Helga, My 88 B2 Build...

[Boggin]

The fronts have already been trimmed, couldn't even steer with 34s without them hitting badly. Rears still need a small touch of trimming.

So driving in the rain earlier (Because that's what washington is like in august ) going around corners just putting along in 2nd about 1500 RPMs, slowly roll the throttle and it's spinning both tires and I'm goin sideways, took everything the 2.9 had to break em loose in 1st, 4.0 does it without thinking twice in 2nd and this tranny is higher geared. Here's a pic under the hood, still some wiring to organize but overall it's 98% done.

looks very sweet, congrats!

 

[Hahnsb2]

Drove to Hillsboro for my monday delivery today without any problems, nice to have power to cruise, hard to train myself to stop downshifting when I don't need to, it pulls most hills in 5th. Worked on covering up most of the wires and it's lookin a lot cleaner under the hood. Also took care of a couple exhaust leaks, I just can't stand exhaust leaks. Pic's a little dark but as you can see the wires are wrapped up nice and tidy.

Here's a glimpse of what's to come. 3" JD lift, home made extended arms I got from 84EB on B2.org for a pretty cheap (I'll beef em up a little since I've got a welder/time) and a 4.56 D35 pig.

 

[rickcdewitt]

hard to train myself to stop downshifting when I don't need to, it pulls most hills in 5th. 4.56......

4.56 will probably seem too low geared.cruising in 5th at 55 to get a reasonable rpm sucks.your trucks not going to like 65 or more.but oh well thats the tradeoff.

make sure you check the clearance on the drop bracket for the driver side to the steering linkage while turned. the reinforcement that goes forward to a non stock bolt hole hit the linkage at full stuff on my truck before i relieved it with a grinder(the tab that goes out of the pic to the right

 

[BlackBII]

Yeah, 4.56 on the highway kinda sucks, depending on your tire size of course..
You running 34"s?

I had 33's and 4.56 and a FM146, I was at nearly 3000rpm at 65-70mph or so(My speedo was way off, I was going off my girlfriends car riding next to me) and with a 2.9, that worked out pretty well, with the 4.0, I would think 34" and 4.56 should work quite nice at 65 or so

 

[rickcdewitt]

yeah that is if those 34" tires see much highway use. cheap 33" at's are what i run around on when the swamps aren't on.

now my isuzu p-u with factory 4.55's, 31's, and a sub-100 hp 4 wheezer feels fine at 70

 

[BlackBII]

yeah that is if those 34" tires see much highway use. cheap 33" at's are what i run around on when the swamps aren't on.

Depends on if he listens to radio or not, when I was running boggers on the highway, the only thing I could hear was the jets flying overhead when passing the air base

 

[rickcdewitt]

Depends on if he listens to radio or not, when I was running boggers on the highway, the only thing I could hear was the jets flying overhead when passing the air base

are you sure YOU weren't the bomber coming in for landing? LOL. thats what my ranger sounds like with the boggers on.i let a buddy go on a beer run with it and was surprised how loud it is coming in for a landing,er pulling up i mean. and yeah my stock stereo with 1.5 speakers working can't be heard,haha.

 

[Hahnsb2]

I'll be running 33s on the street. According to my calculations I'll be right around 2700 RPMs at 70, that's assuming they measure 1.5" short I'll try to find the tallest 33s I can.. 65 drops it to 2500, a better spot for a 4.0, I like to do 65-70 on the freeway so it should be alright. It drops it another 100 RPMs at the same speeds with 34s on. With my 31s and 4.10s I'm at 2600 RPMs at 70.

 

[rickcdewitt]

i'm at 2500rpm at 65 in overdrive,with 4.10 and 33's(31.5")

 

[engdept]

FYI, Maurice (mjones) '97 Ranger with the 4.0, M50D-R1, 4.56's, and 35's (actually 34.7) ran at about 2500 rpm at 75 mph. He got around 18 mph on the highway with that configuration.

Looks like it is coming together.

 

[Hahnsb2]

Boxed radius arm with 3/16 plate.

 

[danger88ranger]

Nice work.

 

[Dishtowel]

I like the beef man.

I worry about boxing stuff like that because: if you weld it 99.999% closed and get stuck in a puddle/swamp it will fill with water then when JackFrost comes to visit he bursts things. IF you drill a drain hole then earth/moss/corruption gets in and never seems to want to get out. These things may not apply to you, but I know they apply to me.

 

[Hahnsb2]

Nah the front is still open on the arms. Probably gonna spend the whole weekend fabbing shit with my buddy since labor day means everyone is everywhere and I want to kill the general public on normal days as it is. Going to attempt to re-make my tire carrier, got a TIB spindle and rotor I plan to modify for the pivot and we're prolly gonna make a bumper for his XJ.

 

[Hahnsb2]

Been too busy working on my friend's junk, like this bumper we (mostly me) made for his Heep, bottom tube is temporary until he gets a winch and we weld in a winch plate.

Started work on some sliders (you can see some of the 2x2" 3/16 wall tubing leaning on my rig) but really haven't had time to work on them since building the heep bumper and now in the middle of building a bumper on another friends toyota.