Must have spare parts list?

[Curious Hound]

Assortment of fuses, extra relay, 8-12" of fuel line, hose clamps, zip ties, electrcal tape...

If driving a 2.9l, carry an extra one, plus 50 gallons of coolant.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Assortment of fuses, extra relay, 8-12" of fuel line, hose clamps, zip ties, electrcal tape...

If driving a 2.9l, carry an extra one, plus 50 gallons of coolant.

 

[Curious Hound]

i used to always carry tools and fluids in vehicles but i have not needed anything like that since i don't drive a jeep anymore.

That should be a meme out in the interweb land.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Would you prefer 2.9/4.0 instead?

I just carry a DS module, fuses, a couple relays and front wheel seals (and hub socket) and fluids. And I guess my Edelbrock carb tuning kit.

Sure you can just use water in the coolant but when you get home you have to drain and start over. Easier to carry a gallon of 50/50 that might keep you going etc.

Starter/ujoints/whatever... I figure if I need something I should in theory be able to limp to a parts store.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Would you prefer 2.9/4.0 instead?

No, that’s my usual argument when someone puts down the 2.9 is that a 4.0 is basically just a bored and stroked 2.9. But this @ericbphoto guy is one of those weird 3.0 lovers so that argument doesn’t work, but I also see his side of it an own a 3.0, so it’s just a whole mess…

 

[BroncLander]

I just like a good running, clean engine with good compression. Even if I do a V8 swap, I'm not looking for high horsepower, but good gas mileage, decent low end torque and a nice V8 growl. I just want to maintain cruising speed on hills. My 2.8 does NOT like hills at all. Not with the gearing and tire combo I have anyways

 

[superj]

get a 3.0. fun to drive and decent gas mileage.

 

[Ranger850]

get a 3.0. fun to drive and decent gas mileage.

All the HP of the 2.3 and the MPGs of a 5.0

 

[rusty ol ranger]

No, that’s my usual argument when someone puts down the 2.9 is that a 4.0 is basically just a bored and stroked 2.9. But this @ericbphoto guy is one of those weird 3.0 lovers so that argument doesn’t work, but I also see his side of it an own a 3.0, so it’s just a whole mess…

The 3.0 guys just get pissed that even when sucking down coolant, ticking like a sewing machine, and a blown FPR making it run pig rich a 2.9 can still hand one its ass.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

get a 3.0. fun to drive and decent gas mileage.

Make sure it matches your purse

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Just remember....

 

[tw205]

I quest this would fall into the category of carrying spare parts. My BII has a hatch from a rig with no exterior spare tire carrier. The interior type is just for a doughnut not a full size spare. I removed the rear seats and built a carrier inside at the seat mounting locations. It has the tire as well as a spare spindle , rotor, bearings and a hub. I can still fit two coolers in the back with additional room under the tire.

 

[BroncLander]

I quest this would fall into the category of carrying spare parts. My BII has a hatch from a rig with no exterior spare tire carrier. The interior type is just for a doughnut not a full size spare. I removed the rear seats and built a carrier inside at the seat mounting locations. It has the tire as well as a spare spindle , rotor, bearings and a hub. I can still fit two coolers in the back with additional room under the tire.

Hey I like this. Looks really nice. You could strap a good sealing bucket to that and do your laundry on the trails and it'd be done by the time you got back

 

[broncc]

Fire extinguisher! My commute takes me by at least 5 pits in the asphalt burnt from a car.

 

[Josh B]

I carry a fire extinguisher in the truck and and keep one at the house, got them both at estate sales. A 3lb in the truck and a 5lb in the house

When I first went to Nashville I worked at a temp place and was sent to help at a construction site, just an office clean-out and drywall, I think they did new doors too, I was just cleaning up and goofing around. There was a 10lb extinguisher there that just sat on the floor and got moved around from time to time. I asked once about it and he didn't know what they'd do.
One day late in the game he said get that thing out of here, so I put it in the trunk, took it home, and lugged it around for almost 20 years.
I was on a nature trail build of a walk bridge and got my shoulder messed up, and during recovering I did volunteer at a handicap and wheelchairs. The guy I was helping there once recharged extinguishers and one day at the house I drug that out and he looked it over good, banged on it awhile with a rubber mallet, turned it every which way shaking it around.
He reached the conclusion it was caked up in there and wouldn't work, it was almost 40 by then I guess

When I was moving back to Oklahoma and trying to clean the place up I had been living 8 years I kept wondering what to do with that fire extinguisher. Couldn't throw it into scrap metal, didn't want to throw it in the dump, wasn't sure what to do

I took it over the side of a slope below the house and pulled the pin, squeezed the lever and that thing spewed powder for ten minutes, maybe more, but I hated that it had such an ending