Range 98 Build Thread 5.0

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Alrighty! Well I finally decided to do my build thread for my project. I know I asked pretty many questions on here so I wanted to put up my progress and show everyone the truck. I'm gonna do this in sections to make it a little easier for me to upload pics and all. So we here go....


The Day I brought it home


The terrible 3.0





The Truck is my 1998 ford ranger xlt 3.0 auto. Not a bad truck but pretty slow and still not that good on gas. Decided the 3.0 wasn't cutting it so I decided last spring to do the 5.0 Explorer Swap.

 

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First thing first new paint job! The black was scratched to crap and I never really liked plain blacked out trucks so my brother and I shot on some bright blue cobalt metallic with black accents. Here it is the first day out of our paintbooth.












The truck is sitting a little funny looking so my next step was going to lower it.

 

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Decided to lower the truck as much as possible without having to buy new suspension or anything. Loosened the torsion bars and removed the lift blocks from the rear end dropped me 2 1/2 inches in the rear and almost 4 in the front.





Pretty cheap way to do it but it worked and it sits much more aggressive I think.



The back sits a little bit lower than in this pic because its parked on my hill. but you can see the difference pretty well.