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- Feb 28, 2011
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1999
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Greetings,
By way of introduction I guess I should start off with how I found this forum. I’m a retired Navy Chief and I’d been half looking around for a ride that I could get my oldest son into and introduce him to trucks or cars. My best bud was recently getting ready to retire and had bought a new set of wheels which left him with a 1999 2wd Ranger XLT 3.0 5 speed that he had bought new.
Sitting around one afternoon solving the world’s problems with the help of some cold frosty beverages
, he complained that he had to fix the speedometer cable, get a tune up, fix the flat tire etc. etc. … before he could get rid of his truck and I was complaining that I couldn’t find a decent set of wheels for my boy.
He kind of looked at me and said “How much money you got in your pocket?”
I gave him the hairy eyeball, pulled out a fist full of change and said “$1.39”
He ran through the list of what was wrong with it saying he didn’t have the time to get it fixed (he pays folks to maintain his rides) and that it might be a good project or I could sell it. Then he pulled the title out and signed it over for $1.39!
After picking my jaw up off the ground, trying to refuse, etc. I ended up with the truck.
I’ve been wrenching on all my own rides for the past 30 years so I hit the internet one evening and did a search on speedometers because I had a feeling there was no “speedometer cable” which landed me here.
In 5 minutes I had my answer but then I started seeing “stuff”
.
Bucket seats, center console, LED dash lights, OVERHEAD console………. At 0230 the wife comes out “Are you coming to bed today?”
So now I’m bitten by the truck bug (again).
The VSS is replaced and speedo is fixed.
There is an instrument cluster with a tach on hold.
I’ve got a bud that is going to part out a 98’ Mountaineer who’s giving me dibbs on the buckets, center and overhead consoles.
Boy Wonder (my oldest) has actually put down his Game Boy and helped me change the VSS, air filter, spark plugs, wires, EGR valve, SeaFoam’d the motor, plug the flat and has actually gotten grease under his finger nails
. He just doesn’t know it’s going to be his truck yet 
.
So the truck is stock, body straight, no rust, the motor runs nice, tranny shifts the way it was designed
What would you do for driveway mods on a DD truck?
Cheers ,
Doc
By way of introduction I guess I should start off with how I found this forum. I’m a retired Navy Chief and I’d been half looking around for a ride that I could get my oldest son into and introduce him to trucks or cars. My best bud was recently getting ready to retire and had bought a new set of wheels which left him with a 1999 2wd Ranger XLT 3.0 5 speed that he had bought new.
Sitting around one afternoon solving the world’s problems with the help of some cold frosty beverages
, he complained that he had to fix the speedometer cable, get a tune up, fix the flat tire etc. etc. … before he could get rid of his truck and I was complaining that I couldn’t find a decent set of wheels for my boy.He kind of looked at me and said “How much money you got in your pocket?”
I gave him the hairy eyeball, pulled out a fist full of change and said “$1.39”
He ran through the list of what was wrong with it saying he didn’t have the time to get it fixed (he pays folks to maintain his rides) and that it might be a good project or I could sell it. Then he pulled the title out and signed it over for $1.39!
After picking my jaw up off the ground, trying to refuse, etc. I ended up with the truck.
I’ve been wrenching on all my own rides for the past 30 years so I hit the internet one evening and did a search on speedometers because I had a feeling there was no “speedometer cable” which landed me here.
In 5 minutes I had my answer but then I started seeing “stuff”
. Bucket seats, center console, LED dash lights, OVERHEAD console………. At 0230 the wife comes out “Are you coming to bed today?”
So now I’m bitten by the truck bug (again).
The VSS is replaced and speedo is fixed.
There is an instrument cluster with a tach on hold.
I’ve got a bud that is going to part out a 98’ Mountaineer who’s giving me dibbs on the buckets, center and overhead consoles.
Boy Wonder (my oldest) has actually put down his Game Boy and helped me change the VSS, air filter, spark plugs, wires, EGR valve, SeaFoam’d the motor, plug the flat and has actually gotten grease under his finger nails
. He just doesn’t know it’s going to be his truck yet .So the truck is stock, body straight, no rust, the motor runs nice, tranny shifts the way it was designed
What would you do for driveway mods on a DD truck?
Cheers
,Doc
