My 2009 Ranger XL, "Project Low Buck Truck"

[ghunt81]

Thought I'd put up a little blurb about my Ranger since I just started driving it and am proud of how well it came out.

So, for starters, I work at an engineering firm, and this truck was one of the old company trucks. They did a silent auction in April, I put in a bid of $801 on this truck and won it (apparently nobody wanted to touch it because it had a roached transmission). So it was just a basic XL, 4x4, 4.0 auto, extended cab, with 172K on it.

I towed the truck home and have been working on it since April. I'm bad about taking pictures when I'm working on stuff so I basically have none, but since purchase the truck has received a used 45K mile transmission, new radiator support, new brakes all around, new u-joints, fresh fluids, seat covers (the driver's seat had a rip in the cushion otherwise I wouldn't have gotten covers), Bushwacker fender flares, Bushwacker rail & tailgate caps, #1 torsion bars & pre-keys, 2" shackles, Rancho shocks, 15x8 American Racing Baja's with 32x11.50 Cooper Discoverer STT's on them, a cat back (Dynomax pipe with a Hooker turbo muffler), and an AEM Dryflow drop-in filter and airbox mod (cut out the "air horn" thing in the front of the airbox and replaced it with a 3.5" tube that pulls air from up in front of the radiator support).

So, about $3200 & a lot of elbow grease later this is the end result:

It fires right up, runs great, drives great, very happy with it! This is my first Ranger ever too, BTW.

 

[MrTachyon]

That's about as much money as I've put into my truck but yours looks a lot better than mine! Nice job!

 

[ghunt81]

Thanks! I feel like aside from the bigger tires and fender flares it's doesn't look like I did much...but I sure know I did. I've gotten quite a few compliments from some folks at work though. Can't go wrong with polished Bajas and mud tires on a Ranger