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[djk]

Hey everyone, my name is david, i'm from wisconsin, i've been looking around this site for the past few weeks and decided to join. I'm young seeing as i got my liscence and truck this past august. My father and i went searching for a truck with character and we found one. An 88' ford ranger 5spd 2.9 ltr. high lifter edition. It has a pushbutton 4 wheel drive system with manual locking hubs. The roll bar on it was factory installed and it actually has the ford logo on it. He wanted 1,500$ for it with the stereo system, but talked him down to 800 with an inspection from a mechanic my dad knows. The problem was the front end. The tie rods where shot, and so were the tires. There's a nice deck(you'll see it in the pics) with a 760w pioneer amp with a 12' pioneer sub. So i've had this truck for the past 4 months and this is the work we've done so far.

All done at home
Replaced tie rods
Replaced cluth(blew it out)
Spark plugs
replaced heater core
Replaced starter and solenoid
Replaced u-joints
Reconfigured stereo system(installed poorly when we bought it)
New front tires

Sorry to rant on but i want to kind of explain some of the repairs. I had to replace the rear u-joints because there was a u-joint failure while going down the road and it blew out the yoke of the rear sub-driveshaft. So the driveshaft was repaired in shop and we installed everything else. We had to replace the clutch because i did some off-roading and it heated up and went. i don't really know how that happened. but all the work for that was done at a friends house that had all the proper tools. In total the cost of that was 200 so it wasn't to bad.

Well sorry for the long post. I love my ranger and can't wait to be apart of this awsome forum. I will post pic's once you guys let me know how to . thanks

 

[Mark_88]

Welcome to TRS David~!

I can only see the one pic from your avatar, but I can tell it's similar to my 88...if you have more pics they'd be appreciated...

We like pictures...

 

[jhammel85]

Sounds like you have an STX? Lucky! Welcome to the boards man

 

[pineapplesoymilk]

Welcome to the forum, any suspension plans for it?

 

[84stealthranger]

moarrr pics and welcome to trs

 

[xkotyx]

welcome to trs! those first repairs can be a pain, but they are so worth it in the long run. im grateful for having a fix up truck as my first vehicle. with nobody around who knew much about vehicle, its been a great learning experience. come a long way!

good luck with the truck! it wont treat you wrong!

 

[djk]

Thanks for the warm welcome,yes it's an stx and well i have a 1.5 lift on it now that came with it, but i don't know.

i want to get some pictures up on here but i don't know how. Can someone let me know how?

 

[MountainMike]

Yep, here you go;

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82034

Looking forward to seeing the truck!

 

[Mac]

Hey David, Welcome from Stevens Point! There are quite a few of us right in this area. Lots of good people and info here.
Dave of the Nord

 

[djk]

Thankz mountain mike. Here's some pictures of the beast.

oh and it does have a cherry bomb, forgot to mention that

 

[jhammel85]

Cool! Not bad at all. I really like the seats and the center console...A lot!

Whats with the label on the HVAC controls? I always have mine on heat / vent

 

[djk]

Thanks man. Ya i like it too, but the center console is quite wobbly, i guess that's another project waiting to be done.

It pretty much says that if i want heat i have to keep it on vent heat. haha. i also don't have AC but that's what opening your windows are for!

 

[MountainMike]

You're welcome. Nice looking rig you have there!

 

[Mark_88]

Oh, much~o nice~o...I like the bumpers...

 

[djk]

Thanks guys.

Ya almost every where i go i get compliments on the bumpers. They give me a feeling of security haha.