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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…
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The Lone Ranger – Aerostar Speedometer Cable Swap
Not much to say here, with the additional length of the doubler, the stock cable wouldn’t reach anymore. So it was suggested to use a cable from a 90’s Aerostar . Side by side, the Aerostar cable is about 15″ longer than the Extra Cab speedometer cable: