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

[DRanger024]

Looks killer, looks great!

and, what is “snow”??

oh, I know the stuff I buy in a can at the Walmart to spray on the plastic Christmas tree, but how many cans are you thinking of pushing around?

Thank you sir! We get anywhere from 30-110 inches a year. It can be incredibly windy here though and of course my driveway faces the direction the weather comes from. We’ve had 5-6 foot tall drifts across the driveway in years past.

 

[Rick W]

Thank you sir! We get anywhere from 30-110 inches a year. It can be incredibly windy here though and of course my driveway faces the direction the weather comes from. We’ve had 5-6 foot tall drifts across the driveway in years past.

I want to make sure I understand. So you’re going to use that bulldozer to push your driveway to the other side of the house?

 

[SenorNoob]

If snow here ever got to a single foot, 1/2 our population would die.

 

[Curious Hound]

Gonna have to shovel this out of the way.

 

[SenorNoob]

I know that picture. Almost a foot of sun. LOL

 

[Rick W]

On a more serious note, here’s my chemical engineering laundry tip of the day (a.k.a. Rick’s tips):

I’m sure I’m not the only one gets my work clothes totally destroyed with solvents, Rustoleum, oil and who knows what. And no wife to throw it in front of (thank God).

When I wash the worst of the worst, I put in the regular amount of laundry soap, but I also shoot in about 2 or 3 tablespoons of dish soap (not dishwasher soap, the stuff you squirt in your sink for greasy dishes). It cuts the grease and solvents, and by using some of the regular laundry soap, the regular laundry soap knocks down the foam.

(If you ever squirted some regular dish soap into your dishwasher when you were out of dishwasher powder, and came back to find your kitchen full of foam, you know what I’m talking about.)

If the stuff is crazy contaminated, after I do the wash, I’ll just do a six minute wash with regular laundry soap. It all comes out fresh as a daisy.

If anybody wants to confront me on this, I’d be happy to step out on the patio and remove my Martha Stewart apron, and teach them who’s boss.

(no, not me)

 

[ElectraRider]

My boss uses almost a hole bottle of dawn in his washer for the greasy shop rags after I do equipment services.

 

[Roert42]

My wife buys generic brand Oxiclean. Seems to work pretty well.

The smell of gear oil is almost impossible to get rid of though.

 

[Rick W]

My wife buys generic brand Oxiclean. Seems to work pretty well.

The smell of gear oil is almost impossible to get rid of though.

your wife smells like gear oil? Cool

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Day ain't done yet but I survived running the gauntlet thru fort worth and feel like I completed a major accomplishment.

 

[ben_2_go]

Day ain't done yet but I survived running the gauntlet thru fort worth and feel like I completed a major accomplishment.

I went through Fort Worth, Texas once. I didn't come back that way by choice. That was 30+ years ago. I couldn't even imagine now.

 

[racsan]

put the winter tires on the ranger & the escape today, yes Im a bit early but it beats doing it when the better tires are needed.

 

[01WHTRNGR]

Just ordered a sub. Haven't messed with anything audio related in 18 months so really hoping I remember how.

 

[Rick W]

Says it all….

 

[sgtsandman]

I’m a little disappointed it seems as though my mpg has dropped by 5mpg with the 4.56 gears and suspension rebuild. At first I thought it was because I was running around on 34” swampers but this tank was purely driven on 32” MTs. No highway driving but the majority is 45-55mph backroads.

Anyone think this is normal or maybe I need to look for vacuum leaks? I just resealed intake top and bottom. It’s a 4.0ohv 5speed and 4.56s.

I think your year has a gear driven speedometer and odometer. If I’m correct, you need to change the gear to correct for the change in tire size. I don’t think you have to worry about the change in gear ratio, just the tires. So, that may be why your mpg is so low. The odometer is off and giving you a bad number to calculate your mpg.

Of course, that also means your speedometer is off and reading slower than you are actually traveling. If it is the factory gear for your original tires, that will be off by a large amount.

You could do math to figure out what the difference is between the old tire and the new one but that is a lot of work and the conversion would have to be done every time. Getting the correct gear, or at least one closer to being correct would be easier in the long run.

Going from the factory 29” tire to a 31” tire dropped my mpg by about 2-3. Yours is a bigger step but eric’s quote is probably more like what you should be seeing than the 12 you got.