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Redoing my 1986 ranger


sohc86-06

April 2011 STOTM Winner
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Vehicle Year
1986 2wd ranger
Transmission
Automatic
well bought the truck as my 1st vecheical back in high school it had a v8 in it that was worn out so i replaced it with a 2.3 turbo untill that blew up then i had a good deal on a 302 so i swaped the 2.3 turbo out for 302 then i parked it as the truck was getting rough an the emssion test up hear in canada. So hear are some pics of my build so far

truck when i got her
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the truck in her glory
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then i finally started to work on her again ripping her right down

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bought a parts truck cheap

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swapping out the better parts

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then got busysanding her all down to bare metal

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then i primer her black so she did not surface rust as i was building my 94 306 ranger

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now she is off to the body shop

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more progress

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frame sand blasted

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more pics

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engine bay primed

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the power plant sitting in her new home

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more pics again

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Good job so far.
I noticed a shackle flip on the red truck, what happened to it in the later pics?

Richard
 
right now its sitting with a flip kit an the shackles back to stock thanks for the comments man
 

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