What did you do to your Ranger today?

[NTXTremor]

Thanks. I need some storage for basics like a small tool kit, small shovel, and jumper cables, etc. May have to look into this a Stage3 box.

I think you will really like the SwingCase. They make them for either side, and you can get them from Ford with the Ford logo for $10 more if that is to your liking.

I chose the passenger's side since I have a WolfHaus 12V connection on the driver's side to which I wanted to maintain easy access. You could also do both if you need more storage.

I am keeping a small set of tools, mechanic's gloves, a headlamp and ratchet straps in mine for now, but I am certain to add more to it until it is full.

My only complaint is that I wish that the semicircles on the lid were full circles to better hold cold snacks.

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[Grumpaw]

Side benefit to the damper. It was 17° the other day when I went to grab a bag of driveway salt at Lowe's. Good thing there's a Target in the same parking lot.

So I open the tailgate and it's slower than molasses and groaning and creaking the whole way down.

So slow that I could go get a Starbucks get a coffee and a muffin. I almost had the muffin completely finished by the time the tailgate was all the way down. =p

 

[subquark]

Lol, more anti-asian rhetoric.
Seen this fake/plastic rice claim many times and been proven false. Makes the frogs gay, too apparently.


Can't believe I logged out just to see that.

Hmm, not sure how offended I should be by all of this. The chip on my shoulder fell off once I was no longer a teenager but, you know, eggs and gay frogs are kind of triggering me (not even sure what trigger means, seems like it's what you say about anything you don't like - rather than just saying you don't like it?!?).

Anyway, I eat four eggs a day at least six days a week (and the seventh day is usually scrambled eggs that Kate makes).

So I have a hard time believing fake eggs would be real (except for some twisted vegan purpose) and just because I may, or may not, wear Speedos doesn't mean I'm a gay frog (not that I have anything against gay frogs - but I am from Québec).

My old timer idea of what a gay frog is - the ever happy Michigan J. Frog:

 

[ControlNode]

Thanks! Eruption Green is the limited Splash package color for the 2023 MY. Apparently very few dealers got them. I think it looks great!

I think it was limited to either 500 or 1,000 in that color, I can't recall right now.

 

[Bsthroop]

Looks very nice.
Any chance you will be doing a write up of the installation?

I will, but let me know if you have any questions in the interim.

 

[OrangeStreak]

Installed a new SwingCase from @Stage3Motorsports which required me to make a trip to Lowe's to buy yet another tap to clean the holes that were filled with spray in bed liner.

Saw a guy pull up in this beautiful '53 Merc. I complimented the guy on how nice his car was when asking him what year it was. He said, "It's a 53," and stormed off without even saying "Thank you." So I guess owners of '53 Mercs are either a$$holes or just hate talking about cars. Whatever.

Those mid-fifties Merc's were way to cool!

 

[9zero1790]

Tax return? Are you having shop do this? It's super easy if you're leveled and then it's a matter of crawling under with some socket wrenches and drain tray...

I missed the 4G part...

yep do it all myself. the 4g can still be worked on by average folks. tax return is buy all the stuff needed, parts, fluids etc.

 

[Msfitoy]

yep do it all myself. the 4g can still be worked on by average folks. tax return is buy all the stuff needed, parts, fluids etc.

Must be a small tax return lol...

 

[Azhang253]

1. Forscan ABS Bleed. WOW what a difference! It feels like it actually has brakes now! Kind of nuts that it would leave the factory with air in the line. I recommend everyone do this immediately. I used OBDLink EX.

2. Damper!

3. Neoprene Seat Covers (Universals from Amazon made by FH Group). They actually fit pretty darn well.

 

[AzScorpion]

1. Forscan ABS Bleed. WOW what a difference! It feels like it actually has brakes now! Kind of nuts that it would leave the factory with air in the line. I recommend everyone do this immediately. I used OBDLink EX.

2. Damper!

Even though you didn't have it as #1 I'll still give ya a t shirt. ?

Welcome to the club!!

 

[9zero1790]

Must be a small tax return lol...

no lie. too broke to pay attention this year

 

[Dr_Strangelove]

I had a strange issue after I had my windows tinted last weekend. It is legal to have your windshield tinted in Nevada if it is non-reflective and that is just what I did. (I only did 70 ceramic I'm not crazy.) Driving to work yesterday I noticed my lights were on and it was a typical sunny, cloudless day here. Great - I thought - I ruined the auto headlight function with my tint. After doing some research I found this should not be the case. Especially with such a light film. So I inspected the sensor on the dashboard and found that indeed some over-spray from the install soap was dried on there - but really not much. I wiped it clean and today my sensor could see the sun again. Everything back to normal and it had nothing to do with the new darkness.

I didn't think this was worthy of a thread but figured a PSA was due because this is something you could do to yourself just cleaning your windshield on your own.

For your time, a photo of the dirty, newly-tinted truck after I picked it up.

 

[Msfitoy]

I had a strange issue after I had my windows tinted last weekend. It is legal to have your windshield tinted in Nevada if it is non-reflective and that is just what I did. (I only did 70 ceramic I'm not crazy.) Driving to work yesterday I noticed my lights were on and it was a typical sunny, cloudless day here. Great - I thought - I ruined the auto headlight function with my tint. After doing some research I found this should not be the case. Especially with such a light film. So I inspected the sensor on the dashboard and found that indeed some over-spray from the install soap was dried on there - but really not much. I wiped it clean and today my sensor could see the sun again. Everything back to normal and it had nothing to do with the new darkness.

I didn't think this was worthy of a thread but figured a PSA was due because this is something you could do to yourself just cleaning your windshield on your own.

For your time, a photo of the dirty, newly-tinted truck after I picked it up.

That amber grille accent compliments the blue very nicely...

 

[Msfitoy]

1. Forscan ABS Bleed. WOW what a difference! It feels like it actually has brakes now! Kind of nuts that it would leave the factory with air in the line. I recommend everyone do this immediately. I used OBDLink EX.

2. Damper!

3. Neoprene Seat Covers (Universals from Amazon made by FH Group). They actually fit pretty darn well.

You can bleed brakes with software?

 

[Azhang253]

You can bleed brakes with software?

No necessarily; I'm not bleeding the brake line or caliper, but the ABS module. In most vehicles today, bleeding the ABS module will require a scantool. Luckily with Ford, we have ForScan, instead of a 10K SnapOn.

Here's a thread on this topic.

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