Time for me to stop lurkin, introducing Jedd the park Ranger.

[storey618]

i love everything about this

[Randomofodication]

Every goddamn time I open this thread I get the urge to buy a ranger. Damnit

[Rob_Da_Hood]

Love it

[projecthoarder]

I'm just going to leave these here. Happy Easter!





believe it or not, but I did this whole paint job in one day and its my favorite yet.

[FunfGang]

Loving this! Also I actually really dig the recent paintjob, looks very cool.

[projecthoarder]

Thanks man.
I finished the tailgate, painted the door handle's black, cleaned the steelies and tire shined the tires and went out cruising this morning, laid crossmember and broke necks all morning..... it was a good day.

[gearheaded]

Love this truck man, this build is one of those that just looks like fun! Keep it up!

[Teeson1111]

I love that you left the fender/corner untouched

[projecthoarder]

Thanks guys, well the other night I went to go start him up and drive home (I was 45 minutes from the shop) and his battery was dead, oh great so I go him jump started and started towards the shop. About 20 minutes later my gauge lights go out, their led so this should be a hint as to where this is going, by Flagler beach my headlights where so dim that I could barely see my mom in front of me. Then the battery dies again, stop and jump start him again and let the battery charge up.

started back again, made it 10 miles from the shop and he dies again, finally get him back about 2:30 in the morning. The next day I'm looking at the alternator and find this.


simple to fix, but I have wanted to put a 1 wire alternator in for a while to get rid of the last 3 wires on the firewall so he's back to waiting on parts again, beginning to think he just likes being shop art.

[projecthoarder]

Still haven't gotten my alternator so I've been doing some little things, started more block off plates on the dash and switched my toggle switch ignition to push button.
Before.

after.


Painted to match the other ones.



and while at the sunshine stance show yesterday I picked up a new license plate frame for my new vanity plate.

[SoLOwX3]

Looking sick man. Saw one on the road the other day in mint condition and thought about your truck. The only ranger body style I like thanks to your truck!!!

[projecthoarder]

Looking sick man. Saw one on the road the other day in mint condition and thought about your truck. The only ranger body style I like thanks to your truck!!!

Thanks man, there's a mint one around here that has a 5.0 in it that looks like it just rolled out of the factory, other then the v-8 rumble of course.

Update, I bought a gm 3 wire alternator off of a coworker who bought it for his dirt track car, but found a 3 wire alternator out of a lawn mower..... ( I'm serious, it pumps out over 40 amps, plenty for a dirt tracker).
On to the pics, test fit the alternator with the v-belt pulley.



The power out stud was fighting for space the the air cleaner housing already occupied.

Nothing a ball peen hammer couldn't fix.

Trimming the wires to length after swapping the pulley and drilling the mounting hole out slightly bigger (used a drill press to insure it was straight).

All soldered together, heat shrank, loomed, wired, and through a new belt on.

And went and took a couple pictures, but I'm only going to leave one.

[fackinsteve]

Your truck is ridiculous, i like it

[projecthoarder]

Your truck is ridiculous, i like it

Thanks man, you're s10 is looking good btw.

Photobucket finally uploaded the rest of the pictures, here are the other pictures I took yesterday.

[sleeps]

Wow. This thing is gnarly.