Did the "tie wrap" trick with the throttle cable. I didn't think it would make much difference, but how wrong I was! I almost had room for three of 'em, but stopped at two.

 

flipped the hangers did a tune up put in a new ignition switch and bought and installed new window cranks all in three days

 

modded my amber corners. Going to re-do my clears.

 

Cussed it! lol

 

Washed it and cleaned the bed!

 

Niteshade?

Drove mine 30+ miles today lol

 

Ordered new tires (BFG T/A KO) and rims (Pro Comp).

 

changed the oil wanted to rotate the tires but it was toooo dam hot

 

made it into a dump bed. lol really im about to change out the front spring hanger brackets.

 

Ordered new fog lights the other day and the idiot I talked to sent 2 lefts, called back and all they could say was "well you ordered 2 lefts" still working on a fix with them.

 

Since the Alex hurricane hit my city... I used my Ranger as boat... lol

 

Just washed mine! First time in a couple months!

 

Moved it. I've been driving my Miata lately. Wish i could take the roof off my Ranger.

 

Put an explorer Rear axle in it!

 

Same here, Daily Driver. Great minds think alike. The Miata sits at home today, though, as I'm stopping by the junkyard to try and score a "new" instrument cluster and cassette stereo for the Ranger.

Steve>>

'97 ranger XL
'96 Miata (M)

 

cleaned the engine bay, air filter, and MAF then washed the whole thing

 

How do you clean the MAF?

 

Well, the junkyard kicked me out an hour early, since everyone wanted to start the long weekend early. I can't blame them, as I got sprung from work an hour early myself!

I did manage to score a new instrument cluster from a '99 Ranger that had a tachometer (my '97 didn't have one). Ripped everything out, installed the new set enough to re-bolt the steering column and reconnect the battery and took her for a road-test.

Everything works fine - tach registers the RPM's that I would expect for a 4-banger at normal speeds AND... THE ODOMETER WORKS!! Bonus was that the odometer of the new gauge set is only about 6000 miles more than what was on my truck. Given that I have no idea when the existing odometer stopped working (but looking at the truck, it looks 160k-ish) I will "call it a draw" as was said by The Black Knight as he sat there armless and legless.

So, I will confirm that you can swap a gauge set from a 2000 Ranger with presumably a 6 and slushbox to a '97 with a 5-speed and have a working tach as well as accurate speedo. All the magic is worked electronically now. The only issue I had was a "FUEL RESET" light, for which I removed the bulb -- seeing as the engine shouldn't have been running if the "FUEL RESET" circuit was actually seeing a problem.

Steve

 

went to a bunch of junkyards on a quest to find flares.... found 3/4 full set and was told they were 175. they were scratched to hell and i told the guy he was a crook. end of story no flares.... maybe ill get lucky and the fender flare fairy will give me some 06's lol

 

Washed it good and bought some stuff for an oil change.

 

You can clean it with MAF cleaner or with electronic parts cleaner.

 

LOL What better combo than a Ranger and a Miata?

I washed the Ranger today but will need to shop for a rear bumper soon, and maybe a hitch after I get the rear frame welded. Too bad, I really liked my set up before some crazed DPW guy in a dump truck plowed into 4 of us. I also need stuff in the front. Header panel, grille, hood, etc.



And congrats on the find, and the successful experiment. I could never figure why they would put a tach on an auto and leave it off a stick.

 

Hey how many junkyards are your way? Did you find much?

 

I replaced my factory fogs. That's the most I've done to it in 10 months.

 

Why?