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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:
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The Lone Ranger – 1354 Manual Linkage
This turned out to be a bit of a pain in the butt to figure out, as the D.D. kit has a bump out that blocks direct access to the linkage. This is becomes even more of an issue if you clock your case up as I have. For the Arm on the case, I wound up using part of the clutch linkage off an older F series pickup, and slapped it on the case. It turns out that the…
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The Lone Ranger – Crawl Box Upgrade
After killing the 1350 crawl box on our trip (rear T-case loosened up because I forgot to lock-tite the bolt, guess I shouldn’t drink while wrenching), I needed to get something fixed quickly. When the rear t-case came out of alignment, it put enough side load on the crawl box shift forks to kill the nylon that was there, and gave it some metal on metal contact. Eventually killing the fork and letting the box come out of gear: So…