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Re did all my brake lines today and here’s where I’m at. New hardline from adjustable proportional valve to rear. New front hardline from master to T fitting splitting directly to front tires. Removed the factory proportional/shuttle valve. Test drive it felt a lot better. Didn’t feel like I...

Yeah, all new lines apart from the hard line between the factory prop valve and the frame end of the upper link. The stainless braided lines on either end of the upper link and the rubber lines at the calipers are the only soft lines in the system. I will add too that with the last axle I had in...

The plot is thickening fellas. I pulled the factory prop valve out and disassembled it. Definitely no residual check valve in there, just the shuttle valve separating the front circuit from the rear. Proceeded to pull the the seat out of the port on the MC and also no check valve there either...

The only 2 places a residual valve can be is in the factory proportioning valve or MC. I’m gonna pull the prop valve out and run some new lines and clean things up a little. I’ll dissect the prop valve and see if it has the residual valve in it. Otherwise it seems it was common practice across...

I’ll do some more reading and see if I can find more sources on an internal valve. Pentode, if I can confirm it’s the master maybe I’ll dissect mine and report back. FlOoReD, there is an H junction block on the frame rail but (and I could be wrong) I’m pretty sure that is just to illuminate a...

Basically anything with the plastic reservoir? I’ll start doing some digging and comparing.

That’s what I’m working with is the old all metal cast unit. There definitely isn’t any valves external but I was doing some reading and several different forums ford based and otherwise had made mention of internal valves.

I need some help with a rear disc conversion I did on my truck. Truck is an 85 using factory manual master cylinder, wilwood proportioning valve mounted next to the master cylinder, new hardline from master cylinder to rear to new soft line to a ruffstuff disc conversion caliper. The rear brakes...

I have a buddy with a turbo setup he’ll let go for cheap so I’d really just need the manifold to bolt it on which I believe the 2.3 and 2.5 are the same there. I just don’t want to have to go down the tuning/ecu road as that’s out of my wheel house. But if the stock eec will reliably compensate...

I’m looking into possibly boosting the 2.5l I have in my 85 ranger. I’ve never boosted anything before so I’m looking to have a couple questions answered before I start to open a can of worms I don’t want to. The goal here is to go with a low boost setup (~5psi) to get those few extra ponies I...

Hey guys and gals, I just picked up a 99 ranger with the 2.5l and m5r1 trans and I’m pulling the motor and trans to put in my 87 project truck. I want to keep all of the factory fuel injection/ignition etc but I need some help with figuring out what parts of the cab/chassis wiring I need. As...

Hey guys, so in the next couple of months I’m gonna be in the market for a mid 90’s ish f150 but I’m not the most proficient on them. I’m gonna be looking for one to use as a daily and a tow pig. It won’t get a lot of miles annually, probably around the 8-10k mark. When I tow with it I plan on...

I have an 85 2.3 that I rebuilt and converted to a Holley carb and among a bunch of the cork gaskets leaking I also have a vent tube coming off the oil fill cap that doesn’t have anywhere to route to do it just vents to atmosphere and adds to the leaking oil under the hood. I have a pcv hose...

So I have been having the worst time when it comes to the alternator on my 85 2.3. In the 5 years that I've owned my truck (2 of which it was under construction and pushed off to the side) I have been through like 6 or 7 alternators that have all failed in 1 way only. The style of mount I...

My friend is going to wire in some led pod lights on his truck and doesn't know how to do the wiring so I drew up a diagram that I think is correct but I'm not an electrical guy myself so I just want to verify. What he wants to do is replace the reverse lights with with led pods so that they...

Hey guys and gals. I'm thinking about changing the cam in my 2.3 because I went with a comp cams magnum 280h and it isn't a good fit for a daily driver vehicle (doesn't much like anything under 3k rpms). I think I'm going to change it out for the comp cams high energy 260h which is more of a...

Hey guys. I just re did all the tierods on my 85 prerunner with a manual steering box and because of the way I made my tierod adjusters and difference in length of the new tierods I cannot line up the steering wheel to be centered. Is it possible to pull the steering shaft off the gearbox input...

A while back I gutted my entire truck and was going to dedicate it to a off road only vehicle. Well now I have decided to make it streetable again and I am just finishing up wiring up all the exterior lights headlights, turn signals etc. I'm all done except for the brake lights. I can't figure...

So I have a chewed up aux shaft gear and dizzy gear on my truck and I really don't want to spend the money on a billet esslinger replacement shaft. Last time I was out at the junkyard they had several 2.3's laying around. Are all aux shafts the same throughout the years/models? Can I just grab...

Hey guys, I'm looking for some solid info for a beam conversion on my expo. Basically I'm heavily tossing around the idea of getting rid of my ranger prerunner and building my expo. But before I commit to anything I need some solid info regarding beam and crossmember differences between a 2wd...