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- Oct 31, 2014
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- 11
- Vehicle Year
- 2003
- Transmission
- Manual
Aaaaand I posted in the wrong forum, haha whoops.
Hey All, I bought a new 03' ranger fx4II, and have spent the last few weeks working on it. Making good progress, This morning my buddy recommended I post a build log here, so I scrounged up whatever pictures I had for the below!
I wasn't snapping pics with a log in mind, so it's a little lacking, my apologies!
So my old (91', little, red) ranger needed brakes, and a new radiator, and basically all basic maintenance, it was time to put her out to pasture and get a new ride.
(Pasture = Off roading till she dies. She bombed around huge trails for 6 hours yesterday, lost the front shocks, and brakes are shot, but still drives some how. Going to picknpull with her this week.)
Bought a new (to me) 2003 Ranger, fx4 level II:
She needed some work though. Rust spots and dented:
Fender flares pretty faded:
Even the tailgate rusted through the bottom:
(Could actually see through the tailgate, uh oh, haha)
The box upper edge, and body lower 1/3 edge were both dinged up, pitted, and beginning to form rust.
Mechanically sound, but damn the body needed work.
Figured it was a good opportunity to learn a little bit about body work and sheet metal.
I got rocking and rolling and (didn't take pictures) of:
Removing all rust with wire wheel, Angle grinder,
Banging out big dents to be relatively flat,
Applying POR15 rust preventative to anything that previously had rust (this kit took days by itself)
Bondo, sanding, repeat X4:
Taped off and painted (Primer X2, colour X3):
Clear coat X3, sanding with 1000, 2000 grit to hide the colour transition. (Not shown)
Here's the cool part, bought a kit of roll on bed liner, this stuff:
Taped off, and sanded (120 grit) the target areas till white:
Took a break and a beer:
and rolled bed liner on the aforementioned lower 1/3, truck box top edge, and fender flares:
Tape removed, to show nice crisp lines, also shown here is the rust spot from before:
Will post more updates as they become available.
Pending: Replace gas door (rusted through). Finalize tailgate (it's with a welder), Decide whether or not to bed line the plastic pars of the bumpers...
Take more full truck photos once truck is free from the garage. (This stuff takes 2-4 days to cure enough that water wont cause damage, so shes staying safely inside for now.)
Will keep this log active moving forward! I don't think this is worthy of the tech articles, but hey, it's something!
JW
Hey All, I bought a new 03' ranger fx4II, and have spent the last few weeks working on it. Making good progress, This morning my buddy recommended I post a build log here, so I scrounged up whatever pictures I had for the below!
I wasn't snapping pics with a log in mind, so it's a little lacking, my apologies!
So my old (91', little, red) ranger needed brakes, and a new radiator, and basically all basic maintenance, it was time to put her out to pasture and get a new ride.
(Pasture = Off roading till she dies. She bombed around huge trails for 6 hours yesterday, lost the front shocks, and brakes are shot, but still drives some how. Going to picknpull with her this week.)
Bought a new (to me) 2003 Ranger, fx4 level II:
She needed some work though. Rust spots and dented:
Fender flares pretty faded:
Even the tailgate rusted through the bottom:
(Could actually see through the tailgate, uh oh, haha)
The box upper edge, and body lower 1/3 edge were both dinged up, pitted, and beginning to form rust.
Mechanically sound, but damn the body needed work.
Figured it was a good opportunity to learn a little bit about body work and sheet metal.
I got rocking and rolling and (didn't take pictures) of:
Removing all rust with wire wheel, Angle grinder,
Banging out big dents to be relatively flat,
Applying POR15 rust preventative to anything that previously had rust (this kit took days by itself)
Bondo, sanding, repeat X4:
Taped off and painted (Primer X2, colour X3):
Clear coat X3, sanding with 1000, 2000 grit to hide the colour transition. (Not shown)
Here's the cool part, bought a kit of roll on bed liner, this stuff:
Taped off, and sanded (120 grit) the target areas till white:
Took a break and a beer:
and rolled bed liner on the aforementioned lower 1/3, truck box top edge, and fender flares:
Tape removed, to show nice crisp lines, also shown here is the rust spot from before:
Will post more updates as they become available.
Pending: Replace gas door (rusted through). Finalize tailgate (it's with a welder), Decide whether or not to bed line the plastic pars of the bumpers...
Take more full truck photos once truck is free from the garage. (This stuff takes 2-4 days to cure enough that water wont cause damage, so shes staying safely inside for now.)
Will keep this log active moving forward! I don't think this is worthy of the tech articles, but hey, it's something!
JW
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