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What have you done to your Ranger today?


guided her/was transported by her in such a fashion as to have no contact with any other thing except for the road, the atmosphere, and the rain.
 
Put a new clutch kit in the '03, ran it up and got new tires put on it. Picked up and hauled a bunch of brush with the '96.

Tomorrow picking up new rotors for the '03, bought the new pads for it today. IF you guys haven't tried them; NAPA has some nice ceramic pads for under $30. I had the rotors checked today and they're finally under specs for resurfacing. 160K miles on the ORIGINAL rotors. I give credit to the ceramic pads mostly, but the braking is excellent without breaking the bank. They make the rotors last longer, no brake dust and they don't cause them to warp either..
 
Put a new clutch kit in the '03, ran it up and got new tires put on it. Picked up and hauled a bunch of brush with the '96.

Tomorrow picking up new rotors for the '03, bought the new pads for it today. IF you guys haven't tried them; NAPA has some nice ceramic pads for under $30. I had the rotors checked today and they're finally under specs for resurfacing. 160K miles on the ORIGINAL rotors. I give credit to the ceramic pads mostly, but the braking is excellent without breaking the bank. They make the rotors last longer, no brake dust and they don't cause them to warp either..

Do you remember the part number? I'd like to see if they will fit my 99.
 
I filled up the gas tank. $3.70 for 87 octane. Last week I paid $3.45 for 87 octane when I gassed up the Wrangler and my wife's Tacoma!!!! Gees, golly and crude!!!
 
I vacuumed out the bed and cab...while cleaning out the bed I realized I'm carrying concealed without a permit...garbage, tools, and odds and ends that I should have tossed long ago.

Truck makes less noise and weighs about 50 lbs than it did this morning...the countdown to the rebuild is about to begin...cross your eyes and close your fingers...
 
Seafoam, oil change, adjusted parking brake, receiver hitch.
 
nothing mine is no longer a Fix Or Repair Daily :D:icon_rofl::headbang:
 
Adjusted the timing in my BII back to 10-11 deg initial setting instead of 7-8 degrees.

Ordered some parking brake cables, identified the rear left as sticking. Rear drum brakes/rebuild bumped on priority list. Heard break squealing, almost certainly must be rear which I haven't looked at yet.
 
Drove it for the first time in a month and put $20 in the tank at $3.69 for 87 octane.

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Installed new battery terminals, installed the hood, and reinstalled one of the torsion bar covers I removed for easier access while on the creeper. More importantly I drove it for the first time since the engine rebuild, really the first time I've driven it since January except for limping it to my dad's house (barely made it) a few weeks ago to do the work.

Running good except for a few small items to finish up. Have a small exhaust leak. Dad installed the headers during the week while I was at work. The only thing he could get on some of the bolts with was a 12 point wrench that didn't fit real good, and he didn't want to risk rounding off the bolt heads. I'll be picking up a crows foot to torque them down the rest of the way. Also need slightly longer bolts for the Y-pipe to header bolts. They are installed and self locking nuts, but I'd feel better with a lock washer a little more thread showing through the nut.
 
It's not that we need to fix or repair them daily, it's that we do so they don't end up like GM products.

Let the old girl sit, for the past year... I'm bringing her out to Cali in June.
 
It's not that we need to fix or repair them daily, it's that we do so they don't end up like GM products.

Let the old girl sit, for the past year... I'm bringing her out to Cali in June.


i know its all preventative maintenance :icon_thumby:. im just to a point where there is not much left to fix....
 
Took my best buddy to the little store to pick up a few things, then we went for a short ride. Also screwed around with the throttle cable trying to take up some slack. Ya, I know about the celebrated TyRap, ziptie thing, but I'm not a skinny little kid. Anyone know one around here?:beer:
 
I have just used it for getting the rubbish barrels to the road. It will always have stuff to fix or repair ,but stuff only gets fixed if failure is immanent, or has already occurred. :D
 

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