Started my day off on Friday by sanding the frame down as best as I could without disassembling the front end and then blew the dust off and painted it. No pictures of the frame, sorry. I also painted my rear bumper plastic, front bumper plastic, and the flares. I used Duplicolor Bedliner in a can. (Cleaned using simple green, then wet-sanded, then rinsed off, then sun-dried, then prepped with alcohol pads, then used 2 coats of bedliner). Saturday I got my new tires mounted, washed the truck, clay-bar'd it, and waxed it. Wooooot.

I also traded my 255/60/17 Pirelli Scorpian AT's on 17" Dale Jr wheels for $400 plus stock Mazda wheels. (I originally paid $500 so it's whatever).

Now here's the best part....I got (5) 32x11.50x15 BFGoodrich All-Terrain KOs for $250. One is brand spankin new, the other 4 not that far behind. Honestly they have 98% tread left, atleast. The guy didn't know what he had.....on with the pictures!!!!

As she sat.....




Flares before.



Front bumper before & after.






And the mini-photo shoot at the park & ride.













Pop-out Ext.Cab windows FTW!!







And I detailed and cleaned the interior. Note the Mountaineer Leather & full length console with Expo cubby hole.






Hope you enjoy :)

 

word...looks good

 

Thats a sick looking B4K you have...

 

i like it man its turning into something great

 

Thanks man, I'd have never guessed she'd look this good at the vehicle age of 13, which is pretty old haha. Already gotten a rear-frame replacement and has 164k on the odometer but she's running strong and getting 18mpg. (Which is gonna drop with the new tires lol)

 

Looks good!

 

Looks great!

 

While they may have those neato pop out windows........ 2dr xcab = FAIL.




hahaha.



Truk Leuks Gud, spizzle!

 

Where'd you get the windows? or did they come standard? I'd like to get some for my truck!

 

Looks great.

 

we dont need no stinkin xcab doors ... although it mighta been eaiser to get my 15" solobaric sub back there

option, ive never seen a ranger with them though, only mazdas. Mine doesnt have them

 

i have seen a 98 Ranger with them

 

Lookin nice dude! Love the pop out windows.

 

My Aunts 93' Ranger has them and I once saw a 95' in the junkyard with them.

Truck looks real clean.

 

your truck looks like him, the headlights are the squinty eyes and the tow hooks are the teeth

HERRO PA-WEEZ, RAFF OUT ROUD

 

Love you too Korey

 

you ever get the back half of the frame swapped?

 

Yessir, around Thanksgiving I did....truck looks and runs like champ considering everything that was wrong with it....

 

Looks ALOT better than before. Looks like it needs a bit of a tbar crank up front, and maybe a dual sport sticker instead of the FX4 sticker which looks out of place

 

I don't entirely know the answer....but they're only found on 2dr xcabs and they were optional. If not optioned, they had stationary windows. Supposedly, there was an option to have 4dr xcab WITH vent windows, but NONE have been seen or taken pics of. Most have assumed it was a typo in the sales literature in like '00. I believe ford axed those windows in '00ish? Made all windows regardless of doors, stationary. This all goes for both Maz and Ford's, BUT, I *wanna say* *i think* the ranger's last year of those windows was '97 as I don't recall seeing a '98+ Ranger with them. But I could be wrong and I'm questioning this while looking at Steve's truck! lol.

 

my dads old 98 ranger work truck had the pop out windows. lol

 

just saw a 94-97 maz today with pop outs

 

i agree, get sport stickers, it looks weird with a mazda fx4 package.

as for the vent windows, could a person with a 4dr ext cab put those in?

 

my old neightbor had a 98 with the pop out windows.

 

your seats look comfy as hell