Replacing a cab on 88 ranger

[rangerluver88]

I rolled my 88 ranger on its roof yesterday and it has completely destroyed the cab. Nothing else has been damaged. Instead of junking my truck (since I already have more in it than I will get out of it by doing so) I have decided I want to replace the cab. Can anyone tell me how to go about doing this? As far as I understand all I really need to do is strip the interior from my cab and unbolt it from the front clip and remove the mounts and replace with another cab is this right? Any information will be greatly appreciated!

 

[wantaranger]

gonna have to unhook steering components and some wiring.. not alot of the inerior needs to be stripped

 

[rangerluver88]

gonna have to unhook steering components and some wiring.. not alot of the inerior needs to be stripped

Well I have another cab I'm going to take and put my interior in simply because I like my red interior lol. I'm going to take the dash carpet headliner seats and all. Is there anything else other than the wiring and unbolting the front clip and the mounts?

 

[wantaranger]

brake hoses are mounted to the firewall, that will need to be unhooked. when i took the cab off my donor b2 i didnt care so i went through the steering post, body mounts, wiring harness, brake lines all with a grinder with a cutting wheel

edit: oh and the throttle cable just un hooked from the manifold very easy to take off. and if you have an auto column shift then look on your firewall for the shifter linkage and pull off the cable that comes up from the transmission. but i gues if its an 88 your auto shifter would be on the floor.

 

[sparkey]

The front clip has to go with it cause it's spot welded to the cab

 

[rangerluver88]

The front clip has to go with it cause it's spot welded to the cab

Okay. On the donor cab I should be able to just drill out the spot welds at the front clip can't I?

 

[sparkey]

If the donar cab hasn't been recked it would be a lot easier just ot switch the hole thing than to drill the spot welds. I have an 88 as well that was wrecked but the the fenders were crunched but the cab wasn't hurt so I drilled the spot welds out and had a donar for the frontend thers a hole lot to line up that way

 

[adsm08]

Love the red interior. Won't ever replace it, might even pain the inside of a newer truck red if I ever buy one.

 

[Xandor]

Easyer to repacethe whole thing eh. I was wondering this very same thing. Wife rolled my BII and the cab is toast but the whole front end is perfect and I was wondering bout just changeing the cab.