Took the truck out for a quick thrash just to make sure stuff wouldn’t fall off. I’ve got a trip coming up in about a month, gotta make sure she’s ready
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stuff is not supposed to fall off? 
Well, at least hopefully not any big stuff
Truck passed it’s last inspection yesterday. Next year it turns 25, and will be considered a classic. No inspections means some interesting things may be able to happen under the hood
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Truck passed it’s last inspection yesterday. Next year it turns 25, and will be considered a classic. No inspections means some interesting things may be able to happen under the hood
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or an ecoboost... those 2.3s are damn reasonable right now.
Leaving for a wheeling trip today, I decided to throw together a transfer case skid plate real quick so I don’t break something. I had very little welding gas left so I just stitched it together enough to work. Not the prettiest but it’ll probably get beat up anyway. I’ll try and take plenty of pics/video on the trails
Pretty good weekend. We had a few smaller jeeps with us so we mostly stuck to relatively easy trails, or at least trails with bypasses. I was able to get into a few difficult sections, and played around in the rock garden. The truck did well, I have some room for improvement but I’m very happy with it. I did get a little damage on the passenger side, I think I might be able to pull it out with a plunger
Had to do a little repair. Drove the ranger around a little just get the fluids moving, and I had a small leak in the radiator. I ordered a brand new one on rockauto, and it arrived with the mounts broken. Unfortunately I waited too long to return it, so here was my attempt at fixing it. For next time, has anyone purchased an all metal radiator for a 5.0 swap?
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had to get the boats down to the creek. Got a little stuck on the way.
Next upgrade will probably be electric fans, spinning tires in mud got the engine real hot
Also made an instagram page if anybody’s on there
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