Well guys after all the research I have done over the last few years and then reading so much that I got overwhelmed and just gave up, and also getting out of the lowered Ranger scene and selling my original 2000 back to my dad, I have picked up another 2000 Ranger supercab. This one is a flareside but is the same deep wedgewood blue as my last one so I can just slap my cowl hood on it. I also kept my crystal clear headlights and corners and DJM drop so I am mostly already there with this truck. Just gotta get the motor and trans. Good thing about this truck is it is a 3.0 automatic so it will be much easier to swap in the 4R70W into it and just running the explorer stuff instead of messing with finding a manual transmission and making that work. It also has 4 doors unlike my last 2000, has dark charcoal gray interior which I like much more than the tan that I had. It also has all power options with keyless entry, tilt, cruise, all the options my other 2000 didn't lol. Picked it up for $2,800. Already had to clean the ISH out of it because the people that had it lived down a dirt road and it was a MESS!!! Took an entire day to clean the interior. Well onto the pics!


When I first got it home:

 

Interior cleaned up. Took forever!:

Took off the door panels, took out the seats, hosed everything down and put my Ford Racing floormats in.

 

turned out real nice

 

Axle:

Well with the 5.0 the stock 7.5 open just isn't going to work for me so today ex90ranger and I went to the local U pick it and I snatched up a steal!! This came out of a 2000 I believe explorer 5.0. It is an 8:8 rear end 3:73 L/S and 31 spline axle shafts disc brakes and sway bar. This is a somewhat rare axle though as it not only has the normal things that us ranger guys want so badly but it also has the factory traction bars! And I stole this thing for a whopping $100!!!

 

Sweet..Nice job on the clean up! That ranger is going to be great. Keep the pictures up..

 

Sport Trac cluster:

 

I'm looking forward to seeing this put together! Great deal on the axle!

 

Powerstop explorer rear D/S rotors and ceramic pads ordered 3-25-11:

 

this is sick. great idea

 

Awesome job with the cleanup!!! Good luck with the swap!

 

Sweeet ride. Keep us posted on the motor swap.

 

Still waiting on the rotors and pads. Also working on finding a motor without having to pay out the azz for it. Bout to tear down the axle and clean it up soon!

 

i'll have my eye on this build

 

i'm def jealous of the options of that truck, mines has like nothing. ha looking forward to the build.

 

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Keep us posted, cleaned up nice

 

Thanks guys! Will be updating as soon as I get some more pics uploaded. Have done a couple things in the mean time while hunting down an engine.

Andrew, I got pretty lucky on this to find all the options I wanted! Hard to come by. Also your 99 looks like my 99 with the clear corners and the EDGE bumper and valance. Looks good sir! :)

 

New rotors and pads:



Wiper arms repainted gloss black:



Rear sway bar and traction bars painted:



Rotors on the axle:



Cleaned up, and painted calipers



Shortened the antenna and painted black:





More to come!

 

She's gonna be a beaut!

 

Favorited/ Subbd ! thanks for taking the time to document man :)

 

Thanks guys! I'm just tryin to do what I can till I find the right motor! It's killin me I wanna get this swap done now lol

 

yea ive been thinking of a swap for a while now but the motor is first for me. idk i might wait a year or so and try to find a 3.5 ecoboost out of a totaled f150 to shoehorn in my ranger... lol wishful thinking, by then they'l probably have an ecoboosted ranger. plus nothing sounds better than a v8 ranger! good luck Jwad00

 

Explorer rear end 85% complete!:

 

Im likin it. Good work so far!