Mr. B's House of Hoopties

[MrBurgundy]

My ranger deserves better lube than that

I love meeee rannger

[roguetoaster]

For a bespoke automobile like your Ranger only the finest dollar store brand bleach will do.

[MrBurgundy]

You just need any slippery liquid, let your mind wander.

Is that the bottle of KY w the elevens on the bottle?

[roguetoaster]

You just need any slippery liquid, let your mind wander.

[MrBurgundy]

Did you properly test the LSD?

I need like 50 more HP to test it

[2mAn]

Did you properly test the LSD?

[MrBurgundy]

ALL RIGHT

Back in June, I ended up doing the rear end before my trip to a music festival on some mountain up in Utah. GLAD I did it. My cabin was 9000ft up and that truck w the old rear end and bigger tires would have been rolling backwards.

So, the rear end I got was not the level 2 like I had hoped.. My inexperience in ford parts was to blame when trying to ID it, but it's all good. No torsen- we got a traklock or whatever tf Ford calls their clutch LSD.

Got a Ford racing rebuild kit for it and slapped it in there, quite literally.

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

Soaked the discs in friction modifier

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

This "S" spring was terrifying to install.. A series of vice grips, sweat, tears and crippling anxiety got the job done.

-maybe I'm being a little dramatic~

While doing the rear end, I added a leaf in the back to lift the truck up a bit and to help assist the old, tired springs when carrying a payload. It was sagging terribly before.

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

The level of the rear looks nice now and I can carry a few hundred pounds back there before the bed starts to come down, which is nice. I thought it was going to ride like a mine cart after, but it rides much better, to my surprise.

The rear springs were so tired, when you would hit a bump the springs would flex and the little power the Lima has would cause axle wrap. Not a fun time.

The 4.10 gears dramatically transformed the way the truck drives. MUCH better acceleration and power. I can actually use the overdrive gear now! woooo!

Truck did amazingly going up to Utah. Fully loaded bed and a mountain didn't trouble the little motor at all..

Around that same time I purchased another 'truck"

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

2005 CHEVY 'LANCHE

It's got coil springs in the rear, a full size cabin and a DVD fucking player. DBL XTRA CREDZ (get on my level, nerds)

Anyways, were here for the Ranger, so fuck that thing, for now..

Yes, V8, I haven't forgotten.. My E30 took up all my time in the recent months, so that was put on the back burner and will be there for a while as I get ready to paint the Ranger. I want the engine to go in and not have to live through the process of getting painted. I would like to do it next summer, when it's too hot to drive it.

Oh yeah, also got some new shoes for it.

Untitled by Omar Albasateneh, on Flickr

Tentative plans now are to maybe construct/fab up a rear shell frame that I can wrap in canvas and add a bracket on the bed to accommodate a rear tire mount to keep a full size spare.

[E30auddie]

Yes... Now you owe R3V TWO build threads

Haha, damn, should've kept my mouth shut!

[2mAn]

Lol, you weren't kidding about bumping threads! And I don't remember who said it, but it does seem that r3v is turning into a truck forum haha. I guess maybe I should make a build thread for my Tacoma crawler too!

To OP: hard to beat an old danger ranger! I loved my 99 3.0 5sp!

Yes... Now you owe R3V TWO build threads

[E30auddie]

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Lol, you weren't kidding about bumping threads! And I don't remember who said it, but it does seem that r3v is turning into a truck forum haha. I guess maybe I should make a build thread for my Tacoma crawler too!

To OP: hard to beat an old danger ranger! I loved my 99 3.0 5sp!

[2mAn]

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[MrBurgundy]

Hmm, interesting, hadn't looked at it that way, and it would probably make for faster flame propagation, but not sure if that would net much more power or more complete combustion.

I'm sure in the high rpm range the dual spark is helping out a lot to ignite everything as quickly as possible.

I'm a white claw fan for sure lol

I'd even go as far as calling my self a slut for white claws

[Reichart12]

That's a lot of Claws you have in the bed...

[roguetoaster]

Hmm, interesting, hadn't looked at it that way, and it would probably make for faster flame propagation, but not sure if that would net much more power or more complete combustion.

[MrBurgundy]

Glad to see you committing time and energy to an old Ranger. Good stuff!

Thanks, I've grown on this old bitch

If I'm not mistaken, the spark plugs do spark at the same moment, but the intake side is the "primary" coils destination.

It seems as if they did this to mimic the centered spark plug that was seen in DOHC engines for better combustion