dangerranger1983 build

[85_Ranger4x4]

Happy birthday! I just turned 22 in September, its scary how fast times goes by

Just wait until you are staring down the barrel of 30... 28 and holding right now.

 

[bobbywalter]

on the shorter trucks usually we make a tri point or diagonal mount k member with full width axles. i have tried a setup similar to danger rangers....errrr I should say THE REAL DANGER RANGER!! after studying his for a long time. it hangs from the top rails for the most part...


that single pic does not give me enough data to to see if its workable.

if you had an eb axle or older leaf 30 it looks like it would work with a limit strap on the drivers side. just have to use the small diameter shaft from a jeep. i used those for years and years till i went to 60's for clearance reasons when running a full width ford t case.

i usually mitigate the extreme issue by cocking the drive train...but some people have to have the engine appear to be square and center and all that dumb shit. you show them they aren't center to begin with and they still freak out fukkin idiots sometimes...

theres options all around and can be easy to do in combination...just take a little time.

where is your trans member located in reference to the stock holes?

 

[bobbywalter]

Truck is doing good. Puts out better heat then the old 2.8. But you can tell when she isn't quite warmed up a you get heat, then cold, heat then cold for a few minutes after the first heat. Still getting about 8 mpg but need to get the money and time to get the the transmission cross member redone and a front driveshaft on her, that's my end of the year goal i hope to meet.


I will say the pressuring pump didn't want to turn easily due to it makes my belt want to squeak on startup, this I'd backed up by sometimes turning the wheel on dry pavement it makes it chirp. Also got on the skinny pedal once and had just a hint of blue smoke come from under the hood, not sure if it was from my breather due to it's not hooked to anything and just vents under the hood. And i still haven't for to figuring out the hanging idle issue but i want to still say it's my secondaries opening and hanging open. It also idles when it wants to. Sometimes a bit high, sometimes normal and sometimes not at all, even when fully warmed up. Its idles increases on rolling right turns and idles high on slight inclines.

But between a baby on the way, moving in with the fiancee soon, and all the other things, I'm a bit of a nervous wreck. Just making it day to day is the way life is right now.

But i will keep updated as stuff progress and if I do anything to the truck, I'm never one to leave out what i have done to the truck.

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the heat thing is bad...may be related to the economy....



something is not right at all with your engines state of tune.


if my truck was getting 8mpg as a matter of course on less then 44 in tires i would shoot it in the face and roll it off a cliff. then i would climb down there and shoot it again....cut its nuts off.. piss on it..and burn it.

i used to bitch about 9-12 mpg on 35's with a heavy foot and 1-200 foot of ladders on it and tools/compressors and shit stacked to the rails...

fawk i got 19 pussy footing 60-65 mph on 37's....13-14's town driving like a teenager. on a wore the fawk out 6.5 and reeling 4l80 and wasted 208..

i miss doing smokey donuts and passing cars easily that my mild 302 did so well...but i dont miss feeding that hugry lil fawker.

do you have a lil 4cyl gas squeezer? i strongly suggest to get one if you dont.

 

[dangerranger83]

My Trans cross member is on the same place as the factory setup, got lucky there i guess. The heating up thing isn't a big issue it blows warm air and stats that way a couple of minutes after the first thing of warm air. I want to get a different carb, an edlebrock for sure if i buy new. But won't be able to do that till well into next year.

I do enjoy driving the truck though, i make people think twice about passing me when they do try, the look on their faces are priceless but my finances it's more of a pissed off look doing 65 in a 30.

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[dangerranger83]

And it use to have a 4 cylinder engine...as a matter of fact two. First was carbed, next was fi, then got the 2.8 that got 10mpg and now a 5.0 that gets 8mpg city 14mpg highway.

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[bobbywalter]

i dont remeber the cam

 

[bobbywalter]

are you sure your getting 8 mpg?


14 is pretty good hiway....16 i would expect though at 65 or so.

generally i see 12-14 town with a properly running 302 and a tiny truck like yours town....your way out of wack.


on edit....12-14 town is with it tuned towards town driving with the right carb...you get great hiway or great town ime with a carb depending on how its biased


8 mpg unless you never shut it off and idle it all the time is damaging your engine or you need rear tires every week.

from a standing stop with your foot off the brake will its do donuts on dry ground when you floor it? 0-60 under 7 seconds?

 

[dangerranger83]

It's a 91 grand Marquis block with a stock mustang ho cam put in her. I can't really go past half throttle before the high idle issue happens that goes away when i turn off then restart the engine, haven't figured the problem out with that yet. I havent done burn outs, can afford new tires or a new rear end. 0-60 doesn't take long, i need to get an app for my phone to measure that for me. To be honest, I'm not hard on the skinny pedal, i have my foot resting on it driving in town and I'm doing 40mph.

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[dangerranger83]

Found the problem i having with the carb. I would think i would be running lean though but it's not spraying out if both the venturis, it's dripping out of the one that had the rust on the butterfly.

So the carb needs rebuilt, or at least a new set of venturis put in it but due to a lack of money, its going to have to stay that way or if i can find a can fire next to nothing...i don't know right now.

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[dangerranger83]

Here's a picture of me cracking open the throttle and the engine going to about 2500 rpm. The inside of the non rusted butterfly venturi is wet but not from the fuel of the accelerator pump. So it might be working but still not correctly. The truck loves doing 55-65mph all day and does good mileage too at those speeds.

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[dangerranger83]

I just relized i had an idiot attack. I'm running a dual plane intake and there no way that the engine would idle with only the driverside cylinders running and not the passenger side ones. Plus at idle all the cylinders on the passenger side are hit and running so it's the venturi on the driver side that is dumping fuel into the engine killing my mileage in town. Checked everything earlier and did adjustments but ended up everything was back to where it was and now the truck floods very easy on full choke for no reason vs it ran fine on it driving down the street. Not sure if it's the weather or what but hopefully it drives smoothly for Thanksgiving tomorrow.

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[85_Ranger4x4]

Actually being a dual plane intake one side of the carb feeds the inside two cylinders on one side and the outside cylinders on the other side of the engine. The side of the carb feeds what is left (the other two inside cylinders and the other two outside cylinders)

 

[dangerranger83]

All cylinders are getting hot, the headers confirm that one but some are getting to much fuel and giving me a very rich exhaust smell and is the driver side front venturi doing it. I'll try to get a video of what i saw and that side wasn't giving a spray so it may be all gunked up and ports clogged to wetter the fuel is just gathering to drip into the intake. May see what a can of seafoam will do to herand if that helps. I'm also running two fuel filters, one before the fuel pump and one before the carb.

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[dangerranger83]

Also my starter gear sometimes doesn't keep on the flywheel when cranking and the engine starts to fire over and spins rapidly. I have to wait for it to stop spinning before trying to start again. Is there a simple way to fix this and is it a spacing issue?

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[Rowdy Fitzgerald]

As far as having to wait for the starter or engine to stop there isn't anything you can do as far as I know. Once you fix the carb issue she'll start on the first spin so it won't be a issue.