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

[Rowdy Fitzgerald]

Beat it like it owed me money, yesterday. Got it stuck for the second time, since I installed a rear bumper and a tow hitch. That sucker has screwed me too many times! I’m gonna build a new rear bumper with a tow hitch built in. That should give me like 4-6” more ground clearance. And a better departure angle.

 

[Saddle Tramp]

Got the oil changed and tires rotated.
The inspection said I needed a break job with a price of $550! Being skeptical, I checked them myself. Yeah. I do need new pads and wait! The passenger side shock absorber is wet. How did they not notice the leak,? Gotta get some new shocks . There's also a gap at one of the linkages. (Top) I don't think that's normal.

Looks like I'm ordering some parts.

Oh, and I sanded all the rust and flaking paint off the roof and primed it and painted one coat of metallic krylon. (No. It doesn't match. Looks like a trip to get some cans of touch-up)

 

[spanky50]

right now mine is under major work the 4.0 is on the stand and the new trans i got is the wrong on. the parts store sent one that only has 2 sensor on it and mine has 3. not sure what do now they are looking but i might have to find someone to rebuild it.

 

[Saddle Tramp]

Hope they get you the right one.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Just checked and there's no fuel coming out of the vacuum line for the fuel pressure regulator so either the voltage limit for the clear flood mode isn't being met (still haven't put in a zip tie, maybe tonight) or my injectors are screwed, at over 190k I wouldn't blame the injectors for having an issue... looking into fuel injectors I found THESE on amazon, they're supposedly the right motorcraft part number but not sure without any reviews at all, cheap though...

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Should have worked on the F-150 today, it’s overdue for an oil change and it’s apparently leaking fuel somewhere. Maybe tomorrow. But I really wanted to work on the green Ranger so that’s what I did. Knocked all the rust I could off the passenger knuckle, cleaned up the hole for the axleshaft and put a new seal in, then put it all back together minus the pinch bolt for the upper control arm and the brakes. So now both sides are prepped finally and I just have to figure out where the pinch bolts wandered off to. Then I knocked out the old U-joint in the Explorer front driveshaft and prepped it for a new joint before running out of daylight.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Well, tried my hand at a video for the new style wheel seals for 98+ Rangers

 

[scotts90ranger]

Put two zip ties on the throttle cable on the '97 to see if the TPS would go up at WOT, it didn't, still at 93.3% on Torque, so I guess it'll feel different driving tomorrow... I guess I'll look at fuel injectors, not sure if I'll gamble on the $60 cheapies, $120 on rebuilt or $240ish on new... There's an injector place around here but I think the price is around $40 each to clean and fix so not really worth it unless they're fancy injectors...

 

[sgtsandman]

Well, tried my hand at a video for the new style wheel seals for 98+ Rangers

Nice job on the video other than the audio volume.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Nice job on the video other than the audio volume.

I might have to get the external microphone for them. I’m still learning about the editing software, l might be able to help it some. Can’t remember if I maxed out the cameras mic sensitivity before or after I recorded that though. New cameras and I did the editing between my phone and tablet, so everything is new to me, the last time I did any video editing and video was using my phone to record or an old digital camera and did the editing on my desktop. I have three of the Drift Ghost XL cams now and I’m still figuring them out.

Wanted to do the video even if I didn’t have the bugs worked out because I’m not sure there’s really any information out on the new wheel seal design (I’m not even sure when it changed because I’ve done the old style before a couple times and it matches the tech archives). I sure didn’t know what I was doing other than a search indicated it was the correct part even though entirely different from what I was used to. Figured it out on the drivers side, then shot the video on the passenger side so it looked like I knew what I was doing, lol.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Did some work on the green Ranger, didn’t get real far, but the front driveshaft is in now, pinch bolts are in the upper ball joints on both sides since I didn’t know where I left the bolts when I did the wheel seals. Most of the oil is in (I’m waiting until I get the power steering lines worked out before putting the new filter on) and a couple little things. Oh, and the a/c pump appears to be seized, unfortunately.

 

[pjtoledo]

Well, tried my hand at a video for the new style wheel seals for 98+ Rangers

did you just put a PVH vacuum seal on a live hub CV?

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

did you just put a PVH vacuum seal on a live hub CV?

No idea, I didn’t even think about that, I searched for a 2000 Ranger which would (should) be live axle. Would there be a problem with what I did if so? I even searched on Tasca and it came back with the same part #, so I figured it had to be a new design or something…

 

[Lefty]

I finished the woodwork inside my pickup. The bed floor had rust issues when I first got it. I removed it and media blasted the bottom and repainted it. Rather than welding repair panels in the weak spots, I put in an oak floor and tool box. Today I finally finished it with latticed sides.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Well, sun came out for a bit this afternoon so I went to see if I could get anything done to the green Ranger. Turns out there was some rust and corrosion holding it from moving, so I popped the pulley and clutch apart and cleaned it up. Then I pulled out the bolts that I had cleaned up and by golly, three of the four are not long enough and none of them thread in. I was certain that’s what they came off of. Oh well, I’ll just add some new bolts to my hardware order I’m building again. If I have the correct bolts, I don’t know where they would be at this point.