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

[sgtsandman]

I agee. Smooth the surface and install the seal with a thin layer of RTV to make sure it doesn't leak. Heck, it's not really a horrible idea to install the seal wet even if you didn't gouge the sealing surface.

 

[Rick W]

I read on another forum to…

YOU DID WHAT ?!?!?

 

[Summers22]

When I first bought this lattest Ranger, I tried to ask a question on another forum and was immediately treated like a dummy, so I logged out there and came here!

 

[MK667]

YOU DID WHAT ?!?!?

Nothing yet! Is that not the thing to do? sand down that little stabby piece of metal inside the diff tube where the cv axle seal will go?

*EDIT* Ohhhh, i read on another forum. Yeah that forum sucks anyways. This one way better.

 

[Jazzer]

I suspect RickW is just injecting a little humor into the thread, you'll be fine with that method.

 

[MK667]

I suspect RickW is just injecting a little humor into the thread, you'll be fine with that method.

It was one of those went over my head moments, then like a minute later it came back and hit me. Derp.

 

[Snoranger]

When I first bought this lattest Ranger, I tried to ask a question on another forum and was immediately treated like a dummy, so I logged out there and came here!

We won’t do that to you until we actually get to know you.

 

[Summers22]

Well their answer was "want me to google that for you"......I said I already did and didn't find an answer, so I asked in the HELP section. The guy came off like a jerk, so I blocked him and then just decided to log out and never go back. Yall are awesome here btw.

 

[Rick W]

RickW is just injecting a little humor into the thread, you can go there, just don’t talk about it here!

FIFY

 

[Rick W]

I’m going absolutely stir crazy not using my right arm, and then I was going slap happy stir crazy doing real estate at the desk and other paperwork things, so I went outside in the 75° sunny weather to fix the Grinch lights* on the Road Ranger. I had two of them.

One was the number five red light on the headache rack. It’s a high/low LED, parking light on low, and intermittent brake flasher on high. The low side wouldn’t work. I also had some incredibly sloppy wiring in that area from when I slammed the thing together before the nationals a couple years ago. I got the light working, and I cleaned up the incredibly sloppy wiring so now it’s only mildly sloppy wiring.

On the roof rack, I had two really cool rectangular flood/flasher lights. They’re white floods, white flashing floods, amber floods, amber flashing floods, or alternating Amber and White, etc.. I really love them, but the way you change the pattern is by flicking the on off quickly. Well, it seemed like every third or fourth time I went to use them, they got out of sequence, they weren’t doing the same thing. I got tired of that, and then the driver side outright died, so I just swapped them out with the regular old LED floods.

I also pulled the third axle wheel on the driver side. I’m hearing some funny noises and that’s the bearing that went out a couple times and damaged the spindle. I did a really good job of cleaning up the spindle & polishing it before I went to nationals last year, and I still assumed that was the problem. Nope. So now I’m thinking something may be scraping (very lightly) on the drum brakes on the second axle that I also did in a hurry before nationals last year. I’m thinking one of the springs that holds the brake shoes back may have come loose. Project for another day, but I am taking it down to the Georgia Tech show on Saturday. 20 mile round-trip.

*Grinch Light: The Grinch, in a moment of deceit, told Cindy Lou Who, "Why, my sweet little tot, there's a light on this tree that won't light on one side," as a way to steal her Christmas tree.

 

[superj]

Took my father-in-law to the local autoparts store for some coolant his his king ranch f150. Now he is goong to list his f150 for sale and get a ranger. He said he hardly drives the f150 because its so large and hard to park in town and liked the size of my ranger and how comfy and powerful it felt.


I told him it was tuned so he would have to get a tuner if he wanted to the 2.3 to feel like mine. He said maybe he would get a ranger raptor instead, ha ha ha

 

[Summers22]

Took my father-in-law to the local autoparts store for some coolant his his king ranch f150. Now he is goong to list his f150 for sale and get a ranger. He said he hardly drives the f150 because its so large and hard to park in town and liked the size of my ranger and how comfy and powerful it felt.


