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TheUndeadRanger
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yeah thats how i see it, i used today (while the wife is still at her parent's) to reassemble the rear end and put the bed back on, sadly it got dark by the time i got back from my test run so the pics i took are basically worthless, but it does look nice with the 4 inch lift on the back. didn't have time to finish the front. and i asked around today while i was out paying bills and all that to see if i could find a ford 8.8 axle for cheaper than the one's i've found online. i found a couple, one is pretty banged up, one hub was driven on for about 300 ft by a deaf old man. and the other has been sitting for a long time, took almost an hour to dig the truck out enough to get a good look at it, but it USED to be a pre-runner of sorts. been in the back yard of some pack-rat's house for close to fifteen years. truck was built and raced in early 1996 (94 ranger) and rolled on the track, never driven again. its been pretty well stripped cosmetically and most of the motor and tranny components are gone minus a heater core and a couple loose pulleys. but the bed cage is still alright, a few hours with a wire brush and some spray paint should fix it up good. he doesn't want to sell it but he likes guns and i have serious guns. so i may get an 8.8 with 4.56 gears, a bed cage, and some shallow bucket seats, he's going to throw in some newer harnesses and covers, i have to re-pad the seats though. which is no biggy, i'm an amateur leather-worker and have wanted to try my hand at a cow-hide seat haha not sure if i wanna, his seat covers may be decent enough to leave alone.
but as for the wife... i drove down to her parent's earlier to see my daughter and drop off the wife's phone charger, she seems to think that i'm getting my ass back together and out of my truck for a while, so she may be coming home sometime soon *crossing my fingers* i could really use a good corona tonight though! better get it done with before she gets home haha (i had two alcoholic parents and now they're both gone and she seems to believe i'm turning into, well, them. but two beers a week won't do that to any normal person...)
but as for the wife... i drove down to her parent's earlier to see my daughter and drop off the wife's phone charger, she seems to think that i'm getting my ass back together and out of my truck for a while, so she may be coming home sometime soon *crossing my fingers* i could really use a good corona tonight though! better get it done with before she gets home haha (i had two alcoholic parents and now they're both gone and she seems to believe i'm turning into, well, them. but two beers a week won't do that to any normal person...)
