What did you do to your Ranger today?

[subquark]

Friggin’ contractors leaving their crap everywhere. @subquark is on the way with Soupie’s tire plug kit.

Yep, hang on!

And Duke, you‘ve given me a brilliant idea! I like to think of Soupie as utilitarean, so I should make amagnetic sweeper to hang off the back to suck up nails and screws.

hmm, from Grainger:

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[DukeCanBuildit]

Yep, hang on!

And Duke, you‘ve given me a brilliant idea! I like to think of Soupie as utilitarean, so I should make amagnetic sweeper to hang off the back to suck up nails and screws.

hmm, from Grainger:

Definitely off the back - that chin chain would mess everything up. ?

Dibs on getting my street done first. ?

 

[RedDakooter05]

They were $1,300 and took 3 months to get here. It's getting harder and harder to find aftermarket stuff for our trucks, unfortunately.

Yikes, that's a bit past my budget.

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Eh, *Puts on flame suit* The frontier's still got my eye. Don't like the direction that the "American" brands are going lately in terms of design, and ridiculous "tech" that I consider bloatware.


That said, Size increase aside I do like some of the design tweaks of the 6g ranger.

Off topic: Nice hat, Jake!?

 

[RedDakooter05]

Off topic: Nice hat, Jake!?

Thank you, Milady.

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Washed(wasted time) it, only a basic hose down cause it gets covered in cement dust at work anyway.

But since its spring, did some 303 applications.

Nice, but a whole picture would be more beautiful.

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Added the Ranch Hand grill guard. My son helped... Those who did it alone are way better than me. I'm still proud of it. ?

Looks great!

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Noted my five year Rangerversary . 41,140 miles. This has been a great truck and if I had it to do over, I would absolutely do it again. Right now it is hanging out in the barn . Predicted storms over the next few days that may include some hail. We had some last Friday. Fortunately the Ranger was under cover, even though these small ones probably wouldn't have done much harm.

No point in a wash and detail because we are at that time of year where everything is getting a good dusting of green pollen every day.

Happy Rangerversary, Gregg!

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Air Design door rocker panels went on...

Nice!

 

[gfitzge2]

Yep, hang on!

And Duke, you‘ve given me a brilliant idea! I like to think of Soupie as utilitarean, so I should make amagnetic sweeper to hang off the back to suck up nails and screws.

hmm, from Grainger:

APPROVED VENDOR Magnetic Hanging Sweeper: 72 in Magnet Lg, 1 3/4 in Magnet Ht, Mag. Pull Cap. 640 lb

Cool. At 640 lb. that thing could pull up manhole covers.

 

[9zero1790]

See, I knew you all loved me! =p

What helpful answers and, all kidding aside, probably the best answers as this is one of those odd behaviours that hopefully never happens again.

Maybe the truck finally felt bad for that one time it didn't start when I first got it (that dreaded "the truck is dead" which has been beat to death in our forum).

I guess starting by itself is much better than not starting at all. Maybe Soupie and I have become mind melded together! Sorry Soupie, but my brain constitute a downgrade to your programming! =D

i think it was one of those rare sequence of events / button pushes things. the alarm trigger mixed with the remote start may have a sort of priority order of commands to follow in the programming. maybe a computer reset of sorts. sometimes i miss the low tech cars and trucks. never had to wonder about what was happening with those.

 

[Cmar]

Definitely off the back - that chin chain would mess everything up. ?

Dibs on getting my street done first. ?

Hanging it off the back isn't going to help you though.

 

[Cmar]

Happy Rangerversary, Gregg!

How about these, this happened just to the north of us before Christmas last year. We copped it too but luckily only the edge. Fortunately I was home, and the Ranger under cover that day.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12...ie-and-sunshine-coast-storm-weather/103186032

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Hanging it off the back isn't going to help you though.

I know, it would be like driving a mine-sweeper in reverse but I was thinking more about my tires than his. ?

 

[Tracy Bowman]

How about these, this happened just to the north of us before Christmas last year. We copped it too but luckily only the edge. Fortunately I was home, and the Ranger under cover that day.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12...ie-and-sunshine-coast-storm-weather/103186032

Rarely do we have hail here (in my area), thankfully. That would be very scary!

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