I told him it was tuned so he would have to get a tuner if he wanted to the 2.3 to feel like mine. He said maybe he would get a ranger raptor instead, ha ha ha

Nice, every truck I have ever had was/is tuned except this Ranger, which I doubt tunes are available for. I have 87 performance and 87 daily/tow from 5Star for my 19 6.2 Superduty, had the Oz Omega tune on my 17 F150 5.0 and my 07 F150 I had custom PHP Gryphon tunes. They all really wake up the truck and the biggest improvement is better transmission shift tables.

 

[Jazzer]

I had excessive negative camber on my front PS wheel.

I jacked up the front with bottle jacks at the lower control arm jack points. I put a magnetic level on the center of the front frame member, the one the lower control arm bolts to, and adjusted the jacks until the front frame was level.

I removed the wheel and the upper control arm bolts/washers. I’d thought about how to achieve camber, I figured that if the frame was level, the rotors should be plumb.

I installed eccentric castor camber bolts (Moog K100348);




and adjusted them until the rotors were plumb, the eccentric washers were clocked the same, and torqued them down, then set the toe in by laser.

Later today I’ll see how it drives, I still have the DS to do. I found a frame and alignment shop with a good reputation to do the final alignment.

 

[ben_2_go]

Thinking about selling the strangler to cover the repair costs of my 2007 E150 work/camper van. The ranger needs work, but I drive it daily. I'm not sure what it's worth. I've seen rangers in worse shape than mine sell for around $3500. If I got that, it would cover the repairs and maybe a cheap upgrade or two for the van.

Hard to part with a vehicle I've been pouring love into for the past 22 years. I ended a relationship of that length 2 years ago and kept the ranger. It started out life as hers. She saw how much I liked the ranger and how much time, money, and energy I put into it to keep it running so she gave it to me when we parted ways. I gave her my share of the 2015 Kia Soul we bought together. I came out on top. 2015 models had an insane amount of problems. Oh, I have that car too. She sent it to me for repairs this past fall, and told me to keep it, she'd look for a new car.

 

[Rick W]

I’m going absolutely stir crazy not using my right arm, and then I was going slap happy stir crazy doing real estate at the desk and other paperwork things, so I went outside in the 75° sunny weather to fix the Grinch lights* on the Road Ranger. I had two of them.

One was the number five red light on the headache rack. It’s a high/low LED, parking light on low, and intermittent brake flasher on high. The low side wouldn’t work. I also had some incredibly sloppy wiring in that area from when I slammed the thing together before the nationals a couple years ago. I got the light working, and I cleaned up the incredibly sloppy wiring so now it’s only mildly sloppy wiring.

On the roof rack, I had two really cool rectangular flood/flasher lights. They’re white floods, white flashing floods, amber floods, amber flashing floods, or alternating Amber and White, etc.. I really love them, but the way you change the pattern is by flicking the on off quickly. Well, it seemed like every third or fourth time I went to use them, they got out of sequence, they weren’t doing the same thing. I got tired of that, and then the driver side outright died, so I just swapped them out with the regular old LED floods.

I also pulled the third axle wheel on the driver side. I’m hearing some funny noises and that’s the bearing that went out a couple times and damaged the spindle. I did a really good job of cleaning up the spindle & polishing it before I went to nationals last year, and I still assumed that was the problem. Nope. So now I’m thinking something may be scraping (very lightly) on the drum brakes on the second axle that I also did in a hurry before nationals last year. I’m thinking one of the springs that holds the brake shoes back may have come loose. Project for another day, but I am taking it down to the Georgia Tech show on Saturday. 20 mile round-trip.

*Grinch Light: The Grinch, in a moment of deceit, told Cindy Lou Who, "Why, my sweet little tot, there's a light on this tree that won't light on one side," as a way to steal her Christmas tree.

Hey, did you guys know that yesterday was Friday and today is Saturday? I didn’t, and I missed the Georgia Tech show. It sucks to get old…