ForOffRoadDriving's 94 Ranger Build

[WNY964x4]

lookin nice guys! yeah, the 597 is semi auto with a 10 round clip, but i usually only load 5 into it because these guns have a tendancy to jam due to a poor magazine design. i wish butler creek would make a high capacity magazine that ACTUALLY WORKED! remington has released 3 different magazines that were supposed to work better than the orignial, but they still occasionally jam. i gave a haha when i read right handed, left eye dominant because im the same way and im always getting shit from my friends about it. "either wear an eyepatch or learn to shoot left handed" is what they tell me.

yea , i shoot all my guns left handed , but the problem is they were both bought for right handed people then passed down to me

 

[TheTopher]

Bummer about the truck dude. Sounds like you've got my temper...too busy throwing tools across the neighbors yard to figure out simple stuff like the battery wire being loose. Then the lady starts yelling at you to calm down which makes it worse...good times

 

[ForOffRoadDriving]

it just keeps getting better today. my buddy that i work with left to got to lunch and didnt even make it 1/4 mile away from work and the belt tensioner on his focus let go and took out the belt, the idler pulley and chopped his power steering line! i hate black friday more than ever now!

 

[TheTopher]

Damn man, sounds like you walked under a ladder and through a mirror in order to chase a black cat that was thirteen years old... Not sure where it'd fit but add opening an umbrella inside the house somewhere in that sentence for me, if ya don't mind.

 

[ForOffRoadDriving]

terra called and said shes bringing beers and hanging out in the garage with me tonight. its a good thing too cause i might need an extra mouth to swear it back into working order. im going to go home and start a fire in the wood stove, sweep the floor off, get the truck into the garage some how, then start checking the obvious (fuel, spark, air, then go from there).

 

[WNY964x4]

here is my stepdads .22 , its a Stevens Model 86C , Government Issue Training Rifle , it's been sitting in our garage for 15 - 20 years , the only reason he has it is because it is the one he used in rifle club in high school in 1960. ( I cleaned it tonight for the first time since he got it home , it sat in the same spot untouched for 15 - 20 years , and it needed the cleaning )


and sorry to hear about your luck man

 

[ForOffRoadDriving]

thats a nice gun, i had a stevens 20 ga., but it wasnt well cared for and after disassembling it i was afraid to shoot it so now it sits in the basement as an intimidating club. well im going home for the night, hopefully things will turn around for me, i dont want to have one of those weeks where everything i touch turns to crap.

 

[ForOffRoadDriving]

well its got no spark at the coil and i checked the ignition fuse and its not blown, so i guess im looking at the ignition control module and the pick up module in the distributor. it didnt take me much more than 20mins to diagnose it, but i spent at least 2 hours going through haynes and chilton manuals and checking connections and back probing connectors. here it is sitting in the garage, dirtier than i ve ever gotten it by having fun (i knew i should have screwed karls mud flaps back on!)

 

[Downey]

glad you got it figured out man

 

[out cast]

Lovin the truck bro! Comin along nicely...

Sorry to hear about your black friday mishaps...

 

[TheTopher]

If I remember right the 94+ 3.0 motors were notorious for the cam sensor going bad and causing no spark. Anybody with a better memory please feel free to correct me... I know Wicked_sludge has talked about it many times. I'm not sure if this would really even be an issue with a rebuilt motor.

 

[ForOffRoadDriving]

im aware of the cam shaft sensor issue, but this one is still has a distributor so it has a pick up module in the back of the dist. that reads gaps in the reluctor to send signal to the igniton control module which then sends power to the coil and through the wires to the plugs and then bang! im hoping that one of these sensors are bad because we all know its easier to change a part then to use a test light and voltmeter for hours to find the problem.

 

[idriveafordranger94]

Are those tires 31's? Any rubbing issues?

 

[ForOffRoadDriving]

thumper has got skyjacker leveling coils with 1/2 skyjacker coil spring spacers and im currently running 30x9.50x15 mud terrains on 15" cragar soft 8s, no rubbing even when touching bump stops.

 

[ForOffRoadDriving]

well i finally got the spark problem solved, now i just have to go home and install the new parts. After some guidance from my friend Brian, we found that not only did i not have any spark at the coil, but we also had so signal at the fuel injector connectors, so that narrowed it down to the igniton pick up module in the distributor. those of you who have read through the entire build should recall the oil leak i had and that i pulled the distributor off from the parts truck and removed the drive gear so that i could hook up a drill to the top of it and simulate running oil pressure. the parts truck did run before i got my hands on it, so all i had to do was find the distributor. i hid it in the back room, in a zip lock bag (i must have been thinking about keeping spare parts clean when i stashed it) so all i had to do now was swap the gears over. we swapped the gear out, put it back into the truck, crossed our fingers, and turned the key......... VROOOMMMMM! problem solved, almost.. since we swapped the gear off the new distributor onto the old distributor to make it run but had chipped a tooth, we now needed to swap it back so that i could warranty it and get a new one. the pictures and captions in the haynes manual make it look too easy, but there is no mention of the gears hole and the hole in the dist. shaft being drilled off center and on an angle. luckily since brian has been an ASE certified mechanic for 20+ years he already knew about this little trick and everything went as it should (except for the broken gear thing, it happened because the puller slipped while it was under pressure). so tonight im going to put in the new dist. and re-time it and everything should be good to go, then i just need to figure out this short in my reverse circuit that keeps causing the fuse to pop, which causes me to loose my turn signals. as long as i dont use reverse during any of my trips i can keep the use of my turnsignals, but as soon as i click reverse the voltage gauge drops down around 10v and the fuse pops, then the voltage returns to 14.2v.