'85 Ranger Restomod

[bobbywalter]

The thing is it would just be me pulling it. I have done everything but the pivot bolts on the axle in the truck.



I didn't want to toast the trans or turn the D28 inside out. It wouldn't even wiggle so I didn't see the point. I just walked back and got the tractor that had the boom on it (it had a snow blade on it by then though) The abs thing would work better if I could see the tires, I use that principle with the differential brakes on my tractors... and actually used it to jerk the truck out.

once you get used to it, you will know what tire is spinning and needs held without looking.

putting the solonoids on momentaries works the best with the rears isolated....just bumping the brake a bit. of course probably a horrible idea with a d28

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

once you get used to it, you will know what tire is spinning and needs held without looking.

putting the solonoids on momentaries works the best with the rears isolated....just bumping the brake a bit. of course probably a horrible idea with a d28

The plan is to put a Heep D35 limited slip in the TTB 35 when I find one. Not ideal for rock crawling I know but for muddin or drift bustin the limited slip in the rear works great.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

It will be next week before I get the recovery cut and posted.

 

[dangerranger83]

Link broken

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Works for me on both my computer and phone?

 

[dangerranger83]

Invalid parameters. I'm on tapatalk.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I just use Safari on my phone. No idea what the parameters are for tapatalk.

 

[dangerranger83]

There it is

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

My original intent was to try to pull it uphill out of fear of it coming loose and rolling into the tractor. No dice even after I moved snow away... needed chains and it was too cold and getting dark too fast to mess with that. So I tried from the rear and it behaved even though I couldn't get the steering wheel turned enough to lock. It tried to mess around but the tractor just dragged the turned wheels straight.

When you hear the governor snapping the throttle on the tractor, that is me "working the brakes"

Interesting how it rolled 2' back uphill to drop back into its holes before the second hitch.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Made some progress on disassembling the front end, only 2 nuts really fought hard. One was for the rear sway bar mount, the tab broke off so it just spun and the other was a radius arm nut. Otherwise it zipped apart like it was put together yesterday for the most part. It really surprised me, it has 15 years of driving around in salt and whatever and 15 years of sitting out in the weather.

 

[dangerranger83]

I had mine out by myself in a matter of an hour since I knew I didn't have to be careful with it.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I doubt it would have taken that long to torch it out.

I wanted to keep the radius arms and radius arm crossmember as spares since they are in really good shape.

 

[dangerranger83]

I broke my radius arm bolt when I was taking mine out, that was my no turning back point when I did my SAS.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Solved the non rotating pinion mystery:

No oil to be had, things were just moist with water. I set the thing on the pinion and half filled it with used engine oil to try to soak the pinion bearings to get it to spin a little easier. I set the bucket in the garage 20' away and walked back and it had all ran out the pinion seal. With the impact on the pinion nut I can very slowly rotate it. No lockbolt in the carrier, wonder if it is broke off because the cross pin will not budge... or it could be rusted. Hard to tell. Interesting that someone else had been in there, there was blue silicon slathered over everything aside from under the bolts that held the housing to the beam, they saved money by using clear there.

I would love to get it off so I can haul the pieces to work to torch the springs off without it flopping around. Going to play with it some more tonight, hopefully can get it to come off from the hub end.

The carcass is getting a little picked over by now.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Got the brakes and hubs pulled apart. The auto hubs vary quite a bit from the manual ones in how they come apart. Searched and found my big spindle socket before I started and had no use for the poor thing. The splined key that goes into the spindle is a clever creation.

Shafts are out of the beams, stiff haven't got the PS out of the diff though.

Glad I am doing this in my driveway than in a JY for the fist time, if I have to drop a different carrier out there I now know more about how it comes out.