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as a Dayton area native, you haven’t missed that much. Every time I wanna get out and ride because it’s sunny the wind has been ridiculous. This may be the least I’ve ridden in the spring in a long time. Anyway, welcome to the forum!

dang! glad to hear you escaped that mostly unscathed!

maaaan that black PPE pan looks so good. shame it's on the bottom of the truck. i need to swap the transmission fluid on both my ranger AND my 4Runner... that's gonna be a saturday job.

Man this forum is awesome. Threads like this one! I’ll be watching along. I’ve thankfully not had major transmission issues, but it’s still good to see if people can come up with great ideas that help out. Thanks for your efforts in this, OP!

Aside from keeping your RPMs from getting too high, are there any other concerns with engine braking on this truck? I don’t fundamentally understand the forces at play through the driveline to confidently use engine brake.

yeah i've actually used S mode quite a bit. it's fantastic for me in limited settings, but it reeeeally hangs onto the low gear to keep RPMs up and that results in more engine breaking than i'd like. it's also a snatchy throttle so i don't love it for anything other than big acceleration pulls...

this didn't seem worth creating its own thread for, but the longer i drive my ranger the more in tune i become with how it likes to be driven. i've been doing some non-scientific testing with transmission response time to throttle input. when it comes to these modern 10 speed transmissions, and...

something not considered here is that these trucks are in an inline configuration. in boxer engines, v-formation engines, etc., the piston is subject to gravitational pull onto the cylinder wall as it runs. so even if excess gasoline is slowly cleaning the cylinder walls during idle, the inline...

YOOOO Let’s Go Pens!!! also love the truck, the color, and the thrifty used price snag! The Ranger Raptor is easily one of the top 3 most compelling trucks on the market for me right now. I don’t want a payment right now tho so… maybe in a few years.

Just drive it and enjoy it. Several forum members have noted on a variety of threads that there are “best practices” to get the best out of your transmission. for me, this includes allowing the engine to heat up a bit. This trucks transmission fluid doesn’t like being cold. Accelerate that...

i remember seeing this image: someone noted that the higher the inflation the more likely there was to be government regulation involved. i have no idea how accurate these numbers are.

IIRC Ford added PI in the 2025 MY for the 2.3L. I’d go for the 2.7L myself just because I’d like the V6 power and sound, but if Ford went the Bronco route and added a manual transmission option to the 2.3L I’d be on it immediately.

IIRC gates found some wunderkind who figured out how to run a nuclear reactor on nuclear waste. http://www.iaea.org/bulletin/when-nuclear-waste-is-an-asset-not-a-burden Maybe it wasn’t someone associated with gates. I just remember seeing it discussed years ago. I’m not smart enough to know if...

People always get hung up on government subsidies, but rarely mention what the government gets back. Google AI is telling me that Amazon reported over $22B in US tax contributions in 2024 alone. That’s as a company, payroll taxes, etc. Everything. Theoretically we should get back more than the...

I have the parking pass from a condo on Sanibel Island, FL. It was from our last visit right before Hurricane Ian shredded the island. We used to go to the condo almost annually. We’ve since been back, but the original condo association group sold out and some corporate realty group took it...

I mean what if I drive on a snowy road? My truck was never on the road, it was on the snow. OFF ROAD! Ohhh the humanity

Sorry to hear of this OP. But I’ll second this above idea. Way I see it is you have a few options: - just trade it and take a bath of equity lost, but you get to move on. - pay $15k to replace the engine - pay like $20-25k for the coyote conversion (I think that’s the cost I saw once). I wonder...

yeah my test drive of a 2024 that thing clunked hard at low speed. Only did it once and the rest of the drive I thought it was solid, but it was enough to know the clunks are still real.

mid summer, this is an easy replacement. In the absolute bowels of winter with a forecasted -8 degrees ahead, the project may idle for a bit as I await warmer days I thought it was the bugflector ii, but searches are showing that product doesn’t exist. Must’ve been the regular AVS bugflector...

What did I do TO my Ranger today? cleaning ice off the windshield and caught the deflector on my jacket pocket. Snappy snap. I don’t think the material liked 0 degree temps lol. Sigh, @Realtruck you probably will see some shekels coming your way soon lol