Ab_Reed
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2025
- Messages
- 55
- City
- New England
- Vehicle Year
- 1996
- Engine
- 3.0 V6
- Transmission
- Manual
- Total Drop
- 3"f 5"r
I will soon be the owner of a well used, slightly abused 1996 2wd 3.0l 5 speed Sapphire blue/sliver 2 tone XLT super cab. I've always wanted to own a mini truck, have always had full size. I'm excited to have a manual vehicle back in my life. I race motocross for fun and I'm trying to keep the miles down on my 2021 Tundra so the ranger will be my commuter truck and track practice day rig and wherever else id like to take it.
I dont have anything wild planned for it. 3/5 drop, new shocks. It needs new headlights because they're faded, an upper ball joint and a right front brake line. And new lower exterior window trim. The Interior needs a good cleaning, previous owner was a smoker. Needs a headliner which ill look for a color to match the exterior paint. In the future id like to put in bucket seats and a center console from a newer ranger. Seems like everything will fit up to 2011. Also the rug has a hole in in so will go with vinyl because of al the dirt. It also needs a new cluster, for some odd reason mine doesn't have a tach, what years can I swap in, and will I need to wire something to make the tach work? Then after it's good and road worthy a set of wheels.
I don't think I'll ever get this far with it, but I've seen newer front ends on the older trucks and it looks good, I'm assuming its a direct swap? Fenders, hood, grill front bumper and headlights? Or do I need a core support too?
Any help or suggestion are always welcome! I've been doing my best to search about everything before I made an account.
I dont have anything wild planned for it. 3/5 drop, new shocks. It needs new headlights because they're faded, an upper ball joint and a right front brake line. And new lower exterior window trim. The Interior needs a good cleaning, previous owner was a smoker. Needs a headliner which ill look for a color to match the exterior paint. In the future id like to put in bucket seats and a center console from a newer ranger. Seems like everything will fit up to 2011. Also the rug has a hole in in so will go with vinyl because of al the dirt. It also needs a new cluster, for some odd reason mine doesn't have a tach, what years can I swap in, and will I need to wire something to make the tach work? Then after it's good and road worthy a set of wheels.
I don't think I'll ever get this far with it, but I've seen newer front ends on the older trucks and it looks good, I'm assuming its a direct swap? Fenders, hood, grill front bumper and headlights? Or do I need a core support too?
Any help or suggestion are always welcome! I've been doing my best to search about everything before I made an account.
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