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Rangerman92

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Project orange crush

This is my 1994 Ranger 4.0 V6 that has been under construction for about the past two months. It's been changed to look as close to a splash model as possible, minus the stepside bed. Everything is monochromatic. The body panels were all removed for painting and body work. The interior was removed to be cleaned and the headliner needed to be recovered.


How it looked when we purchased it in may.


Sometime over the summer I took my dad's 33's off of his jeep just to see how it would look. They were no where near close to fitting.





Then we started by dissassembling the front end and worked our way back doing the body work and painting piece by piece.




Keep in mind this was all painted on the side of our house, with the exception of the doors. This took a lot of patience for the correct days with good weather and mininal wind and bugs .







Putting back together the front end. New windshield and rear slider glass. We replaced the rear pop out glasses with fixed-stationary privacy glass.



Before we painted body, we had installed a 3 inch body lift. Now that it's been painted, we installed a 4 inch suspension lift with skyjacker shocks.
An additional 2 inches was added using add-a-leaf in the rear and front coil spacers. We also bought new stainless steal brake lines for all four wheels.






Under the hood . Will eventually add a cold air intake.


The bed before the spray in bedliner.



That's it and more to come !

I have 10X15 rims that will have 33X1250X15 BF Mud Terrains or Goodyear Mud Terrains installed within the next few weeks. I'll be sure to keep you guys updated with it all.
 
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mc_muench

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Will eventually add a cold air intake.
You already have one, ford put one on from factory, not the best looking one but it functions well...

Love the color by the way, it pretty much screams at our eyeballs when you look at it.
 

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It's like a Parnelli Jones orange, I like it:icon_thumby:
 

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nice choice on the color. the whole truck looks great, bud! :icon_thumby:
 

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nice work! keep us updated!
 

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Very nice! Like "the dude" said You've already got a CAI. Save the money and use it for other things on that good looking truck
 

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very sweet build man nice work an lots of time keep it up man
 

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Broke the record at my work today for most tips in a day and hoping to break the weekend record tomorrow, that means new tires in the next week ! Pictures soon !

After that, I'm going to use the rest of my money to have my flowmasters mounted with dual exhaust tips. Then tint the two front windows and much more. Have big plans for the truck .

Will post pictures of the spray in bedliner tomorrow, it came out looking great !
 

Rangerman92

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After the bed was finished and put on.





Spray in bed liner and a view of the smoked out tail lights.



If you like my truck, you should check out my dads.

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Rangerman92

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Tires came in today, got them mounted and balanced. Will take pictures tomorrow and post !
 

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sick looking truck, your pops is very talented. i cannot fathom a 16 year old kid doing this caliber of work. you are very lucky to have him around, do everything he says and you will learn alot. love the color you guys must be Tennessee Vols fans. Go Vols!!!!
 

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good progress! cant wait to see what tire/rim ur gonna use
 

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what kind of a coil spacer did u use?
 

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I bought a kit online for the coil spacers and add-a-leaf.

Have pictures with the tires mounted, will post later !
 

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Wheels and tires finally mounted !





Next on the list is getting my exhaust done, flowmaster 40 series with straight pipes out the back. Then getting the remaining two windows tinted.
 

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