Got the Ranger running!

I finally got the Ranger running! I've been working on it for the last couple of weeks, and yesterday before noon, I finished it up and after building oil pressure with the coil pack unplugged, I plugged it back in and on the first turn of the key, the truck fired right up!

So, I parked the Chevy for the rest of the summer due to crappy tires. I gotta drive my dads car to work tomorrow so afterwards I can go and get the tags for the ranger (they expired in February.....of 2009, lol) and then she'll be ready for me to blow it up again!

Here's the only picture I got as of now. I plan on going out tonight to get some more, so until then enjoy, lol:

good to hear shes up and running. Pic dont work for me...

Yeah, I moved the picture and forgot to fix the link. Here's a couple of other ones from a few nights later:




Ended up having to tear it apart again. Had two major oil leaks. One from the rear main seal and the other from the lower intake manifold. I got the rear main seal one figure out, but that intake one is fighting me. Then again, I'm trying not to get a new gasket for it since it's $80, lol.

It was nice having the Ranger for a couple of weeks, though. Hell, cost me $50 to fill it from 3/4, and that's usually an $80 fill for the Chevy. Unfortunately, I lost 5 quarts of oil in one day, lol. That kinda defeats the purpose, lol.

sharp looking little truck, hows she like those hills?

She climbs them pretty decent. Except for Bluet Pass in WA where I bent a valve....lol.

Just put her back together once again after tearing it apart last night to fix that last oil leak. Still leaks just a tad, but A LOT better than it was. Now I just need to adjust the idle on her, switch one of my O2 sensor wires around, fix my leaky steering box (I swear, every Ford I have ever seen has power steering problems) and she should be tip top.

sounds good, keep us posted

Any updates? I wanna know how the lil truck is doin lol

Intake manifold gasket was shot from the factory. Need to get another one from Ford, but haven't spent the money on it. She's parked again, lol. I do want to get it running this summer though to save a few bones on gas, though. May not get as good of mileage as the Chevy, but a 17 gallon tank is a lot easier to fill up than a 26 gallon, lol.

Tell me about it. Spent $75 tonight, got a whole 3/4 tank lol

bigcountry78 wrote:

Tell me about it. Spent $75 tonight, got a whole 3/4 tank lol

Yup....will be spending that tomorrow myself. Going to start being a little more careful on weekend planning as I know I can get two weeks worth of work commute on one tank of gas. May have to make other people drive ME around for once, lol.

Yea that's one advantage of a reg cab, ppl don really like to cram in lol. But it doesn't bother me or my cousins really. I remember one new years, we went thru a license check with six or seven ppl in my truck man that was fun lol