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

[dvdswan]

Making it jealous? A friend is buying another Jeep and I agreed to help him get it home. So I'll be driving this 2019 or 2020 Rubicon for a little while this morning. He's hopelessly hooked on Jeeps.

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That is an ugly dash IMO.

 

[Rick W]

That dash looks more complex than a jet plane, looks like the big BMW dashes back in the 90s with a hundred buttons and controls. So here’s the question/observation: you want the jeep to be tough and climb the mountains, charge through nature, but you also want to be James Bond with the Lotus Elise that also goes underwater or flies. Like Thunderball, he arrives underwater in a wetsuit, and strips it off and he’s in a tux with a summer evening jacket. Unbelievable, living a fantasy, confused & nothing really works for what you want. My Lincoln, luxury car. My trucks, workhorses. Reality, focus.

 

[Dirtman]

That dash looks more complex than a jet plane, looks like the big BMW dashes back in the 90s with a hundred buttons and controls. So here’s the question/observation: you want the jeep to be tough and climb the mountains, charge through nature, but you also want to be James Bond with the Lotus Elise that also goes underwater or flies. Like Thunderball, he arrives underwater in a wetsuit, and strips it off and he’s in a tux with a summer evening jacket. Unbelievable, living a fantasy, confused & nothing really works for what you want. My Lincoln, luxury car. My trucks, workhorses. Reality, focus.

You're a weird dude.

 

[Rick W]

Gosh, you’re right! I’m complaining about the dichotomy of this jeep and it’s dash at the same time I’m putting a Lincoln front end in my 87 4WD Rick-storation! I complain about it and now I are one!!!

 

[ericbphoto]

It is a busy dash. The red seems to be color matched to the exterior. Controls? Wow. Since they want the doors easily removable, window controls are on the center console. I think mirror controls were on the side of the dash. Don't really remember even though I adjusted them. I never did find volume for the stereo. I kept looking for it on the screen, thinking the two knows on the dash were temperature controls for driver side or passenger side. But, he later showed me that the left one (blocked from my view by the steering wheel) was volume. Plus there are hidden buttons on the back side of the steering wheel for volume, channel, answering phone, etc. Yeah. It's "gadgets to the max". The switch for ride control selection is on the A-pillar. And it has that stupid auto start/stop for the engine. But I think he told me that is defeated when he disconnects the antisway bars and maybe by pushing a button.

Wow.

 

[sheep herder]

Gotta buy a 2nd Jeep hoping to at least have 1 running at a time?

 

[snoranger]

You're a weird dude.

You’d be the expert on that.

 

[Dirtman]

Gotta buy a 2nd Jeep hoping to at least have 1 running at a time?

My buddy has 3, none of them work. Statistically speaking I don't think the amount of jeeps you own increases your chances of having a functional vehicle...

 

[Rick W]

Jeep should be like a dune buggy: key, on/off lights, radio, horn.

 

[Rick W]

But if different things are bad on the different Jeeps, in reality you could drive.

Ok, you could drive in a Star Trek different parallel dimension reality.

 

[MikeG]

Or lift an old AMC Gremlin.....
And drive it wearing a tux!!!

 

[Trump8MyKids]

I was thinking your grandmother's ford escort with the roof cut off and lifted 6-8 feet in the air on monster truck tires with a big block chugging away. Also wearing a tux but with one hand on the wheel and the other perfectly balancing a beer. now THAT'S American.

 

[mtnrgr]

Drove my ranger today for the first time in 5 weeks since my shoulder surgery. With it being st patrick's day, and my truck is cayman green..good day to drive it. Felt good to be behind the wheel again.

 

[Rick W]

I worked on the headlight buckets for the quad headlights, little to show, but I think I figured it out.

On the tail, I had to shave the depth of the Lincoln reflector panel I’m rigging. I wasn’t sure they’d survive going through a planer, so I’m using my table (6x48?) belt sander. Slow go, but they’re coming out good. Of course then I dropped one and chipped a corner, but fortunately had enough from what I cut off to patch it. It will barely be seen when I shave them to the right thickness. Those lenses are getting as rare as hen’s teeth, and pricey. I try to grab spares for the junk pile when I can.

That’s great grand daddy’s vice, btw.

& I finally made some pony saw horses (24” high) to start working on the extra beds for the trailers. I dropped that too, but a little more forgiving. Zero rust on both the 6ft extras. If that little bit of rust I fixed on The Missing Linc starts to come though, I’ll just swap the bed. They’ll be painted identical.

And I’ve been working on the cab over lights and code 3 light bar. Again, nothing to show, but think I figured that out, too.

 

[2drxploder]

Towed it to and from the exhaust shop, it sounds so gooooood now,, stopped by parents on way home to show it to dad. Upon getting it home I noticed the radiator is leaking. Also when I started it at home to let gf hear it, the wipers started going full speed and windshield squirter continously runs. Any thoughts?