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88 ranger build thread


rangeron33s

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City
missouri
Vehicle Year
1988
Transmission
Manual
Started my build a few months ago and its just now starting to pick up the pace. Will post pictures later. Rite now I'm just putting a different 2.9 in to hold me over until I get the 4.0. In a month or so I will be getting my buddies 79 dana 44 and 9 inch I will be narrowing. Eventually wanting to switch to a dana 60 and a 10 1/4 rear. Going to be running 5:13 gears and 35s. Eventually new paint. And some small things along the way. This is going to be a slow one so hang in there
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Cleaned up the engine bay today. Motor almost done. Pretty productive day. Motor should be done tomorrow and engine bay should be done. Hopefully will have it dropped in with the tranny this weekend

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Good looking truck.
Getting ready to do the same thing with my 87.
Cracked a head on the old 2.9 and filled the motor up with antifreeze. Bought another really clean ( looks like a crate motor) and complete 2.9 yesterday from a 90 that has the new head castings.
 
I bought this truck on craigslist for 600 bucks. Had a 2.9 that burned oil and antifreeze and leaked a lot of oil from the valve covers and had a nasty tick and has a 5 speed. I pulled this 2.9 out of my 92 before scrapping it. So far I've scooped enough oil clumps out of the engine bay and off the cross members to fill a five gallon bucket :beer:

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Its getting there. Thanks to the pressure washer and some oven cleaner. Just wish I has some before pictures
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Today is just some simple stuff. Freezing rain and snow. Going to pick up an 06 kawasaki 750 v-twin quad later. Getting paid to get it running :thumbup:
Other than that I'm just going to work on rebuilding the second head and putting the motor together. Just some small stuff until its back in the 60s tomorrow
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Picked up an 06 750 kawasaki vtwin brute force side project yesterday with my buddies ranger. 2wd and no squat at all.

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Getting the cherry picker Thursday to drop the motor in! Very excited to see it driving again. Its a shame I wont be able to afford oil or antifreeze until next week though so I wont be able to crank it over at all. :mad: next thing on the list is a rear driveshaft. Broke the ear on my 2 pieces' front shaft. No parts store sells the front shaft. So I gotta figure something out until I can afford a 1 piece

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Got the motor together today

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Looking good! You're lucky to have such a clean firewall. I'm going to have my work cut out for me one day....Mine has lots of holes
 
Looking good! You're lucky to have such a clean firewall. I'm going to have my work cut out for me one day....Mine has lots of holes

Haha the bad oil leak prevented any rust in the engine bay all the way back to the middle of the transmission. Frame rails still have paint on them as far back as the seat bolts :thumbup:

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Transmission in today. Its all coming together :)

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