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

[sgtsandman]

I set 2 yard sprinklers under mine after the trips. I would recommend moving it into the yard. It's surprising how much mud drips out.

You drip out! You drip!
















I'll have to give that a try. Though, I don't have a yard with big enough access or is big enough to park the truck on for the session. The street and the storm sewer will just have to deal with it.

 

[ekrampitzjr]

Pulled a trailer of brush and junk to the town dump. Not a big deal because the dump is less than 1/2 mile from the house.

 

[sgtsandman]

Pulled a trailer of brush and junk to the town dump. Not a big deal because the dump is less than 1/2 mile from the house.

They started charging us an access fee to our own dump a few years back. The argument is that a lot of yard waste can be handled by the trash and recycling company and it keeps the nonresidents out. Then, they charge you whatever the old man sitting on a chair at the gate to the dump decides to charge for the load. Screw that! I pay property and income taxes to the township and that should be enough and I only need the dump maybe once a year anyway. So, now, whatever can get composted, gets composted. Stuff that can't gets burned in the fire ring. Either way, it ends up in the garden. The township can stuff it.

 

[Curious Hound]

They started charging us an access fee to our own dump a few years back. The argument is that a lot of yard waste can be handled by the trash and recycling company and it keeps the nonresidents out. Then, they charge you whatever the old man sitting on a chair at the gate to the dump decides to charge for the load. Screw that! I pay property and income taxes to the township and that should be enough and I only need the dump maybe once a year anyway. So, now, whatever can get composted, gets composted. Stuff that can't gets burned in the fire ring. Either way, it ends up in the garden. The township can stuff it.

Please, open up and tell us how you feel. Don't hold back. It's not healthy to keep this stuff bottled up inside you.

 

[sgtsandman]

Please, open up and tell us how you feel. Don't hold back. It's not healthy to keep this stuff bottled up inside you.

I'll go tell the clouds. Better?

 

[Curious Hound]

I'll go tell the clouds. Better?

Sure. Go ahead. I've got to be careful today. No clouds to yell at.

 

[MaicoDoug]

Do you look at clouds from both sides now?
Judy Collins
Sweet pic.

 

[RangerSkellington]

On the Ranger today, I got underneath the truck to clean off grease and oil build ups in order to access leaky seals / gaskets. Took note of a few transmission leaks and an oil pan gasket leak too. Planning on getting a Transmission rebuild kit soon and handling it all in one fell swoop (since the truck ain't being drove much at the moment). Until then, topping off.

 

[ekrampitzjr]

They started charging us an access fee to our own dump a few years back. The argument is that a lot of yard waste can be handled by the trash and recycling company and it keeps the nonresidents out. Then, they charge you whatever the old man sitting on a chair at the gate to the dump decides to charge for the load. Screw that! I pay property and income taxes to the township and that should be enough and I only need the dump maybe once a year anyway. So, now, whatever can get composted, gets composted. Stuff that can't gets burned in the fire ring. Either way, it ends up in the garden. The township can stuff it.

In my town brush, limbs, and other yard waste hauled to the dump in a pickup/car or small trailer is no charge. For anything else there's a fee starting at $10. The idea is to discourage abuse and illegal dumping, it appears.

Most of the rural counties out here had to fence their dump areas and post people to examine loads because of abuse such as dumping unwanted pets, and contractors dumping lots of construction waste.

 

[sgtsandman]

In my town brush, limbs, and other yard waste hauled to the dump in a pickup/car or small trailer is no charge. For anything else there's a fee starting at $10. The idea is to discourage abuse and illegal dumping, it appears.

Most of the rural counties out here had to fence their dump areas and post people to examine loads because of abuse such as dumping unwanted pets, and contractors dumping lots of construction waste.

I wouldn't mind if they had did a yearly fee with a pass to the dump for residents or charged per load, with some kind of set price list. But they chose to do both. Running and maintaining a dump is not going to be cheap, I'm sure, but they seem to more interested in bringing in money and discouraging use of the dump at the same time. Typical of a state like Pennsylvania.

 

[Summers22]

Got the rusted rear shackles replaced and took the time to spray down what I could with rust reformer, especially the rear hangers. Also drained the diff and cleaned it all up in anticipation for the Lubelocker gasket to be delivered tomorrow, thay was supposed to be delivered Friday. Yesterday evening I removed the fan motor and got out a bunch of junk and sprayed it down with evaporator coil foaming cleaner. The air smells real good from the vents now! No pictures of the cleaning the air intake as I inspected it all before and after using video on my phone. Bonus picture of our new county Sherrif car via my security cameras. The wrap was designed by an elementary kid that won the contest the local schools in our county had.

 

[JoshT]

I remember you mentioning the shackle rust. I understand wanting to replace those considering the rest of the work you are doing, but there was nothing structurally wrong with the front those pictures. What is coming off is a factory applied coating, if not a thick powder coat, it's probably a similar plastic coating product.

The rust that you're seeing was mostly surface rust for.i g under the coating. Actually one of the problems with powder coat like coatings that many people don't realize. Once it gets chipped you can't repair it without recoating. Without repairing, corrosion will get under it and spread until the coating turns loose like that shackle. That's why IMO paint is better for undercarriage and suspension components that might get hit by road debris. At least with it you can sand and do spot repairs as necessary/desired.



First glimpse of that second pic I thought you were training something, and was like there isn't supposed to be anything there to drain. You running shine and got a tank hidden up there. Then realized that what I thought looked wet was really just the winch mechanism above the bracket.


Did you at least jump on the socials and let your neighbors know that the sheriff was sitting there waiting? Yeah, I wouldn't have either.

 

[Summers22]

Yeah, they may have been fine to leave, but they will eventually need replacement and I'm getting as much out of the way as possible. They did look worse on the truck fwiw.
As for the popo, nobody gets a heads up, lol

 

[pjtoledo]

living in the rust belt of Ohio/Michigan I can definitely say, "that ain't real rust"

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

living in the rust belt of Ohio/Michigan I can definitely say, "that ain't real rust"