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Thanks for thinking of me with the seats. It would be a pretty serious drive that I might consider if his offering included the back seat. I wouldn't want to mismatch leather in front and fabric in back. I think for now I'll just leave the stock seats alone. They honestly don't look bad after my...

Sounds like correcting the issue is a hit and miss by simply lubing the splines, and the solution more likely to solve the problem permanently is simply to replace the drive shaft. With my tire diameter and gear ratio, critical speed at even 100 MPH is still a few hundred RPM below the...

Did that fix the issue for you?

Been giving the seats some more thought and might go a different direction than leather. Since this truck was intended for more off-road use, mainly desert roads and trails, I might just go with more "working man" seat covers, like these from Rough Country that appear to have excellent reviews...

To Hell and Back: The Whitemare Story

Just discovered that Tom Wood's drive line shop is less than 20 minutes from me. Looks like getting a one-piece drive shaft from them is a no-brainer.

I've got a big bottle of Lucas fuel treatment. Your Max-Clean looks like a good product. Nice of them to include the nozzle. Any adapter was long gone when I got the truck. By the way, I'm seriously considering the one-piece driveshaft. The start-up vibration in mine is very noticeable. It...

Oops. Won't be putting any fuel system cleaner in without one of these. Just ordered a 2-pack. Naturally there wasn't one with the vehicle. Something I didn't realize the Ranger has that's pretty nice is rear side motion alerts. I was slowly backing out of a parking spot when the alert started...

It's official. She's registered. Original title is out-of-State so an additional few weeks to receive the new one. Also got the alignment done this morning. Of course there had to be drama. Selected a place called Fat Bob's Garage that specializes in 4X4 and off-road work. Had some tires...

Thanks. Dealing with the film industry is like working with a herd of cats. You never know what they're going to do. Earnest Hemingway had a point when he said, "The best way to deal with Hollywood is to drive to the edge of town, throw your script at them and run away." I've met with dozens of...

Ideally I'd prefer to swap out the interior with leather from another Ranger. The seats are now clean. They got a thorough chemical cleaning with upholstery cleaner, scrubbing and an upholstery machine. What you can still see is not coming out because as mentioned, it's some kind of residue that...

What do you guys think of seat covers? Personally I'm not a big fan, but in this case I think they might be warranted. The interior was pretty nasty. I spent all day yesterday with the seats out cleaning the carpet and other areas and the seats. White dog hair everywhere and what appears to be...

It isn't just about money. I take personal pride in using my talents and skills to do things others think are too hard or unworthy. That's why I started my own tech companies 30 years ago instead of continuing to work for someone else. That's why I risked everything, and my reputation, to write...

Wow, that was a seriously long thread that started with a simple trim issue. Mine do have a couple of nicks in them so cleaning them up would be wise. Thank you for noticing that.

I figure I saved about $10k to $12K or more over purchasing a similar stock used Ranger and adding what I wanted, minus the bumper. Bought the Rough Country only because the stock one was mangled and has a silly number of components to reinstall. Obviously the Rough Country allows for a better...

I'm into it about $26k total and it has 35k miles. That includes the Roush wheels, DuraTrac tires, Eibach Pro-Truck Coilovers and rear shocks, Freedom Off Road upper control arms, BDS rear shackle lift, Husky flares, Rough Country Bumper, Rhino running boards, Vland LED DRL headlights, Ford...

Actually I hadn't heard or have read about that. I'll look into it, in the daylight.

I think it may have been one of those situations where the tech might have realized something wasn't quite right but didn't want to pull the windshield back out to see what was going on and just hoped the vehicle owner wouldn't notice or wouldn't care. Unfortunately the vehicle owner was me, Mr...

Thanks. I will, definitely.

I'm going to give the guys at this shop the benefit of the doubt on this one. They normally do good work otherwise. It will go back in for the redo sometime the week of October 14th. In the meantime got a couple more cans of Tuff Stuff upholstery cleaner and will go to town on the seats...