Kyle M's Ranger Rebuild

[RangerSVT]

Broncograveyard has em, I think bc Broncos as well...


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[Josh40601]

Awesome. Know what I'm ordering next then!

 

[Kyle M.]

Mine were from the graveyard

 

[RangerSVT]

I already got a set, and were already modded for 60's When you order em, see if you can get
em in factory style that has the tracbar mount incorporated in the wedge, it'll make things easier and cheaper. I don't know if the graveyard's supply has em that way or not...
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[Josh40601]

Shit, I just thought you had to widen them a bit to fit the axle tube... Now I've got to go through this thread and find out what he did...

 

[Ford78]

If u didn't want to cut the wedges down Jamesduff has spacers that u could use to make it easyer.

 

[Josh40601]

If u didn't want to cut the wedges down Jamesduff has spacers that u could use to make it easyer.

Thanks dude!

 

[Kyle M.]

I didn't have to do anything to make em fit. I ended up making spacers for the radius arms so I could bolt em down tight.


Sorry, been out of the loop.


Also, I'm not going to be making the trip to harland, my ride backed out and I can't swing it alone. Bummer

 

[Kyle M.]

Going to the Badlands this weekend, trucks ready to rock. Gonna run Mission Impossible behind troys house....super geeked.

 

[Kyle M.]

So as you all know I went to the badlands this past weekend, what a great time. Hands down, best wheeling trip this year. We went down Friday, wheeled the park, went everywhere I pointed the truck, some spots I couldn't believe I made it.

Saturday we ran mission impossible, it was awesome. We didn't have a guide so we could do whatever we wanted. We ran the waterfall trail, the rocks behind troys house, and any other cool spot at could find.

Sunday we went back to the park and just messed around for a great end of the weekend.

I manage to get no real damage, the truck held together great. I do have some repairs to be done....bent the cage behind both doors on rocks, skid plate is up into my trans pan, shackles got is the way a lot, time to consider a 4 link rear a lot more, and I bent my front bumper on a tree(hit it hard, in the air...that bark rub was high up the tree...lol). Both front fenders are dented, Tie rod bent but that's about it. Again, great time. Here are a few pictures I took.

My damage, other side is the same cage wise, maybe a little worse

This one is funny, Greg was driving in, started lifting a tire, kept going them stopped, and what to me looked like he was backing up, I said wait, let me snap a pic so he poses....

I took the picture then, Greg calmly says, I'm going over.

I say, do you want to?

Greg, not particularly.

So then we all snap out of it and run over and help him back up....it was funny how calm he was and us not even considering. Haha

Here are a few randoms of everyone....

I do have more pics a video, just gotta get to a computer and upload it.

 

[RangerSVT]

Glad you had a good time. I'm surprised Gregg didn't meet you there, he's not that far from there. Hopefully this coming summer I can start making trips out there....

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[Bray D]

Looks killer Kyle. I still can't believe I haven't made it to MI yet.

 

[Kyle M.]

Glad you had a good time. I'm surprised Gregg didn't meet you there, he's not that far from there. Hopefully this coming summer I can start making trips out there....

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Let me know, sounds fun

Looks killer Kyle. I still can't believe I haven't made it to MI yet.

Thanks buddy! Yeah, I wasn't sure, but next time we go Ill let you know. A guy in our club knows Troy so we can go whenever as long as he is good with it.

 

[dhkonrad]

So as you all know I went to the badlands this past weekend, what a great time. Hands down, best wheeling trip this year. We went down Friday, wheeled the park, went everywhere I pointed the truck, some spots I couldn't believe I made it.

Saturday we ran mission impossible, it was awesome. We didn't have a guide so we could do whatever we wanted. We ran the waterfall trail, the rocks behind troys house, and any other cool spot at could find.

Sunday we went back to the park and just messed around for a great end of the weekend.

I manage to get no real damage, the truck held together great. I do have some repairs to be done....bent the cage behind both doors on rocks, skid plate is up into my trans pan, shackles got is the way a lot, time to consider a 4 link rear a lot more, and I bent my front bumper on a tree(hit it hard, in the air...that bark rub was high up the tree...lol). Both front fenders are dented, Tie rod bent but that's about it. Again, great time. Here are a few pictures I took.


My damage, other side is the same cage wise, maybe a little worse

Is that the lower door hinge that got messed up too? Is that going to be a problem, or do you even run doors anymore at all?

 

[railman]

Is that the lower door hinge that got messed up too? Is that going to be a problem, or do you even run doors anymore at all?

here is the last pic of his post....

as you can see, he has put his doors back on....

I am sure he tweaked them back into place with a good adjustable wrench....at least it is what I would do...

l8r, John