He’s jumping the ditch and there’s not any feedback in the air, so the redline helps you know where the wheels are.
Also at the dunes, when you’re bombing around corners in 2’ of powder sand, sometimes it’s hard to know exactly how far the weeks are from center. It’s not super useful to most...
The original design for the st line of vehicles was a massive improvement on performance, even now the edge st and whatnot are massively more powerful than the top of the line non-st edge. Focus/fiesta we’re even give close ratio manual gearboxes. With some small bolt one and a tune my focus st...
Generally normal on first oil changes for little killing and casting bits to come out. That said I’d recommend you take any direct injected turbo engine to maximum rpm’s for a few seconds minimum to get egg’s high enough to burn out excess carbon from the turbo and cats. Engines that are worked...
To chime in, my wife would get motion sick with the fx4 factory suspension, and she no longer does with the fox stuff. I left it at fox stock height and had the factory tires for another 15k after that, I got a little bigger tire, but it still fees better.
I changed my fx4 stuff at 40k it still ran like factory, but factory was pretty bad, especially when towing. I changed over to the fox branded (not ford) coil overs and rear shocks. They are pretty good, and definitely better towing, and on the off-road trails I use. The reason I went with the...
Junkyard leaf packs then switch them out for the broke ones right before you drop it off to get fixed :) not sure how many salvage yards exist where you are, but I could probably find dozens in my area.
I don’t believe there is a steering lock on the Ranger. Try and engage it by turning the wheel with the key off and out of the cylinder and nothing happens ( that or I’m weak)
well either case, you cannot remove the key from the ignition on anything with a physical key. Still a bad design if the trans remains in neutral and not park.
Any auto vehicle “designed” to flat tow that requires key on and in neutral is designed incorrectly. It should be key off in park t-case in neutral physically disconnected from output shaft. Nothing else is correct.
The gen5 ranger has a steering column grommet on both sides, the usa passenger side grommet is unused from what I recall. A good lip antenna mount works well, and has a good shot at the unused grommet.
Fwiw, I got my antenna in through the vents behind the rear seats, and installed the radio body there. Ram power down the drivers door side track, mounted the faceplate in the useless dash tray and put the external speaker in the arm rest console. My radio is a kenwood d710ga and my install is...
You can generally flat tow anything with a manual transmission, and anything that offers a neutral position on the transfer case. Old rangers had a “n” position on the 4wd selector, none of this flat tow mode bullshit.
I can also add that when the trans goes into failsafe, it stays in 7th gear. You can legit drive in 7th gear from a stop to about 65 mph without revving over like 3K. My output speed sensor failed and I spend a day in 7th gear before I could drop it off at the dealer. I'm sure it wasn't "good"...