

Seriously, thanks for the warning and I already had that in mind. Not only is the back really light, but I have a lunchbox locker back there, too. Almost thought about removing the rear drive shaft and just use front wheel drive for safety. That's too much trouble for just a day or two of bad weather driving. My route to work is all back roads.

It will be fine

I would board over the tires though

 

[scotts90ranger]

Last night I did a long overdue oil change on the '97, I have no idea how many miles it's been but probably 5k...

I also took a 2x6 scrap on edge on the floor jack under the drivers door to pry it up to get the body lines matching and the door closing better, worked smashingly... adjusted the door pin back up where it should be and the door closes much nicer now with the body line almost lined up. I don't know what they did to that thing in the ditch but it screwed with the door hinge alignment, this was the only way I could see to fix it easy...

 

[bobbywalter]

Three lasers....


I was able to see about half of a degree on my alternator....one 1.3 mm washer in the right pin ....


So far....that squeaking mouse living in my f.e.a.d packed up and left.

Hope it stays gone.

 

[broncc]

IT RUNS! IT RUNS! IT RUNS! The bronco 4.0 swap finally lives! I'm nowhere near done with this car but the biggest hurdle is over. I just need to get the nice to haves installed.

 

[scotts90ranger]

After commuting in the '97 today after the door adjustment from Saturday, the door shuts fantabulously! It's been finicky since I put the door on and now it opens and closes like a Ford door... instead of like a Chevy door like it did...

 

[pjtoledo]

'twas tinkering with a 2004 front diff that's dismembered, oops, I mean disassembled. figured it's about time to put it back together.
while removing the inner pinion bearing race the oil baffle gets trashed and I haven't found the exact replacement for it yet.
so I modified a different baffle to fit.
had to enlarge the center and put a bent lip on the outside. the hole it goes into doesn't have a perfectly square edge, causes the baffle to stand off the bottom a bit.
I know the outer race will mostly smash it down, but that might effect the preload torque. plus the old baffle had a perfectly formed lip.
oh, the baffle gets dropped into a hole then the wide part of the inner race is pushed down on top of it.
used my mini lathe to cut the inner hole, then clamped the baffle between the race and a large socket which left the outer
edge exposed, then some intricate hammer bashing to form the lip over the race.

and that's what an 'ol retired guy does for fun.

how's it look? I made 2 of 'em.

damn, just noticed I made it up-side-down

 

[Curious Hound]

Looks a lot like a reducing washer for electrical conduit. They come in a bunch of different sizes.