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Full size or another ranger? Desire or logic?


i do if they make them... just get a cab plus (ext cab) mazda b2300 (2.3l) thats what i have and she is GREAT and RELIABLE.

i got mine stock for $4,000 cash off craigslist



I looked and there are a lot less Mazda's on there. And it seems to be the same dilema because there are no ext 4 cylinders.
 
on where? What do you mean you can't find one? I did a quick search on craigslist and found several 2.3 ex's for sale. Did I miss something and your looking for 4wd? Ford for whatever reason, for that matter all of the big three stopped making 4wd 4cyl's a while ago which is STUPID but you definitely won't find one of those in that body style lol. If you wanna 4cyl 4wd compact truck that new you better like rice cause as far as I know nissan and 'yota are the only one's who still make them.
 
on where? What do you mean you can't find one? I did a quick search on craigslist and found several 2.3 ex's for sale. Did I miss something and your looking for 4wd? Ford for whatever reason, for that matter all of the big three stopped making 4wd 4cyl's a while ago which is STUPID but you definitely won't find one of those in that body style lol. If you wanna 4cyl 4wd compact truck that new you better like rice cause as far as I know nissan and 'yota are the only one's who still make them.


I have been unable to find any rangers or b2300 extended cabs in the 2.3 for years 2003-2007. Maybe they are very rare here in California.
 
I have been unable to find any rangers or b2300 extended cabs in the 2.3 for years 2003-2007. Maybe they are very rare here in California.

I don't think they ever where very common.

Probably because with the extra weight the 3.0 gets similar milage and has more oompf.
 
I'm saddled with a huge 4-door longbed pickup and not a day goes by that I didn't wish I was back in my shortbed 4x4 Ranger. My full-size gets better mileage in town than my Ranger did, and about the same on the highway, but I hate driving something everyday that's too long to fit in most parking downtown. I've been driving this aircraft carrier for 7 years--daily for much of it with occasional breaks when I don't have to take kids somewhere or haul something and can use a little shitbox car I keep around. A single guy, I would own a Ranger. You can set up a Ranger to tow. The payload of a Ranger is about the same as an F150--about 1,500#. I hauled firewood in a 6' Ranger bed just fine--just needed more trips. I carried my 900# garden tractor in the bed of my Ranger--just had to take the deck off and put it on the tailgate. I carried 4x8 sheets by placing boards in the pockets they provide for the purpose. I pulled a small travel trailer.

With a Ranger-sized gooseneck trailer, you could handle larger loads than a frame hitch can. That's my plan. I think a suitably modified Ranger can handle 8,000# on a gooseneck, which is the heaviest load I NEED to tow. The crewcab diesel is really only a convenience a couple of times a month now that most of my kids are in school most of the year. I'm itching to get back into a little truck. A Ranger, properly outfitted, is the best little truck there is and there is certainly no reason to pine for an F150. An F150 is a paper tiger in my opinion. If you want a truck that will carry stuff, make sure it has a full-floating axle. Otherwise, you might as well own a Ranger because that big bed on an F150 is easily overloaded. If you have a full floating 3/4-1 ton, you can't break the axle. You have four big spindle bearings holding the load instead of two little axle shaft bearing--which any semi-float has. I don't care what you put on a full-float--something else will break before the axle. I've seen lots of semifloats fail.

Keep the Ranger. Only move to a HD pickup if you need to.
 
I prefer driving a half ton to anything bigger. I would never replace mine as a dd with a 3/4 or 1 ton... and another Ranger would be worthless. It won't do any more than mine... and mine can't do what I need to haul. I would love to get a gooseneck car trailer for my '150, but hauling my 5-6000lb tractor (+ trailer) it does fine with a bumper pull... turn key.

Without getting into it any more than that, from what the OP is saying a stock Ranger sounds fine which is why I backed off the fullsize bandwagon. Two dirtbikes or a smallerish sized boat should be within a stock Rangers relm. My gasping 2.8 didn't care a bit about my old 400lb thumper in the back, anything newer with hp in the triple digits should get along fine with two... especially if the bikes were made in the past 30 years after they figured out they can use aluminum and plastic to make bike parts. :icon_idea:

My 7.5 has been abused and has been faultless. I have had been tripping over an Explorer 8.8 for 3 years and haven't had a valid excuse to put it in yet.
 

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