What did you do to your Ranger today? (Part Deux!)

[Curious Hound]

I haven't done a damn thing to my truck in months. I really need to do my spring maintenance on it before the trip to Attica, IN next week.

And then do fall maintenance when you get home.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I know... Spring maintenance in September. WTH Gump?????

 

[sgtsandman]

I need to get the rear axle gear oil changed out in the 2011 before I have to start spending money on fall maintenance for the fleet.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Today was a rest day, tomorrow will be a cookout day and some time with the GF. I’ll have Tues/Wednesday/Thursday for trying to tinker some more with the Ranger, pack for the trip, and whatever else I end up in.

I did, however, finally change the battery in my phone, so I won’t have to charge it constantly

 

[sgtsandman]

Today was a rest day, tomorrow will be a cookout day and some time with the GF. I’ll have Tues/Wednesday/Thursday for trying to tinker some more with the Ranger, pack for the trip, and whatever else I end up in.

I did, however, finally change the battery in my phone, so I won’t have to charge it constantly

I've done the phone battery change in mine twice now. The phone still works and does what I want it too. So it's cheaper to just replace the battery and the case every few years than just get another phone because the battery is giving out. I'm out, may $75 for two batteries and a case now? Better than $600+ for a phone.

 

[Bill]

I have an iphone 5S from 2014. The battery still lasts well over a day. The battery in my Kenwood TH-F6A I think I purchased in 2017 is now a paperweight with very light use.

 

[sgtsandman]

I have an iphone 5S from 2014. The battery still lasts well over a day. The battery in my Kenwood TH-F6A I think I purchased in 2017 is now a paperweight with very light use.

When I got my 6S, the 5 was no longer available in the memory size I wanted or I would have gotten the 5S instead.

 

[Bill]

When I got my 6S, the 5 was no longer available in the memory size I wanted or I would have gotten the 5S instead.

My 3GS quit right when the 6S came out. I took a look at figured that I had enough self-awareness about myself to know I would bend it, so I got the 5S. A few months later articles started appearing on the tech websites about people bending them when they had them in their pockets and sat down.

 

[sgtsandman]

My 3GS quit right when the 6S came out. I took a look at figured that I had enough self-awareness about myself to know I would bend it, so I got the 5S. A few months later articles started appearing on the tech websites about people bending them when they had them in their pockets and sat down.

This isn't the Plus, which is absolutely massive but it is bigger than the 5. I wanted as small of a phone as I could get that met the memory requirements. That being said, it doesn't go in my back pocket. It's either a cargo pocket or a coat pocket. And It stays covered in an Otterbox case unless it's going in the waterproof case on my bike. I'll leave it at that or I'm liable to jinx myself.

 

[Bill]

This isn't the Plus, which is absolutely massive but it is bigger than the 5. I wanted as small of a phone as I could get that met the memory requirements. That being said, it doesn't go in my back pocket. It's either a cargo pocket or a coat pocket. And It stays covered in an Otterbox case unless it's going in the waterproof case on my bike. I'll leave it at that or I'm liable to jinx myself.

One morning on a camping trip high up in the Sierra Nevada I decided to take a picture of the early morning sunlight lighting up the snow in a cirque. I walked along one edge of the cirque to get the best shot possible. As I was about to tap the shutter I dropped my iPhone and watched it bounce from rock to rock. As it bounced off each rock and spun to the next one I thought the phone was gone for good because if it didn't sustain damage it would surly be lost among the granite boulders never to be found. About 15 seconds went by that I didn't see the phone and I couldn't determine where it had stopped bouncing, I thought, "that's it, it's gone!" Then I saw the phone sliding down the steep ice and snow in the distance and slowly come to a stop about as close to the middle of the cirque as it could by chance. So, I climbed over the rocks to get it because I figured the worse thing that could happen is I would slide down the ice on my ass. The hike across the ice wasn't too back. The snow and ice was very grainy and not too wet and slippery because it was still early enough in the morning that the ice didn't start to melt and get slippery and slushy. As I walked up the the final few steps to the phone I though the screen would be cracked at the very least. I picked up the phone and inspected it. The only damage was a very small piece of rubber that came off the edge of the Otterbox. Then I looked up to plan my course back to the top of the ridge. The hike back up wasn't nearly as easy as getting down. Especially in the thin air somewhere between 10,500 and 11,000 feet. I've been a firm believer in the Otterbox since then.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I've done the phone battery change in mine twice now. The phone still works and does what I want it too. So it's cheaper to just replace the battery and the case every few years than just get another phone because the battery is giving out. I'm out, may $75 for two batteries and a case now? Better than $600+ for a phone.

This is battery replacement #2 for this phone. I do need a new case though, the charger port protector is gone. I went with a bolt-together “lunatik” case that is aluminum, rubber, and a thick hunk of Gorilla Glass for the screen protector. This phone was my upgrade from a 5s, I got a first gen SE with 128 gig. The 5s can no longer be activated at least in the states because it’s “not 5g compatible”. 6 is the first one officially compatible and the oldest they will let you activate.

I ended up getting the GF a 6+ when she needed a new phone the last time (she has a habit of destroying phones). The charger port finally went, I replaced it, lasted a couple months and quit charging again. I got it back at that point and haven’t done anything with it yet. It’s a huge phone. She went out and got an XS Max to replace it then. I’ve been getting her the armored cases for them, she destroyed two cases for the 6+ and 4 for the XS so far, but the phones have survived. At $20-25 a pop for cases, still cheaper than new phones.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Finally changed the oil in the '97 today, been I don't know how long (probably mentioned in this post somewhere... likely 7-10k) it's at almost 176k miles? or was it 186? I'll look later... Dang thing doesn't leak or burn any oil so I should keep better track of it than I do... Of course while pulling the filter off from the top (barely enough room for a big forearm to do this) I drained it so I made less mess then promptly dropped the filter into the drain pan making WAY MORE of a mess than I would have doing anything else... whatever...

Yesterday I fired up the ol '00 Explorer and drug the boat 4 miles to the Willamette river and screwed around, the ol sploder needs some love, there's oil leaking out of the screw plugging a hose on the PCV circuit and the valve cover gaskets are COOKED since it smokes off both exhaust manifolds... Hopefully I'll start working on the front suspension of the sploder this winter, maybe I'll pull the engine, pull the heads, hone and re ring the thing, put the headers I have on then set it back in... Annoyingly I left the battery switch on the boat on since July and the batteries fought eachother enough to discharge most of the way... almost said screw it but remembered I had one of the Optimas out of my F350 that wasn't completely screwed like the other Optima...oops, I'll put the deep cycles on the trickle charger tomorrow...

 

[Bgunner]

Beer featcher has been getting double duty lately. The GF's SUV has had a gas leak that was fixed once by the garage but blew out in another spot so the ranger has been old faithful getting us from point a to point b while we wait for parts for the garage to fix the new blow out.

A faithful vehicle is all I ask from it and it has been. But then again last year I only drove it 2800 miles. Best be faithful for those kind of miles. Almost hitting the 160,000 at this point. Only stranded me once with the new distributor drive gear pin shearing off but I think that was my fault by tightening the cap to tight.

 

[rubydist]

I experience more issues with vehicles that only get driven a few miles a year than I do with the ones that are daily drivers...

 

[sgtsandman]

I experience more issues with vehicles that only get driven a few miles a year than I do with the ones that are daily drivers...

I've seen similar. The backup/family vehicle gets driven at least every weekend but I've found alternating between the DD and the backup every other week works better.