4x4 v8 Ranger

[Josh40601]

DAYUM what a trailer!!

 

[Bennybooster]

A team we race with has one like that, we were jealous the whole time

 

[simonsays]

DAYUM what a trailer!!

Hahaha Yeah its a huge trailer, not fun to tow but awesome to have the walk on roof and everything. 14 ft tall and 17k lbs.

Truck ran great in baja, unfortunately my dads didn't. we had our first dnf at a score race in over 2 years. We had a bunch of stupid issues and without one of them we could have finished. The worse part is we were running at the end but just ran out of time.

We had a tiny rock get stuck between the harmonic balancer and the crank position sensor breaking it and leaving him with a dead motor in the middle of the course completely blocking the course. We brought the new truck in to recover him having to tow him 10 miles threw sandwashes, silt hills, 3ft whoops and rocky hills and anything that got in the way so we can get to the raptor who had the crank position sensor. I was pulling him at about 45mph threw 3ft whoops and passing other truck while doing it. This cost us about 2 hours.
After we got that fixed he ran 100miles flawlessly catching back up to 2nd place, he was just a few miles behind 2nd when a bolt in the rear suspension sheered off making it fall off and stick into the ground and folding it all up under the truck. We decided the fastest way to fix this would be for me to drive the new truck out to him, give him my rear suspension and then just wait till morning till they could bring the suspension pieces back to me.
At this point we had to keep an average speed of 43mph for the next 120 miles to finish in time which was do able until the trans let go, we replaced the trans but at that point only had 20mins to do 80 miles which wasn't possible so we loaded the truck up on the trailer took the rear susp off and headed out in the raptor to come pick me back up.

U can see the upper link laying on the ground bent in a L instead of being straight.
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[prerunnerwannabe]

That stinks man! Those pictures made me cringe! ...except for the first two that is

 

[simonsays]

How about these pics much better to look at ? Lol

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[prerunnerwannabe]

Hecks yes!!! Baja is just beautiful!! Your trucks don't look too bad either

 

[4.0B2]

what's the Raptor looking truck w/ the LED lights on it?? i don't see any more pics of it!?

 

[simonsays]

what's the Raptor looking truck w/ the LED lights on it?? i don't see any more pics of it!?

It's our Chase raptor I thought I posted up pics on it when we got it, its just a stock raptor with a rigid light package and now a destroyed skidplate It's a fun truck for sure.

It's color matches my prerunner(and soon the new truck) very well.

Some fun raptor shots..

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[Josh40601]

I'm digging the raptor. Always liked those trucks

 

[simonsays]

Temporary bumper for its first race. We have so much more we want to do to get it ready to race but this has got to do for now. Loading the truck up tonight for the trucks first race.

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[Josh40601]

Where you racing at?

 

[simonsays]

Barstow on Saturday

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[simonsays]

Final product...

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[Josh40601]

Those look sick buddy. Good luck at Barstow.

If I decide going fast is my new cup of tea, I'm checking you guys out

 

[simonsays]

Holy cow... what a race. As I expected my valuing was completely wrong so had to go slow, my motor would randomly just lose fuel pressure and shut off, had to sit and wait a couple mins till it would re fire. We lost a cooling fan so had tonelli run the raptor out to us to change the fan. We ended up timing out at the last road crossing 5 miles from the finish while still running which is just the worst feeling. We ended up 4th or 5th which should keep us in 2nd for the season points which is the important thing.

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