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I built off of a 2005 ford ranger 4.0 manual transmission. I extended the frame the allow for the long bed (ford never made an extended cab long bed) Undercoated the frame swapped the rear axle for a limited slip 4.10 gear. Lifted the truck and added the 33X12 wheels. Truck drives great needs nothing it is one of a kind. In the bed the truck has a solar panel recharging a battery in the back that runs the exterior lights for camping as well as lights inside the bed and 12v plugins on the cap. In september I drove the truck to Wyoming 1500 miles each way on a hunting trip. Truck did great on the highway and offroad. The truck has AC and cruise control. and a kenwood radio. Also I repainted the truck Toyota Quicksand tan like the new Toyota's. Its up for sale if anyone is interested $10k
Looks awesome man! What was all needed for the frame to work out? Was it as easy as finding a singal cab long bed truck and grinding out the rivets and moving that frame section over to the extended cab ranger? Or was there any fabrication/welding to extending the existing frame on the extended cab frame before bolting the long bed rear half on?
Really looking into this build and havent been able to find anyone that has done it until now!
Looks awesome man! What was all needed for the frame to work out? Was it as easy as finding a singal cab long bed truck and grinding out the rivets and moving that frame section over to the extended cab ranger? Or was there any fabrication/welding to extending the existing frame on the extended cab frame before bolting the long bed rear half on?
Really looking into this build and havent been able to find anyone that has done it until now!
Removing the rivets was a pain in the butt, the easiest way I found was to grind the rivets down flush then drill out the center this would allow the rivet to give a little and could be hammered out. It was simple to find a donor truck and I found that with parting the rest of the truck out I actually made money on it. For the conversion the long bed rear frame only adds what you need behind the axle in order to get the distance needed you also have to lengthen the front frame as well before attaching the two. to do this I cut pieces off of the donor truck front frame and butted them up to my original frame then added a new piece of 1/4" steel shaped like the frame rail and had it overlap each side by 12" then welded it all together. after welding I attached the new rear frame to the lengthened front frame with grade 8 bolts in place of the rivets then after I checked all allignments I welded the two together as well just to make sure they wouldn't move. all in all I had about 100 hours in the build including all the paint work.
Yeah I reinforced it I bent some 1/4" thick material to match the inside of the frame rail and overlapped it on each side by 12" and used the original rivet holes to bolt in place then I also fully seam welded all the way around.
For the conversion the long bed rear frame only adds what you need behind the axle in order to get the distance needed you also have to lengthen the front frame as well before attaching the two.
You didn't have to lengthen the driveshaft? I could've sworn I saw someone else's extended longbed who had to do that.
Looks awesome! Can't wait to start mine. Still searching for a good longbed donor.
12-10-2019
