What did YOU do today?

[97RangerXLT]

I joined TRS! Long time Ranger owner, V8 swapped it long before the internet, only using magazines and old timer advice. Starting the restoration process on it now. View attachment 132987Back it’s prime around 1994

View attachment 132988Just pulled the motor to refresh.

this is probably one of the best posts to this thread.

Welcome to TRS! love the truck, really love the wheels. are those 5 on 4.5 or do you have different size hubs/ axles? I have looked for a set of turbine wheels but can only find them for the old dent side full size Fords

AJ

 

[RSPD505]

They are 5 on 4.5. I bought those in about 87. I love em

 

[RSPD505]

Yes. Except my PIA old timer was cool as shit! His son built the motor, when he was only in early 20s. He’s now ASE certified and an instructor at a local vocational school. AND he is the one rebuilding it! The circle of life!

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Mounted and balanced 5 tires for a family friend plus two skid steer tires for dad’s skid steer. Had to buy special valve stems for the family friends rims, $69 for 5 valve stems.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Tractor pull meeting tonight, only one more weekly meeting (do weekly meetings for the month before the event, monthly otherwise), this time I drug home a irrigation pipe trailer for my brother they were getting rid of for cheap... has first gen Explorer aluminum wheels... The tire balance left some to be desired but made it home fine... '97 Ranger wasn't the biggest fan of pulling a 35' trailer (I mean it has to way like 500lb total so not a big deal) but it was fine just wiggly when the tires resonated...

 

[superj]

the little box to train my new tire pressure sensors showed up yesterday so i did the ignition, brake, ignition code and go the truck in learn mode and then went around and used the little box to alert the truck where each new sensor was. it look about 4 minutes total

 

[sgtsandman]

I hosed off the majority of the trail dust off the 2019 after pulling all the easily removable gear from the bed rack and rehabilitated a single burner Coleman 502 stove.

The stove needs a little more TLC but it runs well enough to make coffee, which would be it's main purpose anyway.

 

[Rick W]

this is probably one of the best posts to this thread.

Welcome to TRS! love the truck, really love the wheels. are those 5 on 4.5 or do you have different size hubs/ axles? I have looked for a set of turbine wheels but can only find them for the old dent side full size Fords

AJ

Just an FYI, you can pick up the square body town car Lincoln turbine wheels for cheap, but they’re not exactly the same. But they fit on the Ranger. Watch though, the old ones were 5 x 5, and since about 1980 they are 5 x 4.5.

That’s a 15 inch wheel. That’s actually standing in front of the wheel on the truck, so I could see how it looks.

I used to get them four for $100, but now they charge you by the aluminum wheel. But they’re out there.

 

[97RangerXLT]

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Just an FYI, you can pick up the square body town car Lincoln turbine wheels for cheap, but they’re not exactly the same. But they fit on the Ranger. Watch though, the old ones were 5 x 5, and since about 1980 they are 5 x 4.5.

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That’s a 15 inch wheel. That’s actually standing in front of the wheel on the truck, so I could see how it looks.

I used to get them four for $100, but now they charge you by the aluminum wheel. But they’re out there.

I actually looked into those as well. Mercury Grand Marquis also has those with different center caps. the thing that has me hesitating is that the Towncar/ Marquis rims are fairly narrow. not an issue for a street truck or 2wd, but the 4x4 with 31" or larger tires will not work as well.

AJ

 

[superj]

Just an FYI, you can pick up the square body town car Lincoln turbine wheels for cheap, but they’re not exactly the same. But they fit on the Ranger. Watch though, the old ones were 5 x 5, and since about 1980 they are 5 x 4.5.

View attachment 133044

That’s a 15 inch wheel. That’s actually standing in front of the wheel on the truck, so I could see how it looks.

I used to get them four for $100, but now they charge you by the aluminum wheel. But they’re out there.

to me, those are great looking wheels on a truck.

 

[Maritime Drag Racing]

Ranger 2.0 FINAL update. The AFR 227 cylinder heads decided they did not want to hold water so we are DONE for the season.....

 

[Rick W]

to me, those are great looking wheels on a truck.

You made me curious, so I looked it up. The 1980s vintage town car turbine wheels are 15 x 7.

After I got the two town cars, I bought a couple extra rims from the scrapyard so I could put the spares on the same turbines. When I got the Mark V, which has a 5 x 5 pattern, I wanted more offset (that was the original team with Michelin design that never played out.), so I got wheel spacers, but also the converters to the 5 x 4.5. The other dimensions of the wheels are identical so all of the turbines I have are the same. Then I found $100 set in the scrapyard with perfectly good tires, except they weren’t white walls, that I just got and put into the stack. And I still have the five by fives with the original Mark V tires on them.

It was like eatin’ peanuts…

 

[Rick W]

I finally got done washing the 96 F250 diesel 4WD, long cab, long bed. 6 months under a tree. It’s like washing a school bus.

I pulled it out from the back for the first time in about six months, and drove it round-trip to the cute little brunette’s house, about 35 miles one way. On the way up, the right front caliper was sticking a little bit, but it was free for the ride back. Dodged the bullet. I taught myself once again, you have to move them around every couple months if you don’t want to create more problems, but it looks like I lucked out. & the vacuum pump is working fine, so the AC is ice cold and blowing in the right places.

I know, compact only. I’m a rebel….

 

[scotts90ranger]

I finally got somewhere on my ZF5 rebuild saga for the F350... busy week so I finally got time to drain the trans from the truck so I could extract the tail housing, when draining the fluid it was full and looked ok but found a chunk of gear tooth... once I separated the halves 5th gear is broken and the output bearing cage was broken since it was next to the trauma... Other than being generally worn out I think that's the only issue other than the spun race on the front counter shaft bearing... After getting that apart I lifted the donor trans and it's fluid was bright and shiny red so good sign there, just minor fuzz on the magnet once I split it and in general it looks MUCH better than what the other trans looked like when I went through it a couple years ago... so I should be in good shape! Tomorrow I'll get deeper and hopefully get one together...

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Loaded my 2004 f150 onto my rebuilt car hauler. Posted it on kijiji and if not sold

in a week then off to the scrapper.
The body is decent. But 5.4 is done.