well heres some updated pics of my rig, i bought her and she needed a little work done, so ive been pretty busy

the day i bought her


whatever kind of lift they had on it fawkn suckd, so i pulled it off and kept the 2" spacers and took out the double aal's from the rear. i just put some spare tires and rims off my old ranger on her for now. had alot of surface rust on the hood, and a few dents and dings so i did some body work





still have some rust on the roof i have to get off


she didnt have any carpet when i got her, and i got tired of all the heat comming off the floorboard, and i had some rolls of carpet from when i changed the carpet out in my living room, so i cut one big piece, did some measuring, and voila! soft on the feet





hopefully ill finish the body work and desert tan this weekend, then im doing the mirrors, bumpers, grill guard flat black, and putting the repainted window trim back on. i ran out of carpet adhesive, so i still have to flatten the carpet on the drivers side of the tranny hump to make it look right, but in all she's comming along pretty good

 

looks good!

i need a project like that to fix up


good luck with the rest of your work on it

 

haha its my dd, kinda sucks because its 25 yrs old, and when stuff breaks i gotta catch a ride to the parts store, i have all the parts to do my duraspark ignition, just waiting on the carb to come in, should b pretty reliable then. i hope. luckily alot of the stuff i have to do to her is either free or cheap

 

lol im in the same boat good thing fords are usually cheap to work on

example:
my mazda rx7 spark plugs 15 a piece
my ranger spark plugs 1.50 a piece

glad i got rid of the mazda but cant help but miss her

 

it must be SOOO nice having that carpet in there....

 

sparks plugs for my ranger were 75 cents lol and it was a 1987 2.3l single plugs per cyl

 

The Before pic was with a lift? Looks nice and tiny to me!! Or maybe Im just used to mine.

Cool truck tho...whats the plans?

 

had some kind of boogety 3" lift with washers and 2" spacers, kept the spacers for now. want to go with either how it sits now with 30x9.50 BFG at's or go 4" skyjacker with the 31's i have. going to do the duraspark as soon as i get the carb, redo my exhaust and get duff headers, duff rear tire carrier, and a roof rack and some lights and call it done for now

man the carpet is so nice, i have a thermometer on my dash and before carpet it would get to 110-115* inside stopped in traffic (in 97* weather), now it only gets up to about 85-90*, makes a big diffeence, plus it looks better then wires and that thick tacky crap ford calls heat reducer. so much more pleasureable to drive

i hope to have it ready soon, as im going to north carolina to visit family and have to go right through troy...uwharrie here i come!

 

Looks like a good project, not so sure about the carpet though!