well finally got around to taking some pictures of the truck again... in the last 1.5 months i've put new brake pads, fornt axle shaft u-joints, truck bed and tails off of a 98' ranger, wheel bearings and welded my rear bumper on straight. i took the canopy off this morning and put my toolbox in, its not bolted down yet but i put canopy clamps behind it for now so it doesnt slide around. i have also gotten some 4" stainless step bars that will be going on soon. i gotta go back to work on sunday so it might be another month before those get put on, also had to put a new extended cab window in as the other one got smashed by a tree, well onto the pics.

with cap


without cap


toolbox will be painted black already have the paint


taillights are still a 3 bulb so there was no rewiring needed. yay!! just about ripped the license plate off the other night dragging trees off the trail




for those you that dont remember this is what my truck used to look like


enjoy. oh and i am buying tires next month and they will be a 31x10.5x15 of something.. its $1100-$1300 CDN for a set of tires brand new, i found a set of Alcoa rims with Dick Cepek FC-2 with like 40% tread on them, shoddy thing is that there is only 3 tires and rims. they want $100 each for the rims and $60-70 each for the tires.

 

Nice fixer-upper, looks familiar.... :)

 

yeah... haha.. i thought it was time to throw some money at it. the same truck that has the tires and rims on it has good rear leaf springs so i want to grab those too. its a newer ranger with a powerdome hood, unfortunately the hood wont fit lol

 

Making progress.

 

yup its about time haha... the truck bed wasnt too bad of a price, got it off kijiji for $350 CDN with the taillights and tailgate also came with the plug in for the tails. the guy wanted an extra $100 for the tailgate.... i also got some expanded metal to finish my mesh tailgate but i dont have time right now its gonna have to wait until my next week off work.

 

Bumper is pretty cool.

 

Hey, your bed doesn't match! Lookin good dude.

 

haha the color is a little off, still doesnt look as good as your truck tho!!! the bed is 2 tone.. the whole truck needs a repaint but im not too worried about that haha.. still need an axle shaft, leaf springs.. hell maybe some new 4wd hubs soon too they are clunking like a bastard!!! hopefully they will blow then can you say manual hubs!! YAY!!!

now if i really wanted it multicolored i could put my canopy back on and put my 93' blue tailgate on haha..

 

ya i like it too. my dad built that for my 88' s10 then when the s10 went up for sale (october last year) i grabbed and made new mounts bolted it to the ranger, i've ripped it off once pulled a friend's s10 back on its wheels in the mountain only because of my ****ty welds. so i cut some 1/8th inch 2x2 angle iron and welded the **** out of it.. haha pulled a couple trees off a trail the other night withoute problems.

 

its good to see its getting fixed up