4 year college project

[Captain Ledd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FDkPENUzZQ
I actually wasn't waiting for my dad, I didn't have the knob screwed on the kill switch/power cutoff button and was trying to pull it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRsTIgWYefM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1NGsfTzIg8 < best one IMOHO

Still have carb issues, currently exhaust is dumping straight out of the headers, and there's bunch more to finish up including the front differential and driveshaft. BUT IT MOVED!!!

1980 302 - 6 .060 over ; 2 .090 over (not done by me, came that way)
Ford T-18
Ford Dana 20 (unlike Jeeps these two DO NOT mate together from the factory, thanks Jeep friends...)
6" skyjacker suspension lift
Jeep Dana 35 rear end Aussie locked - it was cheap, will be a welded 8.8 very soon
D35 front swap
33 x 12.50 ProComp MT's
4.56 gears
essentially a complete new wiring harness except for the headlights/tail lights, etc. Bascially the wire harness on the drivers side remained... mostly intact.
Bed mounted gas tank
Bed mounted radiator
NO Body lift

The only 2 moving mechanical parts that were still from the original Ranger that connect to eachother are the speedometer and speedometer cable, and the steering shaft and the steering gear box. Literally everything else is from some other vehicle make/model.

Spring break is the week after this week for us, hopefully I can tie up most of the loose ends.

 

[Dangeranger3]

Thats an awesome truck. Can't wait to see some action shots.

 

[fastford04]

wut backspace are those wheels u got on there with the 33's

 

[Captain Ledd]

4", 15"x10"

Should have gone 8", but oh well. Bought them when I got the Dana 35 rear axle about 3 years ago, before I knew any better. live and learn, I mostly do trails so I think they'll be fine. Didn't quite turn out exactly how I thought it would be, but will hopefully be plenty capable. Besides, things aren't technically ever finished right? You'll notice on the video's the lights are no longer on the top and if you look real careful the tow hooks are now flipped as well.

The carb leaks gas from just about everywhere except where it actually goes in, so it's really hard to keep running and it's extremely rich. Got a new one off a pretty strong running engine a friend had. and need a little more support for the radiator besides the hoses attached to it and I need to relocate a gas line (I hooked it up just so I could see it run). Those are the big things right now

The only other things I really want done to it are the 8.8 swap and a full rollcage. The floors and cab mounts are scarier than you'd think from the body condition, there's a reason the projects name is Deathtrap (check the youtube tags). There's still a small part of me that thinks it should have stayed in the junkyard where I found it.

I might do the D44 knuckle swap since I'm getting a complete fullsize 8.8 for stupid cheap ($40) and have the shafts cut down for the explorer axle. This is a very recent development so it's not exactly on the top of the priority list and I'm still figuring stuff out for it. I've got 3 extra D35 front ends lying around (extra shafts + hubs) so I can mess with the ball joint thing and not have to decommission the rig barely after it's able to run. We shall see. I'm also still tossing around the idea of a bed bob, since it's a 7' bed and has quite the rear overhang.

Pic of the adapter plate, thats 4.5" of 6061 aluminum.