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My wife's grandfather bought this 1991 Ford Ranger used in about 1994. When he passed away my wife's uncle inherited it. I remember my father in law mentioning if his brother in law ever wanted to get rid of it he wouldn't mind getting it. Unfortunately my wife's uncle passed away in 2021, and Ron (my father in law) did manage to get the truck.
This is before they brought it home from Denver (to Omaha)
Ron picked "BOJAC" for the license plates to pay homage to Uncle Bo and Grandpa Jack, the previous to owners of the truck.
Pretty well loaded, 4.0 automatic, push button 4wd, color matched topper, alloy wheels etc. While not really babied, it is pretty clean. Not sure what it has on it right now but had about 67,000 miles on it when Ron brought it home.
The engine is still painted gray!
The two sister ships meet.
That first year (2021) he convoyed with me to Badlands Offroad Park near Attica Indiana for the TRS Roundup. It even got to represent gen 2 Rangers in the in the TRS Ranger generation lineup next to my '85 which I thought was pretty cool.
But the maiden voyage was rough. It of course drove beautifully on the highway and really did quite impressive in 2wd for most of the trailride. We were just kinda putzing around a open play area and he was following me, We went down, around some trees and came back up a hill, I look back and he is gone. I radio how he was and he said he has a problem. Turned out the t-case shift motor did the typical t-case shift motor thing and didn't work. We were in loose sand and couldn't get up the hill so he back back down to get a run for it and slid off the side, it was pretty scary. Oliver was a asleep in the passenger seat at the time.
I didn't get a pic of the recovery, Jim tied TRS2 on the front to anchor it to keep it from turning and falling farther off the edge while Bobby winched it from behind and pulled it out.
Bobby and Rocky checking out the operation (or the lack thereof) of the t-case motor.
Back at camp Ron and Oliver dug into it and made sure it was getting power and was actually the shift motor.
The bumper did kind of get rearranged a little during the recovery. Ron got it a lot straighter there with a jack.
As an aside I snagged my spare wheel from this truck before we left, I mentioned to Ron it had a unaturally perfect bumper which he snagged. I still have no idea how the bumpers and wheels survived so nice compared to the rest of it.
Time to head home:
Two high rollers at the Hampton Inn...
This is before they brought it home from Denver (to Omaha)
Ron picked "BOJAC" for the license plates to pay homage to Uncle Bo and Grandpa Jack, the previous to owners of the truck.
Pretty well loaded, 4.0 automatic, push button 4wd, color matched topper, alloy wheels etc. While not really babied, it is pretty clean. Not sure what it has on it right now but had about 67,000 miles on it when Ron brought it home.
The engine is still painted gray!
The two sister ships meet.
That first year (2021) he convoyed with me to Badlands Offroad Park near Attica Indiana for the TRS Roundup. It even got to represent gen 2 Rangers in the in the TRS Ranger generation lineup next to my '85 which I thought was pretty cool.
But the maiden voyage was rough. It of course drove beautifully on the highway and really did quite impressive in 2wd for most of the trailride. We were just kinda putzing around a open play area and he was following me, We went down, around some trees and came back up a hill, I look back and he is gone. I radio how he was and he said he has a problem. Turned out the t-case shift motor did the typical t-case shift motor thing and didn't work. We were in loose sand and couldn't get up the hill so he back back down to get a run for it and slid off the side, it was pretty scary. Oliver was a asleep in the passenger seat at the time.
I didn't get a pic of the recovery, Jim tied TRS2 on the front to anchor it to keep it from turning and falling farther off the edge while Bobby winched it from behind and pulled it out.
Bobby and Rocky checking out the operation (or the lack thereof) of the t-case motor.
Back at camp Ron and Oliver dug into it and made sure it was getting power and was actually the shift motor.
The bumper did kind of get rearranged a little during the recovery. Ron got it a lot straighter there with a jack.
As an aside I snagged my spare wheel from this truck before we left, I mentioned to Ron it had a unaturally perfect bumper which he snagged. I still have no idea how the bumpers and wheels survived so nice compared to the rest of it.
Time to head home:
Two high rollers at the Hampton Inn...
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