the "green machine" '93 4.0 4x4

[racsan]

....step bars are now off....

 

[racsan]

working out at the farm, pulling a wagonload of brush back through a field to drop off at the edge of the treeline. have had the back end packed full of firewood a couple of times now.

 

[racsan]

 

[racsan]

the latest pic, 8/29. out behind the barn, im thinking of painting the rims on this, love the look, but unless your up close, they just look like black rims , nothing special. not sure if i want silver, grey or john deere yellow, maybe even a gold since the green on my truck isnt a bright green like john deere uses, i just painted my winter wheels, probly wont put them on until late october, went with the standard silver/clearcoat on them-the centers are the same green as the truck.

 

[racsan]

1/2 mile from the house, scouting out fallen trees for a later firewood run, where im parked is usually a wet area, been kind of dry this year.

 

[racsan]

Whats new? Side boards!

Back glass in my cap broke this weekend, been a pain sometimes having the cap on, so i decided its time for stake sides!, quick and easy and i can fit more wood than with the ranger bed alone....

 

[MrTachyon]

Where did you get that push bar? It looks really nice.

 

[racsan]

It's a warn trans4mer bar, got it through a advance auto auto parts store about 12 years ago. Truck is now gone but I did keep the grille guard. I'll have to post my final pictures of "the green machine". I really loved that truck, but it was time for it to go, frame was twisted about 5 years ago teaching my daughter how to drive a manual transmission. Then a month ago I discoverd a bad rust through the passenger side frame behind the coil support tower. Was going to go ahead and drive it one last winter but litterly 2 days later the seal went out of the power steering box. Got $800 out of it. Hoping to get another ranger, seem to be tough to find, the good ones are pricey and the ones I find that I can afford are rust buckets. I'll have another someday, hopefully another 4X supercab manual trans. I did keep about all of my add ons, weather i'll be able to use them on a newer ranger is hard to tell.

 

[racsan]

The rust hole, passenger side, just to the rear of the coil support.

 

[racsan]

... Not to long after i brought it home, 2003, 10 years old, 60,000 miles




And the "final" pic, 12 years later, 182,700 miles.

 

[racsan]

Short video clip of it leaving my driveway, at least it left under its own power, motor was still good, still could get nearly 20 mpg on the highway, a/c still worked. Time to find "the next" one.