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

[Jim Oaks]

I had a snake go up into the rear suspension of my car, but it left when I started the car. I had one go up into the front suspension of the Ranger, but it didn't leave this time when I started the vehicle. Probably the same snake figuring he wasn't going to fall for that again. So, I drove off and went out to dinner. He eventually fell for it because he wasn't there when I got to where I was going.

 

[Roert42]

I cut up another junkyard air box for a MAF housing a while back. Probably just order an Amazon aluminum pipe kit to connect it all up because shiny.

I am a sucker for shiny.

The earlier years of the sohc had a MAF housing bolted to the airbox. I know ‘03 for use, but not sure what year exactly that made it one piece.

my original plan was to get one of those and build an airbox, then bolt the MAF housing to it.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

The earlier years of the sohc had a MAF housing bolted to the airbox. I know ‘03 for use, but not sure what year exactly that made it one piece.

my original plan was to get one of those and build an airbox, then bolt the MAF housing to it.

I'm told 04-11 is the one piece unit.

IIRC, some escape and flex have the same air box. The spare housing I have is made from an escape. Same ID.

Now that you have a HP unit, you can use any MAF you want to, including large bore ones. Just need a wideband in the exhaust to calibrate it.

Tons of youtube videos on how to do it.

I'm just lazy and didn't bother with doing it with the AFE intake.

 

[Li'l Work Truck]

 

[scotts90ranger]

Finally changed the power steering pump on the '97 Ranger, what a mess... it was as bad as I expected and I made a mistake and did it in the shop, nothing made it into the drain pan I put under it... I didn't see a great way to divert the fluid from the two hoses while I turned the wheel lock to lock with the front tires jacked up. many handfulls of absorbent later and it's almost cleaned up... But after it was done at least for now it seems to steer better but I haven't driven it just cycled the steering like 20 times to bleed the system... we'll see how it works tomorrow.

 

[sgtsandman]

So far, so good on the 2011. This is the second time I let it idle to full temp, shut it off and it started back up again. It also started back up again after sitting a bit since I had to move it to make room for the Escape, which may need a transmission replacement. It got towed back to the house and dumped in the driveway. I'll hook forscan up to the thing after I get home from work and see what I can see.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Not sure when I’ll get to it, but the heat wrap stuff that I ordered to try and insulate the fuel lines in the Choptop came the other day. I ordered it from McMaster and oddly enough what showed up was a roll of exhaust wrap, lol.

 

[sgtsandman]

Not sure when I’ll get to it, but the heat wrap stuff that I ordered to try and insulate the fuel lines in the Choptop came the other day. I ordered it from McMaster and oddly enough what showed up was a roll of exhaust wrap, lol.

Well, it IS heat wrap...

 

[ekrampitzjr]

Actually yesterday:

Pulled the right rear wheel to check the brakes because of a slight high-pitched "uh-h-h-h" noise when braking. It's common with a lot of vehicles, but I wanted to ensure there were no surprises. Pads were fine and will probably go 2 or more years.

Also pulled the passenger's side headlamp assembly because of mild condensation inside. We had a lot of rain and storms over the past week, and I've noticed this with the lights before after long rainy stretches. These housings are relatively new and still clean, so no chance of cracks or pinholes.

With the bulbs out, I left the assembly in front of a fan inside the house for a couple of hours until the moisture was gone. The openings for the bulbs (rear of the housing) were toward the fan, which was on high speed. Reinstalling and checking the assembly later with the lights on showed no new condensation. It's dry inside for now.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Well, it IS heat wrap...

Indeed. Not what I expected to get, but it is insulation. Not sure why I didn’t think of looking at exhaust wrap and went straight to the hardware side of things.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Actually yesterday:

Pulled the right rear wheel to check the brakes because of a slight high-pitched "uh-h-h-h" noise when braking. It's common with a lot of vehicles, but I wanted to ensure there were no surprises. Pads were fine and will probably go 2 or more years.

Also pulled the passenger's side headlamp assembly because of mild condensation inside. We had a lot of rain and storms over the past week, and I've noticed this with the lights before after long rainy stretches. These housings are relatively new and still clean, so no chance of cracks or pinholes.

With the bulbs out, I left the assembly in front of a fan inside the house for a couple of hours until the moisture was gone. The openings for the bulbs (rear of the housing) were toward the fan, which was on high speed. Reinstalling and checking the assembly later with the lights on showed no new condensation. It's dry inside for now.

I’ve drilled drain holes in the bottom of headlight housings before. As long as you don’t submerge the light it works well to deal with leaky housings

 

[ekrampitzjr]

I’ve drilled drain holes in the bottom of headlight housings before. As long as you don’t submerge the light it works well to deal with leaky housings

I've done that too. I had an Escort with headlamp assemblies that started fogging on the inside over time. Unfortunately, the holes didn't help much.

The Ranger housings didn't have enough water inside to make me suspect a leaky housing. Humidity is probably the culprit, since my area has high humidity year-round.

 

[Li'l Work Truck]

Finally changed the power steering pump on the '97 Ranger, what a mess... it was as bad as I expected and I made a mistake and did it in the shop, nothing made it into the drain pan I put under it... I didn't see a great way to divert the fluid from the two hoses while I turned the wheel lock to lock with the front tires jacked up. many handfulls of absorbent later and it's almost cleaned up... But after it was done at least for now it seems to steer better but I haven't driven it just cycled the steering like 20 times to bleed the system... we'll see how it works tomorrow.

When I worked for a school system (don't worry, I wasn't a teacher), I used to see these tarp squares hanging from the ceiling with a tube coming down from the middle, which terminated in a sink or bucket. It was temporary until the roof could be fixed. Maybe you could use something like that?

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Had kinda a neat photo op at grocery store

 

[scotts90ranger]

When I worked for a school system (don't worry, I wasn't a teacher), I used to see these tarp squares hanging from the ceiling with a tube coming down from the middle, which terminated in a sink or bucket. It was temporary until the roof could be fixed. Maybe you could use something like that?

I could have done many things different, I just didn't have any quick ideas... zip tieing a red rag to both hoses to slow down the fluid would have worked better but the pump is in a busy location... I didn't have an assortment of hoses available to stick over the two without climbing a ladder and I was being lazy... . Just took a pint of acetone and hosed everything down and sprayed off with air, good enough...