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What did you do to your Ranger today? (Part Deux!)
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Large gravel like that is so much nicer to carry and unload since it doesn't get wedged into the grooves in the bedliner.
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Just one?? It’s a Ranger, just fill the bed with them and drive home on the bump stops. It can handle it.
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I did the same thing with a large red granite boulder in my 07 F150, good thing it had a hard bedliner, because it left a 4" deep x12 wide " crater in the bottom of the bed.......Pretty sure my dad caused it when he dumped it into my bed with his skid steer. My son is standing in front of the one that caused the dent. The smaller ones are from a different haul.
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The landscaping looks great though.
The landscaping looks great though.
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I broke my pressure plate??? You can see the crack around the pin thing.
The new one feels much nicer so this must have been a long term (2+ year) failure
The new one feels much nicer so this must have been a long term (2+ year) failure
Good job on fixing it. 
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Weight reduction! Floor was clean when I started lol.
This is from hammering on just the back half of the frame too.. and probably only half of the back half.. gotta remove the tank and bust a bunch of rivets to get to the remainder of it..
Only bad news so far is a thin spot by the driver's side shock mount.. could be far worse.
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