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

[superj]

I still consider myself a "Ford Guy", Maybe my next NEW vehicle will be a Ranger or Maverick

what did you get? a frontier or a titan?

i had both and liked them. i had an 01 frontier that i loved but god dang did that little 3.3 get bad gas mileage. super easy to work on though.

the titan was a 17 texas titan that awesome too but it was in the shop at least twice a year the whole time i had it so when the warranty was about to end, we decided it wasn't worth chancing that it would stay out of the shop from then on. AND, it too got fairly bad gas mileage. generally 12/13 in town but it is a full time old school v8 that made 395hp and 400 pounds of torque so guess its ok mileage. i just didn't like it.

 

[sgtsandman]

The only thing that I don’t like about the ones HF sells is they paint or powedercoat them and it’s something that needs to be welded in so you have to strip all of that off. I’ve been buying Gen Y stuff for hitches because you can get it bare steel, much easier to weld.

I just need a piece of 2.5” square or rectangle tube with a 1/4” wall for what I’m doing, so I can probably get what I need that price or cheaper in bare steel, I can see if the one guy I know has a chunk or I can see about getting a “drop” from one of the steel suppliers.

I have a chunck of 2x rectangle tune that might work. I'll have to remember to grab it out of the scrap pile and measure the wall thickness. I need to double check on if it is really 2x as well. I think it is.

How long does the piece need to be? I'll need to check that too.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I have a chunck of 2x rectangle tune that might work. I'll have to remember to grab it out of the scrap pile and measure the wall thickness. I need to double check on if it is really 2x as well. I think it is.

How long does the piece need to be? I'll need to check that too.

I need about 10-12” of 2.5” square tube with 1/4” wall