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

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Just finished redoing suspension on my 98 2.5, plus all 4 new shocks. Ride feels like a nervous foul on a new patch of grass. Dang.
I too received the wrong LCA from Amazon though it clearly states they fit. I reused the old ones and pressed in new bushings. Those were a pita but my neighbor buddy came through with his hydraulic press made it ez pz (I swear am buying or building one of those.) Incidentally I didn't encounter the dreaded bolt hitting the cats that I have heard about. My only thing was nobody warned me about the passenger side LCA rear bolt being a camber type. That wheel has it's own true North. What's the use of this 3rd camber bolt, actually what's the use of 5 total camber bolts in this ranger?

I’m not sure what the engineers were trying to achieve with that. The 98-00 4x4 trucks typically had a two piece upper control arm on the passenger side. The inner piece of that set is unobtanium. Later years and most aftermarket sells a one-piece upper for those. I guess the adjustable lower was a 2wd thing. Ford has a habit of doing strange things.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Yesterday I pulled the LockRight out of my Choptop rear axle. It wasn’t acting right at all. 3 of 4 pins were snapped. One plate has half of the pin jammed hard into it sideways. Almost all of the bores for the pins were blown out the side and there were some small chips and scratches on the ring gear from those hardened metal chunks. So now it’s back to an open rear. I’m done with playing around with the LockRights. Once I can get a couple projects hammered out here I’ll be in the market for an Eaton. I’m also thinking of building an Explorer 8.8 for it. Small rear axle stretch. Probably 4.56 gears.

Anyway, it also got a new pinion seal yesterday too. I’ll get it filled with gear oil today.

 

[Li'l Work Truck]

What's the use of this 3rd camber bolt, actually what's the use of 5 total camber bolts in this ranger?

I only know of one.