83tonka4by4
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- Vehicle Year
- 1983
- Make / Model
- Ford
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- Manual
traded my 95 tbird for this ranger couple weeks ago its an 83 longbed 4x4 one of the owners before me has done a 6 cyl swap to it the intake manifold says its a 2.8 but in good time i am gonna make it a 302 carbed
but to all please keep in mind im 19 yrs old have not been thru any schooling yet but in my opinion best way to learn is to dig in and **** shit up im going to wyotech in june and my first steps to this truck are just to get it running good where i can relax and drive to school not worry about it breakin down. so the work i do may not be the best but im tryin so be easy lol
it is lifted already but the lift job is just a crappy home slap together contraption so soon i will be doing real lift kits on it body and suspension i will get pix of that up so yall can laugh at it like me and everyone else who has seen it this lift will make you to a one of these WTF!!!
electrical in the truck was just hands down no doubt about it FUGLY!!! so at the moment and past 3 days now i been gutting the full interior and fixing that tryin to go for a clean look least amount of wire as possible and delete ac
gonna swap out the dash to a 91 mustang dash im sure u guys will hate on that but i like way different and i like that dash better also im taking out the bench and putting in black mustang bucket seats and in the middle gonna put a sub for an arm rest type deal. got a cb thats going in it with all the wiring
then onto a carb rebuild the carb run a tune up get rid of the dumb exhaust look into why it breaks up bad at 3 grand little work like that
next step i will be fixin up the cab corners and floors i hope or at least just the floor a bit until i go to school.
once i consider it reliable i will then start doing some small appearance mods like the roll bar, front bar, lookin to change the steps on it cuz one they hooked em up to the floor and 2 i want the full bars. and i can tell the front been hit on the driver side so i am gonna look into fixin that a bit
so thats kinda just a few places im goin with this thing so be on the look out by tonite im hoping to at least have all the wires ran and then i will be getting pix up for ya guys before and after shots and just the all the set ups it came with if you are interested rite on if you have any advise tips or thoughts my ears are open let me hear it
thanx for lookin
but to all please keep in mind im 19 yrs old have not been thru any schooling yet but in my opinion best way to learn is to dig in and **** shit up im going to wyotech in june and my first steps to this truck are just to get it running good where i can relax and drive to school not worry about it breakin down. so the work i do may not be the best but im tryin so be easy lol
it is lifted already but the lift job is just a crappy home slap together contraption so soon i will be doing real lift kits on it body and suspension i will get pix of that up so yall can laugh at it like me and everyone else who has seen it this lift will make you to a one of these WTF!!!
electrical in the truck was just hands down no doubt about it FUGLY!!! so at the moment and past 3 days now i been gutting the full interior and fixing that tryin to go for a clean look least amount of wire as possible and delete ac
gonna swap out the dash to a 91 mustang dash im sure u guys will hate on that but i like way different and i like that dash better also im taking out the bench and putting in black mustang bucket seats and in the middle gonna put a sub for an arm rest type deal. got a cb thats going in it with all the wiring
then onto a carb rebuild the carb run a tune up get rid of the dumb exhaust look into why it breaks up bad at 3 grand little work like that
next step i will be fixin up the cab corners and floors i hope or at least just the floor a bit until i go to school.
once i consider it reliable i will then start doing some small appearance mods like the roll bar, front bar, lookin to change the steps on it cuz one they hooked em up to the floor and 2 i want the full bars. and i can tell the front been hit on the driver side so i am gonna look into fixin that a bit
so thats kinda just a few places im goin with this thing so be on the look out by tonite im hoping to at least have all the wires ran and then i will be getting pix up for ya guys before and after shots and just the all the set ups it came with if you are interested rite on if you have any advise tips or thoughts my ears are open let me hear it
thanx for lookin