did some seaching on this there is a lot of people out there that seem to have this problem . called ford and they said " nothing we can do u are out of warranty " trying to get some sort of genneral number of how many people have this problem.
also trying to find some atfer market company that makes the rear frame section ford dosent sell it. they said anything needed for a frame needs a hole new frame and for 2500 bucks no way. also checked salavge yards around my area and one has one worth anything they are just as bad as mine. broke my driverside rear spring pertch of the frame and it took the frame with it. when i had the bed off fixing this problem found my cross member for the gas tank was rotted also the rear plate that hold the spare tire in also rotted. will put pics up soon.

 

Thats what you get with an 11 year old vehicle thats lived its entire life in the rust belt.

Mine was from back east, and its had no problems yet

 

My 04 frame is in good shape I have a few little spots on my body that have some cancer though.... I have learned not to look under my truck unless i want to find something that i wanted to pretend wasent there

Mine used to live in PA according to Carfox

 

when i had my bed off i had to make a bracket to put on one of the cross memebers and i paitned everything. I will have to replace the shackle mounts sometime probably.

 

how well dose the paint hold up i was thinking once i fix it to bed liner the frame it seems stronger

 

with less than a year of very little driving there are several rock chips. if i were you i would look into POR-15 or chassis saver.

 

ok thanks

 

Yeah. I think I read somewhere that 98 or 99 Rangers were in class action suit for excessive frame rot. Not sure which year.
SPOTS OF CONCERN FOR ALL RANGERS:
Gas tank cross member
Rear shackle/leaf spring mounts
Front bumper brackets and reinforcers
Body corners of cab and bed

 

Krown.com

there ya go

rust prevention spraying in canada

you should have something similar down there

 

Is it worth replacing the frame?

 

Holy hell that's a dead thread.

Is it worth it to you? If you can find a new frame, and can do it, or want to pay someone to, then that's your call.

In the end you'll probably spend a lot more on the truck than its worth, so it would need to have some sentimental value you you

 

It doesn't have any value as far as that goes but I hate seeing a good truck be trashed because of a bad frame everything else on the truck is fine!

 

See if you cant find a cheap truck that just has a garbage body, doesn't run etc

 

I can possibly save the front part because the oil has saved most of it lol but the rear after the cab is bad the gas take is being held on by a chain lmao

 

Can anybody tell me where I can buy the upper control arm brackets that are welded to the frame...its a 2008 ford ranger with torsion bar front suspension.

 

you cannot , they are welded on by the manufacturer

you should consider a solid axle swap

 

I had a 1990 Ford Ranger purchased new in Florida (in 1990). I used to do my own tune-ups and such. Eventually because of living near the ocean I noticed the core support was rusting out like crazy. Found out the frame and alot of what was bolted onto it was from Canada. But the salt air in Florida will wreak havoc on your vehicles. I was washing and waxing the truck often but underneath is a diff story. Want to laugh? I used some product similar to flex seal and it fixed the problem. Truck probably would have lasted many more years and gone on to 300,000 plus miles. But my ex-husband was a d**k and destroyed it. Great trucks!

 

Seems Ford specific..... My old 2000 S10 (traded in on a 2019 Ranger) had been here in salt-land where there is more salt put down than snow.....for 207,000 miles. Frame was great, body had stuff that appeared NOT to be salt-related going on.

But the S10 had an open C-channel frame, Ford has a closed box salt trapping frame, designed to rust out faster because you cannot clean it out decently. There is a cross-tube on the 2019 that is already filling up with dirt. Need to blast that out. Dunno what to do with the frame..... figure on scrapping the truck by 100k miles I suppose.

It's one of the few things I do not like about the new Ranger.

 

The frame rust problem is not unique to any single manufacturer. The issue began when the EPA regulations for clean air made the use of traditional frame anti rust coatings obsolete. Toyota is the only manufacturer that cared enough about their customers to buy trucks back or replace frames. Sure wish enough Ford guys could get together on this matter but by now most of the trucks are gone... Another part of the problem is the use of brine to treat roads in the winter. Many states use a sticky substance such as sugar beet juice mixed with the brine to help it adhere to the roads. Unfortunately it also sticks to our beds and frames. I washed my Ranger's under carriage often when I worked at a dealership with a car wash. Didn't seem to help much.Now I am looking for a rear frame here in Maryland.

 

It's a design issue, closed box frames will rot out from trapped gunk way before open U frames do. The places on the body where the S10 finally rotted out after 20 years and 207,000 miles, wer all places where junk collected, like pine needles that went down the ventilator intake, etc . The frame was good for lots more time, because stuff was continually washed off out of the U frame.

And, it is not a strength issue, most heavy trucks seem to have U frames (of thicker material, naturally)

 

It’s true that boxed frames hold moisture but this issue is worst on the K pan for the spare and the cross member for the fuel tank support. It also seems that the baffle between the muffler and the bed held moisture and allowing the beds to rust out in the right front corner too.

 

i.e. Rear spring perches !

IF the frames were totally boxed there wouldn't be a problem.
Ford as Toyota, chose to lighten up the vehicles by reducing the thickness of the frames... PROBLEM... !
I think Ford, as Toyota did, should have been held responsible to replace the Frames or buy back at a reasonable price each and every Ranger.