You Might be a Ranger Fanatic (or Gearhead) if....

[Hopman]

Okay, I've had this idea kicking around for a few weeks now.

You might be a Ranger Fanatic and/or Gearhead if...

1. You can tell which engine an RBV has just buy the sound and can tell if it's runing off just by the smell.

2. You know the torque specifications and sizes for every nut & bolt on a Ranger, but can't remember what your own adress is.

3. You can rebuild a 4.0 engine blindfolded.
3a. Your daughter rebuilt a 2.3 (by herself!) when she was 5.

4. Your gave your wife a new ratchet for Christmas (and she LOVED it!)

5. Instead of Playboy in the bathroom, there's a stack of Ranger shop manuals.

6. Your garage home garage is bigger in your house.

7. You've named your dog (or other pet) after an auto part. (Come here Dipstick!)

8. You buy parts for engine you haven't owned in years!

9. Junkyards come to YOU when they need a Ranger part.

10. You spend more time with your truck that you do with your family.

11. You chose the colors to paint your house by looking at Exploror & Ranger paint codes.

12. You made a Ranger bench seat into a porch swing and a set of B2 buckets into lawn chairs.

13. Your homepage is TRS.com.

QWhat have you guys (and gals) got to add?

 

[igiveup]

Hello

I named my dog Henry Ford and it a chihuahua cross.

igiveup

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

i had a dog named Ranger
and instead of playboy i have Ranger brochures on the bath lol
my homepage is TRS

 

[adsm08]

Girlfriend's dog is named dipstick. He has a black tail with a white tip.

If you work on your truck when nothing is wrong with it.

 

[hoosier1104]

If you are constantly looking for ways to get more ground clearance and flex out of your lift kit.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

14. You have a picture of your Ranger(BII/Explorer) in your wallet.
14a. You have a picture of your RBV as your computer desktop background.

15. You have a large picture (8x10 or larger) of your RBV on a wall of your home.

16. You have bought more than 2 RBVs under the excuse that they are only to be parts vehicles... and then decided to rebuild 'em.

17. You have built a shed with a full loft (second floor) just to store RBV parts.

18. You have an RBV part in your bedroom.

19. Your tool collection rivals the local mechanics.

20. You saved your first busted axle shaft. (Typically a D-28, lol)

21. Before you have even finished assembling your newest lift kit on your truck, you stand back to look at it and decide that you didn't lift it enough.... even if you know that your significant other will need a ladder to get in.

22. You have ever strolled through a junkyard with a tape measure and digital camera to try to find new parts to use on your RBV.

23. The shed you built in #17 is not big enough for all of your parts so you are trying to decide if you should build another or just build a 50x150 shop with a full second floor to try to just get it over with once and for all.

24. Your emergency toolkit includes an ammo can (like a steel waterproof grenade box) full of all of the wrenches, sockets and other misc tools needed to completely rebuild your RBV, a cooler of beer, and a selection of tow straps. A CB radio is also considered standard equipment.

25. You have had a full set of tires and rims chained together outside your college apartment door.

26. You have ever been pulled over by a police officer for having too much mud on your truck. [guilty... I was driving my 2wd Ranger at the time, lol]

27. You have a color theme for your trucks. (ex: I own 2 red trucks I'm contemplating repainting, 4 blue trucks and used to own one other blue truck....)

28. When a friend has a problem with his/her RBV, you are the first person they call.

29. Your college apartment complex complained about you having more than one vehicle in the parking lot... so you put a For Sale sign on the one, never intending to actually sell it.

30. If/when you sell the vehicle mentioned in #29, you promptly replace it with a bigger one. [I went from a stock BII to my choptop, lol]


Yes, I have been guilty of every one I listed. I'll add more as I think of them.

 

[Frank The Tank]

My garage is bigger than my house........

When you ask your gf for a 3 way......... with your truck.

Frank

 

[Hopman]

You know more about Rangers than the engineers who designed them.

The guys at the auto parts store call you when they have a Ranger question!

18. You have an RBV part in your bedroom

18a. Your end table is an engine block.

31. You have more nuts & bolts in your grage than a Fastenal store!

32. You celebrate your truck's birthday AND the day you bought it.

 

[sloth69mustang]

ha at least half of those apply to me. and my dogs name is shelby gt500 shelby for short

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

You know more about Rangers than the engineers who designed them.

The guys at the auto parts store call you when they have a Ranger question!



18a. Your end table is an engine block.

31. You have more nuts & bolts in your grage than a Fastenal store!

32. You celebrate your truck's birthday AND the day you bought it.

lol, I'm guilty of 32 and working on 31. And someday I will probably have 18a.

 

[dwsykes]

My dog's name is Ranger and I have a 88 2.9L throttle body under my bed...along with several other parts

 

[LIMA BEAN]

When you buy your gf/wife perfume from victorias secret and use it in the ranger instead.

 

[rngr4x4beast]

im guilty of 1 and alot of these and im always working on my truck even tho i dont need to

 

[wrecking-crew]

If you buy parts you don't need for the Ranger.

You fix up a RBV that doesnt look like it would be worth fixing.

If you work on your truck when nothing is wrong with it.

Guilty of that, and #'s 1, 7, 8, 10, 13, 18, and 28.

 

[TheTopher]

You spend your free time rearranging your tools while staring at your truck trying to think of an excuse to wrench on it.