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

[snoranger]

I agree. I had and Air National Guard flag, thin green line, and an Agent Orange Toxic Exposure flag. To be on the safe side, I took down the thin orange line flag that represent search and rescue and EMS down too incase some ignoramus thinks it’s a police or military flag as well.

I was half tempted to flip the US flag upside down but it might get interpreted that I was in distress instead of the nation, so decided against it.

Not much I can do about the veteran plates on the trucks since they are the registration plates for them.

I would be concerned that some of the, let’s call them less informed people, would confuse the upside down flag as a sign of protest.

 

[Bgunner]

So I went to go fishing and....

Yup replaced them in February of 2020... got to love the cheap Jap Crap shoved down our Rangers throats now days... Putting the old driver side on to the passenger side, the whole reason to swap them was to remove a rattle and look better but I'll take function over form any day...


I enter into evidence a pic of the old Honda Civic with a few years of metal adding, ugly but damn dependable since I had it 9 years before selling it to help pay for the ranger, sold for $650 cost of the Ranger $600 :

What you don't see it the driver side rocker was hand fabricated from a flat piece under the plastic rocker cover. That was a summer project and where I realized I needed to fix mt welder.

 

[JohnnyO]

Took today and tomorrow off work. Changed the transfer case fluid. Auto Zone has Valvoline Synpower Transfer Case Fluid that is a buck a quart less than the Mobil 1 ATF I had been using.
You will need:
2 quarts of ATF or transfer case fluid. It holds 1.5 but you will spill at least half a quart.
Sheet of cardboard for under the truck for the fluid you will spill.
Wear a black t-shirt for the fluid you will spill.
3/8" ratchet for the plugs.
Transfer pump. $8 at Harbor Freight.

 

[sgtsandman]

The grease able leaf spring bolts came in. This may be my project for the weekend.

 

[Ramcharger90]

African Swallow

This reminds me of the Semien warriors of Papa New Guinea

 

[Ramcharger90]

Take Z....... This one better last

 

[Ramcharger90]

New T5Z is in
Cleaned MAF
Put new plugs in runs much better.
Also put a whoopin on a focus st 40 roll.

Poor lil guy.... He tried so hard.

 

[sgtsandman]

Got the left side grease able spring bolts in. Man I forgot what a SOB the upper bolts are. Hopefully these grease able bolts will make this no longer a problem. Tomorrow, right side.

 

[Ramcharger90]

Covered the hole in my floor today. Still waiting for the carpet to come. But all that heat blowing up in the cab made it nearly unbearable to drive.

Good enough for now.

Also check out my awesome new centric console..... it will work until I make or find one I like.

 

[Ramcharger90]

Also im not sure if I posted my cool sticker or not.

 

[G8orFord]

I drove it to the shop to work on the new race truck. We've got the roll cage about 90% complete.

 

[sgtsandman]

I got the passenger side done today. Less of an ordeal than the driver’s side. I think mainly because I know what works and what doesn’t this time around.

So, all three leaf spring suspension bolts and new shackles installed on both sides now. Which makes the suspension all but brand new.

 

[racsan]

The passenger side is always more of a problem, due to the crowning of the roads water, salt ect drain off to that side and it stays wet there longer, where the drivers side is close to the middle of the road and will be more dry and drained off.

 

[sgtsandman]

The passenger side is always more of a problem, due to the crowning of the roads water, salt ect drain off to that side and it stays wet there longer, where the drivers side is close to the middle of the road and will be more dry and drained off.

I edited my post. The passenger side was the one I finished last. I did the driver’s side first. Brain fart.

I’d say both were about the same as far as condition. I just knew what worked and what didn’t the second time around. I’m just glad I still had the ball joint pickle fork. I haven’t used that thing in years. It came in real handy for this job. That and a 3# hammer.

Beat on the end of the handle a little bit to wedge the bolt out a little more. Rotate it with a ratchet or breaker bar as appropriate and repeat until the end of the bolt was almost out. Then bust out the angle grinder with a cutting wheel to cut the bolt off inside the hanger. The shackle rotates right out of the hanger then.

 

[4.0blue98]

Used the 98's tailgate to hold some tools over the weekend while I changed the struts on the front of the wife's Sienna. Passenger side started leaking oil with only a little over 285k on the OE one's. Cheap Toyota crap...