'85 Ranger Restomod

[85_Ranger4x4]

I am beyond words...

Tonight is picture night for my car club, we (by we I mean me) take pictures of everybody with their cars for local newspaper to run a thing before the car show.

So I throw the panel back in and decided a run to town would make a great test run. Run thru McDonalds drive thru to get supper for everyone while I take pictures. I am minding my gauges, temp is creeping up and up. Ok now the fans should kick on.. but they don't, I flip the switch both ways, no still no fans. Takes seeming forever and three days for the car ahead of me to get their order and of course they stammer thru ours. Get it out on the main drag and start cramming air in the grille a gear lower than normal to get the flex a lite churning and it cools back down.

It literally ran perfectly this morning at like 1am, what is the deal now?

Over the night a stupid freaking mouse chewed both wires off the connectors going to the temp sensor.

I had made a jumper last night specifically for this connection to test the fan operation.

 

[sgtsandman]

I am beyond words...

Tonight is picture night for my car club, we (by we I mean me) take pictures of everybody with their cars for local newspaper to run a thing before the car show.

So I throw the panel back in and decided a run to town would make a great test run. Run thru McDonalds drive thru to get supper for everyone while I take pictures. I am minding my gauges, temp is creeping up and up. Ok now the fans should kick on.. but they don't, I flip the switch both ways, no still no fans. Takes seeming forever and three days for the car ahead of me to get their order and of course they stammer thru ours. Get it out on the main drag and start cramming air in the grille a gear lower than normal to get the flex a lite churning and it cools back down.

It literally ran perfectly this morning at like 1am, what is the deal now?

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Over the night a stupid freaking mouse chewed both wires off the connectors going to the temp sensor.

I had made a jumper last night specifically for this connection to test the fan operation.

I think it might be time to consider calling in a priest to exerocise the demons. Blessing it with holy water might be in order as well. Either that or consider naming it Christine.

 

[Jazzer]

Peppermint oil on cotton balls stuffed here and there….

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I think it might be time to consider calling in a priest to exerocise the demons. Blessing it with holy water might be in order as well. Either that or consider naming it Christine.

I need to have a talk with the barn cats, their whole purpose of being is to "exerocise the demons"

It is just incredibly funny, I have been working on the wiring, mainly efan wiring for a month and a half. I go to test drive it and within hours of completion mice do a strategic strike and crash the whole system.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Well the POS left me enough wire to just put new ends on it. So I did that and retested it with the jumper I made Tuesday night and everything still worked as it should.



I let it sit and idle while I tuned up the brakes on my bike and the fan cycled on and off like it is supposed to. Its been awhile since I heard them run but the fans sound like they have more gusto with my current setup.

Humidity did make for a kind of neat picture too.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

We inherited this canpoy last spring, finally tried it with the connector piece... and I think the Ranger truck bed sleeper can now have a screened room. There are curtains that will fill in the mesh too.







As my team grows bigger I wouldn't be opposed to using something like this for a regular tent where we can sleep on cots and the truck has a drawer system so we can utilize sharing a tent with the truck. Here it is shown with the main tent body really too close to the truck, it could move away from the truck a long ways, the entire back window of my topper is blocked. Also it has a door in the connector peice as well on the drivers side.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Getting her all super tuned for a run to Kansas next month. Its gonna have to work for a living too as we are taking the Apache and the Bronco isn't wired for a trailer... and I want to drive the Ranger anyway.

After last years catastrophe I wanted to check and repack the wheel bearings. Everything looked fine.

Blew it apart and got everything cleaned up, caught some kind of bug that has been kicking my butt. I got one side put together Saturday night and it was about all I could do to finish it tonight. I got it back together, back on the ground and just went inside for the night.

But I did have good help... good enough I might have to try to find kid sized gloves.

 

[Terrys87]

Squirrels can make life wonderful too with wiring, They have the skills to know which wire to chew up as well. That tent set up looks like a great score for the back of the Ranger. Great to see your helper getting the bearings packed up for you. Start them young.

 

[SenorNoob]

Bearing packing is almost a lost art these days. I've met many older (than me at 35) mechanics who had never even heard of it..

 

[sgtsandman]

Bearing packing is almost a lost art these days. I've met many older (than me at 35) mechanics who had never even heard of it..

I tried one of the cone things to pack the bearings once. I wasn't impressed and went back to the old way of doing it.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Bearing packing is almost a lost art these days. I've met many older (than me at 35) mechanics who had never even heard of it..

Most if not all newer vehicles don't even have a bearing you can pack.

I tried one of the cone things to pack the bearings once. I wasn't impressed and went back to the old way of doing it.

Dad has one mounted to a board with a dedicated grease gun. It works great... but at a farm repair shop he uses his a lot more than I would. If you don't use it often the grease in the cone gets dirty and then you waste a ton of grease.

For me once a year or whatever, packing bearings by hand isn't a big deal. It really doesn't take that long and there is virtually no waste.

 

[PlumCrazy]

I use a Lisle Handy Packer and it is tits.

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[Uncle Gump]

I use a Lisle Handy Packer and it is tits.

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I used one of those for years...

I think that was one of those tools I loaned out and it never found its way back.

As bad as my hands are anymore... $25 seems cheap... I'd swear i paid more then that when I bought mine back in the 80's.

 

[PlumCrazy]

I used one of those for years...

I think that was one of those tools I loaned out and it never found its way back.

As bad as my hands are anymore... $25 seems cheap... I'd swear i paid more then that when I bought mine back in the 80's.

They have been 20 - 25 bucks for at least the past 15 years. I had to replace mine once because it got drenched in brake cleaner and the clear plastic shrunk and cracked

 

[Shran]

I have that Lisle bearing packer too. Love that thing. Still have to glove up and rub grease on the outside but at least you know the rollers get packed full.