92 Ranger XLT wanting to PreRunner

[Gates.Ranger37]

My dad bought me a truck for school about two months ago. When I first got it, I thought it was a piece of crap. It's actually a really nice rig. The best part is that it was only $500! The guy my dad bought it from had no use for it anymore and was going to donate it for a tax write off.

It's a 1992 Ranger XLT 4.0L V6 2WD

The only problem with it is that the engine burns some oil and the front bumper is bashed in on the driver's side. It's got about 160XXX miles. Lucky for me I'm going to the Junkyard tomorrow to look for a new bumper, some old Chevy rear leaf springs, and some old f250 mirrors. Before this years over I want to have some 31's on some Rock Crawler 15x8's.

My question is:

Is it really worth it to buy a new stock bumper, or should I fabricate a new PreRunner bumper? I know I couldn't do it by myself, but one of my friends can dominate the bumper fabricating project. The other thing is front suspension. I don't want to buy a kit for my truck so I was thinking about putting in some new coils or something. Last thing is My light in the rear above the slider window doesn't work. I know it's not the bulb because I've tried more than one. Any ideas on fixing it?

Here are some pics of what I've done so far on my truck. I've pretty much just added a CD player and polished the crap out of it. I also sold that gnarly canopy top. I drilled some holes in the bed liner to expose the holes for my new ratchet straps. I got some new wipers and sealed a leak in the front window. I hope to do a lot more work.

 

[Gates.Ranger37]

Junkyard!

I went to the junkyard today like I said. I ended up finding some rear leaf springs off of a 2001 Chevy Silverado 1500. I took them up to the counter along with some f150 mirrors. The guy charged me $60.00 for everything. I almost crapped my pants. I immediately said deal. Here are some pictures of my truck from today. I put the new leaf springs in. My buddy and I had to move the leaf spring brackets up and weld them on. He basically did everything though. It gave me about a 2" lift in the rear. The mirrors are going to go on tonight. I have a Flowmaster muffler too that is going on to replace my rusty one without a tail pipe... I got the Flowmaster for $40. It's also going on tonight. I'm going to lift the front soon too. I'm getting 2" lift coils for $75. After that I'll be able to fit 31x10.5x15's on there and I'll be ready to hit the trails. After everything is said and done I will have only invested $1000. Pretty cheap, eh?

 

[big91explorer]

Helluva deal man, why lift a 2wd though? Prerunner? If you want a trail rig, you should get a 4wd!

 

[RaceRanger97]

if you are trying to get travel out of those, you need to arch them and use a longer shackle. also I would avoid moving the location of the centerpin on the leafs, they will surely break at the unused hole if you drive it hard at all

 

[BOL]

I have a 91 xlt 4.0 4x4 Is 4 inch lift practical on pre runners? Do you just lift the front?