Well, after fixing the toilet that decided to start leaking this morning and opening up the boiler to find that the heating elements welded themselves to the fire brick so all 1,200 lbs of brick has to come out… (dad started puttering with cleaning all that up, kept him out of trouble, lol)…
I went out to wrench on the green Ranger. Since I’ve done a bunch of things lately that needed done, I decided to do a mix of things. Moved the horn (again) and got the battery tray bolted down. Using the plastic Explorer battery tray so I can fit a 65 series battery. Really wasn’t too difficult to do, but the drivers side fender would have to come off to do it. I’ll have to get some pictures and stuff.
Got the throttle cable swapped out, got a broken bolt out, got the cruise module and cable under the hood, one axle shaft in, few other little things. Have to figure out how to splice the starting/charging harness in, the plug on the Explorer harness doesn’t match the Ranger plug. All the junkyard trucks had plugs that looked like the Explorer harness, oddly enough. Dad’s 5.0 swapped Ranger we did has a bunch of different wires in it. Going to have to figure that all out.
Also have to figure out where and how the transmission cooler is going to fit. Either have to fit it behind the grill or behind the bumper. Worried that behind the bumper will be kind of low and may not let me keep the factory “skid plate” plus require custom brackets. Behind the grill (normal location) I’ll have to cut the center support out and build custom brackets for both the cooler and the grill. My original idea was to mount it there and use the mounts that are on the transmission cooler, but that may put it kinda too low. Bear in mind, I’m trying to use a transmission cooler out of an 07 F-150 because it’s a bigger cooler and has threaded fittings so I can easily hook it in with -6 AN