sgtsandman
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- Joined
- Mar 11, 2017
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- Aliquippa
- State - Country
- PA - USA
- Vehicle Year
- 2019
- Vehicle
- Ford Ranger
- Drive
- 4WD
- Engine
- 2.3 EcoBoost
- Transmission
- Automatic
- Tire Size
- 265/70R17
- My credo
- Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Plan for it as best you can.
I’m going absolutely stir crazy not using my right arm, and then I was going slap happy stir crazy doing real estate at the desk and other paperwork things, so I went outside in the 75° sunny weather to fix the Grinch lights* on the Road Ranger. I had two of them.
One was the number five red light on the headache rack. It’s a high/low LED, parking light on low, and intermittent brake flasher on high. The low side wouldn’t work. I also had some incredibly sloppy wiring in that area from when I slammed the thing together before the nationals a couple years ago. I got the light working, and I cleaned up the incredibly sloppy wiring so now it’s only mildly sloppy wiring.
On the roof rack, I had two really cool rectangular flood/flasher lights. They’re white floods, white flashing floods, amber floods, amber flashing floods, or alternating Amber and White, etc.. I really love them, but the way you change the pattern is by flicking the on off quickly. Well, it seemed like every third or fourth time I went to use them, they got out of sequence, they weren’t doing the same thing. I got tired of that, and then the driver side outright died, so I just swapped them out with the regular old LED floods.
I also pulled the third axle wheel on the driver side. I’m hearing some funny noises and that’s the bearing that went out a couple times and damaged the spindle. I did a really good job of cleaning up the spindle & polishing it before I went to nationals last year, and I still assumed that was the problem. Nope. So now I’m thinking something may be scraping (very lightly) on the drum brakes on the second axle that I also did in a hurry before nationals last year. I’m thinking one of the springs that holds the brake shoes back may have come loose. Project for another day, but I am taking it down to the Georgia Tech show on Saturday. 20 mile round-trip.
*Grinch Light: The Grinch, in a moment of deceit, told Cindy Lou Who, "Why, my sweet little tot, there's a light on this tree that won't light on one side," as a way to steal her Christmas tree.
Just don't over do it and reverse the repair work they did on you. It stinks not being able to do stuff but it will pay off in the long run, as long as you're patient.