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finally got around to changing the front/rear diff fluid as well as the transfer case. everything went very smoothly. the fill and drain bolt on the rear diff were looser than i expected, and there was some black grime around the fill bolt. unsure of what that suggests. could be road grime. i...

no joke just went through the caliper turn in process last month. Not any fun. Glad you fought through it!

I see your point. I’ll double check the clearance on it and adjust as necessary. I was a bit surprised how much the clamps tightened down. Probably could’ve gotten away with a hose clamp one size down. Ah well. Thanks for the advice tho!

yeah I was careful to use the word correlation and note that I’m guessing anyway. Dang. Sorry yall had to deal with that crap.

truthfully, I have a suspicion that there’s a strong correlation between towing and having a healthy transmission. Just seems like this threads regular towers don’t have issues. I just suspect the Ranger wasn’t heavy enough for the 10R80, so the towing makes it work in a way that makes it happy...

Quick follow up, here’s the finished product I came up with: listening to the advice of others I made the hose a bit longer than the stock hose so it would flex away from the belt. Once I tried to install I felt I made it too long and it was pressing the rotation on the clutch assembly. I...

I don’t know what drives the advertisements on this site but your post and this advertisement right after it cracked me up: anyway, I understand your feelings. I do think Ford’s last couple of years with the 10R80 have improved with the redesigned parts on the F-150, and everyone says the...

awesome, thanks for the follow up!

has the replacement arm rest held up over time? or has it begun to fall apart like its predecessor?

shout out to this thread because when it got posted in november i checked the hose on my ranger and it was cracking/beginning to dry rot. today i checked it again and she rotted through: i may not have caught this before catastrophe were it not for this thread. especially since i'm out of...

i was wondering what engine the US model would add. the 3.0L diesel is such a ford choice. not because it's a bad choice. i wanna be clear about that. it's a ford choice because the diesel will scare away some buyers who don't wanna deal with it, which will prevent it from really eating into...

dang, she real... whether or not the US gets it is the real question.

when I just swapped my rear brakes and rotors at nearly 80k miles I checked the slide pins. Oddly the grease on them was still in good shape. I probably should’ve wiped them down and re-greased them but just didn’t. Brakes are silent for now. Maybe at some point I’ll pull the pins and grease...

this is a good idea to pay for the TSB test. The test drive will ring up the diagnostic test fee since my warranty is a CPO warranty. So it’s like $150 or $200 just to have them drive it. That ain’t worth it cuz I already know what they’ll say. We all know lol

as things are slowly warming up a bit, my truck is way more sluggish after starting (and letting it idle a good bit) and running the a/c. i actually called my local dealer who has typically always been fantastic for me. i asked about the latest TSB and he said ford corporate says they're not...

for me, you nailed several reasons why i probably over maintain. some added things (again, for me): - as earlier discussed here, TCO stuff from the manufacturers is this battle between engineers and marketing. extremely difficult for someone outside the company to decipher the truth, so we have...

did the rear brakes last week (as posted) and this week had the time to get after the fronts. the dealer had been nagging me about the rears, but the fronts not so much. i took the front caliper off and saw the pads had loads of life left. 6mm on the micrometer. i decided to button things back...

just for your consideration, I swore I saw that the gasket is re-usable. Just in case you’d like to save some coin.

Supposedly they skip the "flash ecu" and annoying tests that involve them trying one thing and sending you home just to find out it didn't work, then repeat (terrible sentence there, sorry). now they go into some kind of a direct test on the CDF drum. from what i've read, you just need to go in...

Had some time so I attacked my rear brakes. living in Ohio, those rear rotors really needed some persuasion to come off. Otherwise everything really went without a hitch. Driver side rotor didn’t go on completely, so I really had to clean some surface rust off the hub with a wire brush and...