What would it take to turn your ranger into a dually?

I know you would need to get some custom fenders for normal looks, and new tires and wheels. I also know you would need a new rear axle, or i'm guessing haha. What else is there to making your truck a dually?

I'm not turning my ranger into a dually, ive just been wonderin lately.

 

I often thought about putting the stepside bedsides on the reg bed and putting wide tires on.

 

i have seen in a JC Whitney catalog that they make an adapter to make it a dualie. the fenders you would have to yourself

 

yeah. it would be weird, but i just think seeing one would be pretty cool. and flatbed work rangers dont count. I mean like a somewhat new ranger that was made a dually.

Is it just the rear axle that would need swapping?

 

i think the adapter Josh is talking about allows two wheels to attach together so a new axle wouldn't be needed, just a big fender flare.

 

But real duallies have axles specifically for 2 tires on each side, or is it just the adaptor on alot of trucks? I just wanna know what youd have to do to make it happen, without kits, adaptors or things to make it a dually. Like all custom work, like put your own axle on and such. You get the idea.

 

I am sure the axle is significantly beefier.

 

i think like an 01+ edge or something would look cool turned into a dually, assuming the fenders would be done right and everything. Then maybe a diesel engine swap, i think itd be awsome haha. It sounds like i'm making a ranger into an F-350 haha.

 

wow i think we would go from like 15mpg down to like 10mpg with that

 

Your crazy!

 

they acully made them in the 80's along with the deisel...

 

dually's with 38" Super swampers... yea, that'd be bad ***.
I used to see a mid 80's S-15 with a dually rear, that drove past the shop i worked at a while ago. My boss said that he had the Jcwhitney adaptors, and took dually bedsides from a fullsize, just cut them, and made them fit.


What would be an advantage of dually wheels on a ranger? just coolness? traction in mud pits?

 

I would NEVER actually do it, lol. just ideas running through my head.

 

what about 3 wheel ranger!

 

Well enough people are already rolling theyre rangers around here, a three wheeler ranger would be horrible! We need to find someone with a realy unique ranger though. We need some crewcabbers here, or atleast more active ones.

 

Training wheels no one would roll their rangers!

 

I like the idea of using the adapter things, i saw a dually excursion one time.

 

^^funky.

Roach, we should make a bomb-proof, external, circular roll cage so when you roll, you do a barrel roll and land back on your tires. Our first cage will go to kyle.

 

i was just taliking about that,

i was thinking a 6.0 powerstroke and tranny

and dually converstion kit (populat mechanics has a company that does this)

 

JCW sells the wheel adapters and the fenders last i checked but i haven't looked at one in a while. it wouldn't be hard to do, a decent bodyshop could do it in a couple days.

 

that was the only pic on could find on the net

 

I can't decide if thats ugly or not

 

Dual rear wheel axles have different hubs and wheel mounting surfaces than a single rear wheel axle.

You would have to get a complete one-off custom *** 8.8. Or shorten the hell out of a dana 80, sterling 10 3/4 (i think, might be the 11") for example.

Also the front would also have to have different hubs/adapters/spacers since a true duallie, all 6 tires must be able to rotate. The duallie wheels have a HUGE offset, so the mounting surface of the wheel is actually not even inside the width of the tire.

I think it would be pretty stupid. Because you'd still have a small v6 powerplant and ****ty transmission. The increase load capacity of a DRW axle would not be too benefitted b/c the rest of the drivetrain wouldn't be up to the task.

 

same here lol