Ok, I presume that you're keeping them in case you decide to sell your truck in the future.

 

tri fold tonneau, polished the wheels, and tire rotation

 

changed the oil, all ready for winter now, bring on the snow!

 

put a heater core in it today. offered to drive my cousin to work in the morning then on my way back im gonna stop in and look at a lawnmower.

 

cleaned my engine bay

 

looked at it for about 15 minutes trying to figure out if i want to burn it to the ground or not..

 

yep

 

took my cousin to work.

 

 

Picked it up from the paint shop then replaced the front and rear stock chrome bumpers with black solid steel bumpers, placed my new bed caps and tailgate cap, cut the chrome painted trimming from the stock grill and spray painted that all black and installed my new grille.

 

Flushed the brake fluid, nice clean fluid and stops good.

 

So My truck started clicking out of nowhere. Listened to it and it sounded like the noise was coming from the timing belt cover...So i figured, she's at 140k probably time for a timing belt/water pump change. Got the new timing belt on and water pump and fired her up and then all you hear is CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK....way louder than before. Had the mechanic from the family shop come over to check it out and says its a bad valve. Pull the head, take it to machine shop. CRACKED CYLINDER HEAD.....NOT REPAIRABLE. ****. What are my options. I called all the salvage yards and nobody has this head or this motor, its as if they do not exist. And if one pops up somebody grabs it. .... Do they make a performance head? Does this happen all the time with this motor. Also as you can see in pics below there is a small gouge about 1/2in Lx 1/4in Wx 2mm deep in the top of #4 piston. Is this something I should worry about? Uncle is a master auto tech and he says no big deal. Do these engines EFF up all the time or what? Thought this thing was a steal for 1500 and now I have nothing but headaches. .... Enlighten me ranger lovers. This is a 97 ranger....98 2.5 4cyl motor, 5 speed MT, 31" tires, spindle/shackle lift. Any other mod suggestions Ideas welcome. I like the truck and wanna keep it just wanna make it better. I also need to find the torque specs for putting it back together once I get the head situation handled.

 

went to salvage yard, scored expo shorty console and sun visors.

Took off chrome piece from top of hurst shifter boot, wire wheeled the back side of it. Going to paint the back side black and glue it back into place to stop it from popping out.

 

Just got back from ocotillo wells!!!! woops and wash for days!! braaaaaaap!!!

 

Let my wife drive it.
well , she did put gas in it for me.

 

double post

 

installed superduty 3rd brake light and some new Rain-X blades

 

Well, I didn't do this today, however, I put a new wheel bearing and caliper kit on the passenger side. New pads and rotors up front. ABS still kicking in while braking under 5mph. Ordered another wheel bearing for drivers side. I'll be installing that and a caliper kit on the drivers side prolly Saturday......

I should also probably re-tap front drivers side bolt hole that holds on the rock shield under the radiator. It stripped out a long time ago and quite frankly, I'd be lucky if the bolt is still there.

 

this

 

sprayed it to get the lil mud off it so it dont eat my paint and then drove wit a gps to see where my speedo lies

 

Hit a huge *** pot hole and almost rolled her doing 85 on the way home

 

put 36 miles on it. same every day.

 

I did this yesterday, but I finally changed the oil in it and started to fix up my wiring mess when I installed the power windows and stuff.

 

Installed a MSD 6AL ign. box, a 2 step box, low RPM limiter box, high RPM limiter box, new trans brake switch, wot switch for NOS system.

 

Changed the belt and did an oil change in between finals lol. Campus security thought it was entertaining :D

Was going to pick up a stock grille but the guy won't pick up his phone apparently...guess I'll wait til sunday