My 91 Ranger the stRanger

[86MUDRCJ]

^^this

 

[Grunizzle]

V8 swap? Haha i still need to get this out of the garage! I dont see that for a while, I still need to build a tube bed, sliders, bumper and look into some seats w/ harnesses and what not.

Todays update. My tube bender came in this afternoon so I spent most of the day putting it together. I have a 1.75 die for it. I just bent one piece to test it out and it works great! I need to paint it up tomorrow morning to finish it up. I also cut the fenders on the passenger side today, one fender left to do tomorrow.
Also tomorrow I am going to build my tranny x member and cut off the carrier bearing x member. Hopefully at the end of the day when the grinder dust settles the transfercases will be back in the truck and it will be ready for driveshafts.

 

[hockeyryan]

looks sweet man. cant wait to see it finished

 

[escort_gts]

Did a miss the post, what kind of bender is that?

Truck looks good.

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[Grunizzle]

It's a rouge alpha bender. I ordered it off pirate, works pretty slick. With pirate and military discount it was 670 shipped. Then you just buy the $80 HF ram. It requires welding to put together but it was easy and seems very well made. I'm going to weld casters to the bottom

 

[escort_gts]

Did that price include the die?

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[Grunizzle]

Yeah that's die included. An you don't need to mount it in the floor

 

[escort_gts]

Wow. I'm need to check into one.

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[Grunizzle]

Yeah it's a pretty good deal. The company is rouge fabrication and they have a pirate thread in the vendors under tools. I can make a video I it working sometime if there is interest

 

[Grunizzle]

Ok I got the truck out of the garage and down the road tonight! The doubler fought the whole way to get installed. First the cases were leaking after I filled them up, then the under body needed trimming and a major BFH session to get in it. Then the shifter didnt line up so I had to hack it apart and make it work. Bled the brakes, got my drive shafts, and shes smooth down the road. Well mostly lol. It pulls a little to the right but I am going to try and tweak that tomorrow. The gas gauge works also! I still need to get a longer speedo cable, build the doubler support and get straps for the front axle ujoint yoke.

Anyone know what straps or ubolts I need on my front axle yoke?
Also I solid mounted my tranny x member to the frame. Its a harsher ride because I feel a lot more vibes, any issues with doing this?

I ordered the ruff stuff x member kit but they forgot the mounting tabs. This is the second time they have left itemsout of my order...

ok the pics. It was dark when I flexed it out, but all my clearences are good. Cant wait to try double low 4x tomorrow!

 

[wizkid00104]

That looks awesome!!!


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[PlumCrazy]

My trans crossmember is bolted right to the frame as well. 40k with no issues. Thats how all the 95+(at least 4x4 anyway) crossmembers are.

 

[Grunizzle]

Yeah that's what I figured its ok. I actually used part of your old ttb crossmember I had in my new crossmember. It just feels a lot harsher and I'm not sure why. Is it possible I stuffed the tranny to far up when I made the x member?

 

[Kyle M.]

If you have a soft tranny mount in there, no problem. Just gotta give it room to move.


Truck looks bad ass dude.

 

[PlumCrazy]

Haha. Thought that mount in the middle looked like something I would do.lol

-PlumCrazy