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The Lone Ranger – Death of a Cherokee
The Ranger has been kicked out of the garage for the past few days to allow me to strip down my other wheeler. I did grab a few photos of the XJ and the Ranger hanging out next to each other for a bit. Considering all the places I managed to squeeze that XJ in, the Ranger looks way overbuilt sitting next to it.
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The Lone Ranger – Stretching its legs
I borrowed a cherry picker to help me out with determining how much flex this thing has. It also helped me figure out what needs to be trimmed in the future. Other than trimming the front some, and coming up with some longer brake lines for the front, everything is looking pretty happy. For reference, there was 34” under the rear tire when it was in the air, and 30” under the front when it was in there air. It…
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The Lone Ranger – Rear Frame Trim and Bed Spacers
Since 14.5” was cut out of the front of the bed, I needed to cut out a chunk of the rear frame to get it tucked back under the bed again. If you recall, the first time I put the bed on the back of the truck, it had the frame hanging out like this: So it started out looking like this: I removed 11.5” From the rear (that’s as much as I could cut off and still get the…
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The Lone Ranger – Painting the Bed
Big day today, this fellow came over and promptly ran into my truck… After which, he got to work throwing paint on this in hastily thrown up Paint booth: Tack coat: Somewhere inbetween: Last coat: Turned out pretty good save for the dirt that came in on the last coat (The Three sided Paint booth isn’t without its flaws 😆 ) But it’ll work just fine for what it’s going to see in the future. I’ll get it slapped on…
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The Lone Ranger – Test fitting the bed
A few big steps today! The first being that the truck moves under its own power again, which allowed me to move it around enough to slap the bed back on it Back outside for the first time in a few weeks (Double low is sweet btw): Robs came by and gave me a hand getting the bed on the truck. I’m extremely happy with how it turned out. Note: The gap between the bed and cab is a little…