Just a "TOY"

[wildbill23c]

Ouch 4 transmissions, I think I would have thrown the truck away after the 1st. If the transmission can't hold up to towing the truck is useless to me. Sounds pretty common the new trucks though unfortunately. Don't understand it because my grandparents had a 1988 Ford F-250 4x4 460, 3 speed automatic and towed a 21' travel trailer all over the country, put well over 200,000 miles on the truck never had a transmission problem or any major mechanical failure for that matter, my aunt and uncle has the truck now and still drive it all over the place.

 

[Harley]

So here it is after the 2" body lift and the James Duff long arm kit... I will take better and more pics in a few days, as for now I am beat!!!

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that looks great!! how much lift did you see from the front kit?

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

My grandfather's 93 Ford Ranger A4LD had the external tranny cooler added when the tow package was put on and the transmission still failed in it twice, so the cooling isn't the whole problem, the transmission is just garbage.

Stay out of overdrive towing that trailer and you might be ok. After that 93 Ranger I refuse to even look at a ranger past the early 80's with an automatic transmission, seems after they added the electronics and the overdrive the transmissions went to crap. My 84 B2 had the TK-5 manual and it seems to pull pretty well even with oversize tires, can't wait to get the right size tires put back on it, that may give it even more of a power feel.

Your B2 looks really nice, and I'm sure you will get many years of use out of it. I really like my B2, even with all of its issues I toss around the idea of selling it when something goes wrong, but for some reason I just fix things as they happen and just keep driving it. I saved it from the wrecking yard, and by looking at it that's probably where it should have gone, but I drove it around when I first looked at it for about 45 minutes and it ran and drove great, so figured a little body damage here and there isn't gonna hurt it, eventually I plan on slowly fixing the damage and get it repainted but until then its my beater daily driver.

The dinky little factory tow package external cooler isn't worth it. There are two keys to keeping an a4ld healthy and that is to put as big of an external cooler as you can fit in the front and the other is regular fluid and filter changes - either every 30k miles or whenever the fluid shows the slightest sign of no longer being that classic ATF red/pink color.


But to the OP, that is a nice looking BII, wish mine looked that pretty! Keep up the good work!

 

[Phantom]

that looks great!! how much lift did you see from the front kit?

The James Duff kit didn't and any lift, just longer travel to front end... It has a 4"suspension lift with a 2"body lift... Sits really well... Unfortunately I have been so busy with work I haven't been able to do any wheelin.. As soon as it sees off road I will post new pics... And I sold the tent trailer decided to buy a short 5th wheel (21') to pull doubles with the super d...