The Legacy of Whopper Jr

[86 slo-vo]

Nice tailgate lol.

 

[kroussinoffroad]

WOW before and after i can hardly believe it's the same truck.
seems like you got the steal as far as looks go. i'm sure it still has it's quirks but i'm sure the whopper had more and bigger one's

 

[Josh40601]

Can of red dulpicolor will fix the rear




Robert

Bumper is the worst. It's rotted Out pretty bad. Likely will put the chrome one from the donor truck and paint it to match the edges. I have a red tailgate, but the latch is broke. This one worked just fine, so it went on until I fix the red one

Nice tailgate

WOW before and after i can hardly believe it's the same truck.
seems like you got the steal as far as looks go. i'm sure it still has it's quirks but i'm sure the whopper had more and bigger one's

it's been a good amount of work though. The whopper truck was a pile. Plain and simple. I wouldn't say it was a steal, but definitely better potential.
Thanks for the complement buddy

 

[Josh40601]

Well Since Kristina got the new car, and D-Ranged is undergoing restoration/rebuild, I drive this everyday now. Where I capped the exhaust off behind the factory y-pipe is now leaking. I have 2 factory y-pipe cat setups, so one is going on this after I finish D. There is a slight miss, probably needs a tuneup.

Also went to put the latch assembly from Slovo's tail gate into the red tailgate and realized the whole bottom of the red gate is rotted. Looks like the black one will get that Krylon red treatment.

I also slapped on the Edge bed caps/rails from the donor truck and my old gen 3 tail lights and 3rd brake light.

 

[Josh40601]

Latest gas mileage check? 25.1

 

[03ranger30]

Good job! Hard to believe its the same truck

 

[Josh40601]

Thanks buddy! That's how I roll

 

[Josh40601]

Well, I am officially a citizen of KY now, and I will tell you why....

So Wednesday night I was working on D-Ranged out at the shop, which is about 30 miles from my house. On the way home, I kept hearing a scraping metal sound that sounded like the shoe springs broke inside the rear drums... I pulled over shortly after leaving the shop, looked under the rear end and saw the middle leaf in the driver side spring pack broke in half and turned making contact with the rear drum!

So what was I to do?? I laid on my back and used my legs to lift the bed of the truck up high enough to slide the broken spring back into where it came from. Then I drove it home.

The next day (yesterday) I had to drive 90 miles to pick up parts for my super duty after work, and I didn't want the spring to swing out again and cut a tire or brake line or something like that, so I simply took bailing wire and wrapped the leaf pack keeping the spring from sliding left or right. Then I took duct tape and wrapped it on top of the bailing wire so the wire wouldn't slide towards the rear of the truck defeating the purpose of it being there. Then I drove 200 miles yesterday with the bed loaded down...

I have officially became a member of the "white trash repairs" group and a proud resident of KY.

Don't worry, I have a new leaf pack at the shop, just didn't have time to install it. Wanted to share my ingenuity skills with you all and hope you got a chuckle out of it. I know I did.

 

[NEVERDONE86]

Just be glad u were able to throw a temp fix at it rather than call a tow truck. I carry the most random crap to do unexpected fixes and most times it works. I gotta say tho, the truck looks a hell of a lot better now without the rattle can paint!
Are there any future plans in the works to make this a large scale project?
Other than that its looking good! Congrats!

 

[Josh40601]

Keeping it running is the only real large scale project. We put about 60-70 miles a day on this truck that already has a hard 200k on it. So seeing how long we can keep it going is the real project.

Thanks for the compliment!

I have AAA so I usually don't worry about anything within 100 miles from the shop. I burned up AAA in San Diego. Yellow truck always broke down. Lol

 

[Bennybooster]

*golfclap



hahaha awesome

 

[Colin]

Well, I am officially a citizen of KY now, and I will tell you why....

So Wednesday night I was working on D-Ranged out at the shop, which is about 30 miles from my house. On the way home, I kept hearing a scraping metal sound that sounded like the shoe springs broke inside the rear drums... I pulled over shortly after leaving the shop, looked under the rear end and saw the middle leaf in the driver side spring pack broke in half and turned making contact with the rear drum!

So what was I to do?? I laid on my back and used my legs to lift the bed of the truck up high enough to slide the broken spring back into where it came from. Then I drove it home.

The next day (yesterday) I had to drive 90 miles to pick up parts for my super duty after work, and I didn't want the spring to swing out again and cut a tire or brake line or something like that, so I simply took bailing wire and wrapped the leaf pack keeping the spring from sliding left or right. Then I took duct tape and wrapped it on top of the bailing wire so the wire wouldn't slide towards the rear of the truck defeating the purpose of it being there. Then I drove 200 miles yesterday with the bed loaded down...

I have officially became a member of the "white trash repairs" group and a proud resident of KY.

Don't worry, I have a new leaf pack at the shop, just didn't have time to install it. Wanted to share my ingenuity skills with you all and hope you got a chuckle out of it. I know I did.

i just torched mine off


and that was like a year ago....... still not fixed


glad you're fixing yours though

 

[Josh40601]

My ghetto fix finally broke Monday. So I took the cut off wheel and cut the spring clamp thingy where I could slide the broken leaf out. Rides the same, just don't hear the annoying clunks from the leaf hitting the drum anymore.

Also painted the tail gate close enough red. Still racking up the miles likes its cool. Love this little truck!

 

[RangerSVT]

Hey josh, interested in a disk brake rear for Lil red? 373 with an LSD. I take it the 99 and 01 fenders are the same...?

SVT

 

[Josh40601]

99+ is the same fenders. I have 2000 fenders on the yellow truck (well had)

Sounds tempting, but I am more focused on keeping this one on the road now. It only makes money when it's being used, and I just put the rear end out of my parts truck in it not too long ago.

I still need to get that console and transmission off you though.