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The Lone Ranger – Doubler Linkage
When I bought the 1350 to use for the doubler, it came with the linkage for the AL4D which is supposed to work with the M50D setup. I’m here to tell you it doesn’t, the upper portion of the linkage hits the back of the transmission in high range. So out came the welder and the chop saw! Stock Arm: Little cutting action: Slap some ½” rod and a threaded section onto the old linkage: Get your knob of choice…
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The Lone Ranger – Extending your own driveshaft
Edit: Don’t do it this way, there are better ways of doing this, but I wanted to make the truck move so you do what you have to do sometimes… Well I’m one more step towards getting the truck mobile again. I extended one of the Cherokee driveshaft’s I have laying around. There’s really not much to this, and I’m hoping I can get the thing to balance out later. If it won’t balance, well, I made a nice spare…
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The Lone Ranger – Stock Motor Mount Modification
I picked this trick up somewhere, but I cannot find the original thread that I saw it in. In a nutshell, I wanted a cheap/quick way to firm up the stock mounts, and help give them a chance to survive the extra forces they’ll see form the doubler. If these wind up not working out for me, I’ll swap them out with the Ruff Stuff Mounts that I have sitting here. I’m just tired of the detail work right now,…
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The Lone Ranger – Bronco II 23 Gallon Tank Swap
Since with the doubler in place, I cannot use the stock “coffin” tank that the rangers use. Here it is for a size reference: I picked up a tank from Rock Auto for a fuel injected Bronco II. Fed-Ex beat the snot out of the thing before I got it, but it still showed up at my door pretty quickly. I cleaned up the tank some and threw some rubberized undercoating on it: After grinding off the rivets on the…
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The Lone Ranger – Clocking the transfer case
Or I guess I could call this post “Pay attention to clearances”! I got the doubler put together and stuck it in the truck. Everything was looking pretty good until I tried to stick a drive shaft in it. That’s when I noticed something was a wee bit off: Yup, the dang drive shaft rubs the front case with everything lined up in a “stock” position. Had I taken a second to check this on the bench, I could have…