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

[lil_Blue_Ford]

So yesterday (Saturday) I noticed the rear in the green Ranger suddenly felt a little squishy. Took a look under there earlier today and see that my leaf springs are apparently not up to the task because I’m sitting like maybe an inch and a half off the bump stops. I also notice that the bushings in my shackles are splitting apart already. Joy.

 

[JoshT]

Meant to post this here, not the other thread.

Short block is assembled. Paint not yet applied, weather hasn't been right. Maybe one afternoon this week.

Truck was pulled back in and disassembly started. Depending on how doctor appointment goes wednesday, hopefully I'll have the engine out by the weekend.

 

[rumblecloud]

looks beautiful and peaceful.

 

[snoranger]

I tried to find the speed limiter and failed. I was running low on real estate at 106 MPH and had to let up because I was coming up on another car. I try not to do stupid things with other cars around.

 

[Clint's 3.0 ranger]

Drove to the lake this evening for some night air, Has been miserable heat here.

Another cayman green ranger on here. What are the specs on your truck?

 

[scotts90ranger]

Drove home from work as fast as possible in the '97... depending on what you believe it's around 104F here right now and no A/C (only working A/C we have in a rig is the wifes Camry) and some people had the gall to drive like 45 on the last 5 miles where almost everyone does 58-62, I needed the airflow and was getting tired of braking for no good reason...

 

[Rick W]

Drove home from work as fast as possible in the '97... depending on what you believe it's around 104F here right now and no A/C (only working A/C we have in a rig is the wifes Camry) and some people had the gall to drive like 45 on the last 5 miles where almost everyone does 58-62, I needed the airflow and was getting tired of braking for no good reason...

I miss the little smokers’ vent windows all vehicles used to have, the front part of the side window that you could fold out more than 90° to direct all the air into the interior.

For anybody who is really old, I also miss the old fashion vents that you would open pulling a knob linkage down by the emergency brake. Didn’t have the vents and baffles and duct switching vacuum things. Just a blast of air down by your crotch.

And I’m waiting for the first really old guy to say the emergency brake wasn’t down on the bottom left. Back then it was a handle on the right hand side that you pulled back by the ashtray. I’m thinking that’s what our 1960 Chinese eye Comet had.

 

[sgtsandman]

I miss the little smokers’ vent windows all vehicles used to have, the front part of the side window that you could fold out more than 90° to direct all the air into the interior.

For anybody who is really old, I also miss the old fashion vents that you would open pulling a knob linkage down by the emergency brake. Didn’t have the vents and baffles and duct switching vacuum things. Just a blast of air down by your crotch.

And I’m waiting for the first really old guy to say the emergency brake wasn’t down on the bottom left. Back then it was a handle on the right hand side that you pulled back by the ashtray. I’m thinking that’s what our 1960 Chinese eye Comet had.

I miss both of those vents as well as the one below the steering column that kept the crotch area cool.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I miss the little smokers’ vent windows all vehicles used to have, the front part of the side window that you could fold out more than 90° to direct all the air into the interior.

For anybody who is really old, I also miss the old fashion vents that you would open pulling a knob linkage down by the emergency brake. Didn’t have the vents and baffles and duct switching vacuum things. Just a blast of air down by your crotch.

And I’m waiting for the first really old guy to say the emergency brake wasn’t down on the bottom left. Back then it was a handle on the right hand side that you pulled back by the ashtray. I’m thinking that’s what our 1960 Chinese eye Comet had.

I drove a 1954 Chevy one ton for quite a few years as my work truck. It had been updated with a built 283. I remember those vents, as well as the one in front of the windshield that popped up.

 

[Rick W]

Who’s stupid idea was it to change the washer nozzles?!?!!

@!”#%¥<€! Ford Engineers!!!!!

First, the “universal” nozzles I got on eBay? Advertised absolutely correctly. They only fit something else in a different universe.

I pulled the one in front of the driver, and chased down the hose because it wasn’t long enough, and it was a different diameter. It goes straight down into the engine compartment, makes a right turn towards the passenger size, reduces in diameter through a fitting.

The new nozzle was a smaller diameter. The only connector I had to the smaller hose on the passenger side was a T. So I used a vacuum cap on one side, and ran the smaller hose up through the top and put the new nozzle on. A little pain in the neck, but not too bad.

I pulled out the passenger side, and the nozzle is completely different. It connects at a right angle because there was something about an inch and a half down that blocks using anything longer. Long story short, I tried a half a dozen things, and nothing worked. I could write a page on the attempts. I took the old nozzle, and carefully wire brushed off all the old paint, heated up one of my harbor freight pics, and cleaned out the nozzle, and put it back. That was probably an hour after I started that side.

With Lincoln in the driver seat, I turned the key to accessory, and I pushed the washer nozzle. Passenger side was near perfect.

The three nozzles on the new unit on the driver side sprayed right into the molding at the bottom of the windshield. I had to sharpen up the point on a pic to stick it in the nozzle holes to try to angle them upward.

Yeah, @!”#%¥<€! Chinese Engineers!!!!!

After an hour, and replacing the new nozzle with another new nozzle, twice, I was able to angle the spray up to about 3 inches up the windshield. It cleared Lincolns vision of the road perfectly. I took the original nozzle, gently wire brushed off the paint, opened up the hole a little bit with a hot pic.

Works perfectly. I probably could’ve done that without even removing them. Picking up a couple clean ones is now on the pull apart list.

 

[JoshT]

Old 5.0L short block out of the truck and on the ground. Need to transfer parts from it to new short block. Have a little suspension work to tackle/finish while engine is out, then it's time to start reassembly.

Unfortunately that will have to wait a few days, a doctor appointment tomorrow is going to keep me out of the shop until Friday. Possibly have short block going back in this weekend, then I'm on hold again for my heads to arrive.

 

[Rick W]

Old 5.0L short block out of the truck and on the ground. Need to transfer parts from it to new short block. Have a little suspension work to tackle/finish while engine is out, then it's time to start reassembly.

Unfortunately that will have to wait a few days, a doctor appointment tomorrow is going to keep me out of the shop until Friday. Possibly have short block going back in this weekend, then I'm on hold again for my heads to arrive.

You should do a build project thread on this. It’s everybody’s dream to put a V-8 in their buggy, and you’re doing a good job with the ups and downs on it. Just a suggestion. Seems it would take you the same amount of time and you get a central place for people to check up on it.

By to say this, hope it helps

 

[JoshT]

You should do a build project thread on this. It’s everybody’s dream to put a V-8 in their buggy, and you’re doing a good job with the ups and downs on it. Just a suggestion. Seems it would take you the same amount of time and you get a central place for people to check up on it.

By to say this, hope it helps

Probably should, but I'm not good at taking pictures. I'm also not in my own space and dad works on it some during the day when I'm not there, so I'm not going to slow things down to try and start taking them. I even started a thread on my F-100 in the appropriate section. I made one post months ago, started prepping a second, and never returned to it.

 

[ekrampitzjr]

Got the fuel filter replaced today. It was apparently the original installed at the factory.

The truck has 155,000 miles. I had had a few long cranks to start (up to ~10 seconds a time or two) and the truck stalled when I made a semi-hard stop at a stoplight on Monday, so that told me it was time.

Paid to have it done. With my luck, because of the questions about clips and tools and possible damage while trying to remove the lines, it seemed best to play it safe. The tech said the fuel that came out of the old filter was very dirty. The outside of the filter was also pretty dirty too, which probably confirms it was OE.

 

[Uncle Gump]