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

[holyford86]

More of the last few days than today, got the cab off my donor truck and onto the trailer and dragged into the backyard. It'll be cab number 3 for my supercharged truck, and hopefully the last one.

Now to gut the interior and assess fully, I know it needs floors but appears to be structurally sound, which is more than I can say for the cab currently on my truck.

 

[Maritime Drag Racing]

Had to order a new master battery shutoff. Went to start the Ranger for the first time since Sept 2024 yesterday and no power to anything. A few on/off clicks and testing across the poles with the multi-meter told me our 20 year old Moroso shutoff was toast. Gotta love Amazon though - ordered this one yesterday and it will be here tomorrow even though we're about as far east as you can get in Canada.

 

[superj]

I picked up 50 12x12 pavers and the wife and i laid them in the backyard. Maybe 50 next weekend and we will be done

 

[Rick W]

I picked up 50 12x12 pavers and the wife and i laid them in the backyard. Maybe 50 next weekend and we will be done

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The truck husbands show you the pavers in the back of the truck. The homemaker wives would show you a picture of the pavers laying in the yard.. it’s just the way it is

 

[Blmpkn]

After a couple weeks off from working on the thing I finally got back over to tinker with It for the day.

Couple frame patches finished up and got the leaf spring bushings installed. I was hoping to be able to bolt everything back together today and get it back on the ground.. but the frame needs another patch at the driver's side spring hanger which I totally forgot about so.. mabey next weekend.. oh well.. progress is progress!

 

[Betty White]

Just an oil change using OEM filter n oil.

 

[Saddle Tramp]

The truck husbands show you the pavers in the back of the truck. The homemaker wives would show you a picture of the pavers laying in the yard.. it’s just the way it is

I showed my homemaker wife your phrase of truth and she went all grammar nazi on it.

 

[Betty White]

somebody call the grammar police? Haha

 

[uglytruckling92]

Got down and checked around my ECM today to see if there was any visible issues. Ran into this broken line. Not sure what it is for though.

 

[uglytruckling92]

Got down and checked around my ECM today to see if there was any visible issues. Ran into this broken line. Not sure what it is for though. View attachment 128970

Also not sure what that black canister looking thing with a nipple in the background is. Not sure if something should be covering that or connected to it.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Got down and checked around my ECM today to see if there was any visible issues. Ran into this broken line. Not sure what it is for though. View attachment 128970

Those are vacuum lines for the HVAC

Also not sure what that black canister looking thing with a nipple in the background is. Not sure if something should be covering that or connected to it.

That is one of the valves that work part of the HVAC.

There is also a white line up by the ground wires that looks like it was chewed off or something. I’m not sure of the complete vacuum diagram for yours though as to what lines are supposed to go where

 

[uglytruckling92]

Those are vacuum lines for the HVAC


That is one of the valves that work part of the HVAC.

There is also a white line up by the ground wires that looks like it was chewed off or something. I’m not sure of the complete vacuum diagram for yours though as to what lines are supposed to go where

Thank you for the info! I'm wondering if that might be part of the reason that the previous owner removed the AC compressor completely.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Thank you for the info! I'm wondering if that might be part of the reason that the previous owner removed the AC compressor completely.

Maybe. The AC stuff isn’t exactly cheap so it would either be something went bad with the AC (leak or pump failure) and they decided to be cheap and tossed it or they thought something was bad because the controls were not working correctly

 

[Curious Hound]

Keep in mind, those vacuum lines are for the heat, also. The dampers (often called blend doors) in the ductwork are operated by vacuum. So, if you want proper heat and defrost control, that vacuum system must be operational.

 

[Rick W]

Time is closing in for Ford Nationals (gosh, I feel like I was just there last week), so I went around the truck to fix the dings and touchup the paint.

Right front fender was bent when I bought the truck, and in hindsight, I should’ve bought a clean one out of the scrapyard and replaced it, but each time I fix it a little bit better. I was surprised when I found out I could get a clean one for like $35. I think keeping the original fender, keeping the truck as original as possible, it’s always important. Plus, my fender has to be worth a whole lot more, I mean it has at least $150 of Bondo in it!

I dug out some of the old Bondo, some of it is pre-Rick Bondo, then loaded it up pretty good and shaped it with a 60 grit paper on my palm sander. Then I went down to 80, and then finally fine finished with 100 grit. The 100 grit was also a wet sand - I did it the exact same way, but I had a beer in my other hand.

I always chip up the very outside edge of the four rear fenders, when I’m leaning over to take stuff in and out, bumping the edge or just scraping it with my belt buckle. But that was a quick sand and touchup.

Every year one of the sequencing Amber turn signals act up, so I fixed that, and I finished up straightening the corners of the aluminum on the inside at the top where it’s been scuffing the pin assembly as I turn. Then I touched up the black. I cleaned the light assembly really well, for some reason that first coat of semi gloss black flaked off a little bit. I tried to scuff it up a little bit with a little wire brush before the latest coating.

and finally, the vinyl tread step I put on top of my air tank blew off at Highway speeds.

I had used the vinyl glue like when you glue down the vinyl floor tiles. The wind caught the edge. So I cleaned it all off and sanded it down, and I stuck down a new piece with E 6000. I still have to touch up the Silver, but that’s always the last thing I do all the way around the truck

somewhere I have one of those 6 foot or 8 foot long hose clamp ribbons. I may put a couple straps around the whole tank to hold it down, but I think it would also look cool. Project for another day.