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

[Blmpkn]

Brought the caprice over to my mothers. Was hoping to get both the wagon and the squarebody moved today but between the awful snowy landscape and other setbacks it took us 7 hours just to move this lol.

Moving shit isn't much fun when it's cold enough to freeze your breath to your face.

Then you go inside or get back in the truck, your breath melts, and your now wet with breath. Ugh. Cmon april!

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[Uncle Gump]

So… is there a pinion brake for the 8.8 and is that legal to use as a parking brake on a road driven vehicle? Lol

I've only dealt with these brake issues in Michigan... per form TR-54. I haven't looked at it in a few years so it may have changed. But it use to state that that a parking brake had to be adequate enough to both stop and hold the vehicle. However is also said road legal vehicles had to have two separate forms of braking... I always thought it referred to hydraulic service brakes and cable operated park brake. We did get our vehicles through inspection with a simple line lock (park-loc) installed in the rear brake line.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

This ⬆...

I’d adapt an E450 trans outputshaft brake to the rear of the transfer case WAY before I’d put one on the rear axle.

Didn’t realize this could be an option too…

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I've only dealt with these brake issues in Michigan... per form TR-54. I haven't looked at it in a few years so it may have changed. But it use to state that that a parking brake had to be adequate enough to both stop and hold the vehicle. However is also said road legal vehicles had to have two separate forms of braking... I always thought it referred to hydraulic service brakes and cable operated park brake. We did get our vehicles through inspection with a simple line lock (park-loc) installed in the rear brake line.

Well that’s a thought…

my biggest thing with thinking about doing something different for a parking brake is I’m flat out tired of dealing with emergency brake cables in the rusty steel buckle of the rust belt. Doesn’t seem to matter what brand or how often you use it, seems like I’m replacing cables every other year or so. With multiple vehicles that means at least one cable a year and I’m tired of it. A line lock or trans brake that you could do a lever operated or something would beat cables at $20 something each if it could be done without breaking the bank. Or at least that’s the crazy thoughts been running around my head

 

[superj]

Drove it around after selling our 99 cherokee

 

[Ramcharger90]

So… is there a pinion brake for the 8.8 and is that legal to use as a parking brake on a road driven vehicle? Lol

I believe that is how the Hino box trucks work that have hydraulic brakes.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Took the '90 to an offroad event yesterday, "Mountain Top Mud Bogs" as there's likely pictures floating around the interwebs... was a good day, Ranger did fine, I kept it to the limits I knew it would do knowing where my air intake is and all and not wanting to air the tires all the way down... My buddy swamped his mud truck, couldn't get it running, oil was fine but the starter was swamped and not having it...

On the parking brake thing, I think I have them figured out now, I was mostly just talking crap , it's just not optimal... I think I have it set good now, I just never remember to set it... it's hard to get to the pedal without the door open...

 

[superj]

Put a spare tool box on the edge. Small bed makes boxes expensive so I used an old one from my frontier I used to have

 

[scotts90ranger]

Spent over an hour I'm pretty sure hosing off the '90 from yesterdays adventures... when I got to the wash station after helping/watching my buddies load up their trailers (my camper is still on the F350 or I would have trailered...) it had JUST ran out of gas, but with the dewpoint last night all the dry mud had rehydrated enough to come off easier...

 

[racsan]

Fired up the ranger today & took it out by the field for a couple of pictures in the snow. Walked right through it all with the snow tires & 6 40# bags of softener salt in the back.

 

[scotts90ranger]

moved like 1/8 cord or less of fire wood from the shed to the front porch with the '97... the wife likes using the "gorilla cart" wagon thing which is fine but it takes 3 trips, I wanted a stereo and to only take one trip, both have their advantages... the ground is less liquid than it has been so I went my direction

 

[Blmpkn]

Hauled more vehicles the other day. Such a pain in the ass when they can't move by themselves and everything is a sheet of ice lol.

When I had my k10 on the trailer it squatted the truck bigtime. 14' equipment trailer thats somewhere between 2400-2750 lbs, and the k10 probably weighs 4500 at least with all the snow/ice in the bed. I'm sure I was right at max capacity if not slightly over.

With the truck squatted so much the dash was telling me "service advancetrac" and both the stability control and abs were non functioning. Something to keep in mind. If my truck wasn't leveled I'm sure it wouldn't of been squatted to the point where it's sensors thought it was broken.

 

[Roert42]

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Hauled more vehicles the other day. Such a pain in the ass when they can't move by themselves and everything is a sheet of ice lol.

When I had my k10 on the trailer it squatted the truck bigtime. 14' equipment trailer thats somewhere between 2400-2750 lbs, and the k10 probably weighs 4500 at least with all the snow/ice in the bed. I'm sure I was right at max capacity if not slightly over.

With the truck squatted so much the dash was telling me "service advancetrac" and both the stability control and abs were non functioning. Something to keep in mind. If my truck wasn't leveled I'm sure it wouldn't of been squatted to the point where it's sensors thought it was broken.

My favorite game. Drag this broken truck onto that trailer with a come a long.

 

[sgtsandman]

My favorite game. Drag this broken truck onto that trailer with a come a long.

Done the come along bit and the high lift jack drag as well. Tons of fun had by none.

 

[Blmpkn]

1 inch at a time is an awful way to load vehicles. If I ever get my own car trailer it's definitely getting a winch.