1994 4x4 Ranger...Keep it or sell it?

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Hello all,

Just need some opinions...

I have a 1994 4x4 Ranger.
It is nearly 20 years old and parts are kinda hard to find.
I'm in need of a set of spindles and Ford don't make them anymore.
I can locate them at any Ford parts dealer.

I will inquire Bronco Graveyard tomorrow.
As they mfg. spindles. I have the ID numbers required for them to let me know if they will fit. Anyone use them, and what do they think?
Are they well mfg.?

I want to keep the truck, I truly do.
But if parts will be harder to find.
I may sell the truck...your thoughts?

It has a jasper rebuilt 4.0 motor installed at 135k. It currently has 156K.
With 6" Skyjacker suspension lift, dana 35 (3.73), 5-spd manual, 1999 drive shaft (on carrier bearing anymore), 33" BFG muds.

The picture is of when I had new tires installed and I detailed it.
I love this truck!!
Great truck for trail riding!

It was my daily driver for many years. My commute to work was 3 miles round
trip for 15 years. I have a new job now that involves 90 miles round trip everyday, which I use a 95 Maxima for. Long hours at work aslo...so the truck gets used on the weekends....if that.

Let me know.....what you would do!?

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What rock have you been living under that parts are "hard to find"? Ranger parts are about the easiest thing int the world to come up with. Just not new ones.

The spindles on your truck should be the same ones on pretty much every 4x4 Ranger and Explorer from 1991 to 1997. Comb the junk yard man.


I would keep it myself, even if it doesn't get used much. You don't think about it while you have one, but the minute you get rid of your truck you start finding all sorts of things you need a truck for.

 

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I would try and keep it as long as I could. I know how you feel on finding parts for an older vehicle when I had a 1980 Pinto back during the mid '90s and parts for it were almost non-existant.

 

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94 Ranger

Yup...your right. I do live under a rock!
That is why I asked the question.

I'm not a "Ranger Spaz" like I used to be.
Life goes on....wish it could be simpler like it used to be.

Thanks for the years of spindle compatibility.

Keep them coming....I can take the abuse!
And most definitely can use the knowledge everyone on the site has!

Thanks in advance and enjoy your night!

 

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If you happen to find a truck in the yard from 95 to 97 don't stop at the spindles. Take EVERYTHING. Knuckles, calipers, brackets, etc. 95 did away with the stupid slide pins and went to bolt on twin-piston calipers. And it will all bolt right up.

 

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Great, thanks man
What can be done as so the nuts won't back off of the spindles and cause wheel slop leading to bearing failure. Which in turn beat up the spindles pretty bad....all chewed up!

 

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There should be a pin to hold the inner nut in place. It goes through a hole on the key-wayed washer that goes between the two nuts. Make sure that pin is there, and engaged in a hole, and then torque the living piss out of the outer nut.

 

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Torque the piss out of the outer...can do!!