What did you do to your Ranger today?

[Scatch85]

Ok put that AFE power intake on.

First impressions, not that great. Cheaper material than OEM.

OEM has metal washers to reenforce the bolt in spot and a gasket. This has neither and basically flexed into position.

While the intake side is bigger see, the opposite ends ID is smaller. The cheap plastic has thicker walls. This concerns me because of how this affects actually airflow.

If you go from small to large you should loose the max CFM available at that joint and just maintain the CFM available of the smaller diameter hose.

Maybe to clear up my thoughts.

If the OE intake is 10 square inches at the hood and then 6 square inches at the air box. Switching this for a aftermarket part that is 13 square inches at the hood and 5.5 square inches at the box should buy you zero advantage.

Convince me I didn't buy snake oil.

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[Dynawide]

Ok put that AFE power intake on.

First impressions, not that great. Cheaper material than OEM.

OEM has metal washers to reenforce the bolt in spot and a gasket. This has neither and basically flexed into position.

While the intake side is bigger see, the opposite ends ID is smaller. The cheap plastic has thicker walls. This concerns me because of how this affects actually airflow.

If you go from small to large you should loose the max CFM available at that joint and just maintain the CFM available of the smaller diameter hose.

Maybe to clear up my thoughts.

If the OE intake is 10 square inches at the hood and then 6 square inches at the air box. Switching this for a aftermarket part that is 13 square inches at the hood and 5.5 square inches at the box should buy you zero advantage.

Convince me I didn't buy snake oil.

Sorry but snake oil it is.

 

[RedDakooter05]

Too many people seem to think that snorkel sucks in air like an addict, sadly.
Air flow to that snorkel mouth is restricted with weather seals to begin with.

 

[JohnnyO]

New rear shocks. Plain old Monroes. See if this fixes the intermittent vibration. Had to get creative with the lower left nut, it was spinning inside the bracket that’s supposed to hold it in place. That was the only bolt with rust.

Vise grips alone wouldn't do it so I pounded in a flat screwdriver from the bottom and an awl from the top and used the breaker bar almost all the way. Get R Done. The other three bolts didn't give me any problems.

 

[JohnnyO]

 

[RedDakooter05]

New rear shocks. Plain old Monroes. See if this fixes the intermittent vibration. Had to get creative with the lower left nut, it was spinning inside the bracket that’s supposed to hold it in place. That was the only bolt with rust.

Anything is better than fords OEM supplier.

 

[SD4160]

Finished the unnecessarily rushed install of my Diode Dynamics tow hitch light kit. Looks great from 5 feet away.

Things didn't go as smoothly as I would have liked underneath lol.

I detailed my F-ups HERE.

Happy Father's day to all the other dads on here.

 

[Venom_z89]

Got the icon springs put in the rear. For reference I already had a 2.5” lift up front and these springs DWARF that. I guess my move to 35s won’t be much of a problem in the rear lol. Time to go to 3”+ up front! As far as ride these icons are an improvement over the stock springs for sure. Firmed up handling in corners and at high speed. That’s a stock height “highboy” in the back for anyone familiar with the older fords. The Ranger is now taller than that truck in the rear! ? (The Ranger has 255/85/16 toyo MTs on it )

I used 2019 2.7l 4x4 crewcab f150 rear shocks for your height get ton of flex. Ride pretty good specially high speed dirt.

 

[Venom_z89]

Honestly if by the time production gets rolling out and things are releasing and things kind of stay the same on 6G I may opt to just keep posting here on 5G as long as it's not against the rules.

I've never seen so much polarization.

And the continued misuse of the term price gouging is frying my brain cells.

Haters gonna hate, or like James franco said they hate us because Anus. Lol

 

[Venom_z89]

try not to cringe...
added some off road paint customization. the scratches i can take care of. the scrape is deep. like dent deep. im still a lil sick about it... thats almost the same spot that was fixed about a year ago when i had a wreck ?

Hell yea?I'd love to hit dirt with you.

 

[Jhbryaniv]

I got the little blue truck a smidge dirty today.

So I foamed it tonight.

Tomorrow it'll get the full detail treatment, and as long as the rain holds off, a polish and ceramic coating...

 

[MrBusses]

Got the bulletpoint phone mount for father's day and took a drive through the forest.

 

[Gims04]

Took some inspiration from @dangerranger16 and put in an overhead switch panel while installing my ditch lights. Got the Nilight Pods from a guy at work for $10. Couldn't beat the price. Also snapped the negative post sensor in the process and had to epoxy it back together.

 

[9zero1790]

That sucks Mark - a few inches lower and it would be even more expensive to fix. Take it back to the shop that did the work last year and tell them they missed a spot.

very true the led tail lights are expensive. plus id have to repair it. im broke ass at the moment so i may just leave the scrape and dent for a while... maybe get one of those band aid stickers to slap on for a while. too bad no decal says something like i got this off road while you were getting bud lite at target. just to poke fun at the mall crawlers.

 

[9zero1790]

installed my cactus stickers, 2 reasons for the cactus sticker, first is obviously because of the color of the truck (Cactus grey for the one who didn't catch it!) and 2nd, my late uncle called me his little cactus when I was a kid, because of my attitude and everything else!

if you think it'S cheesy, I don't care!
I learned long time ago that I cannot please everyone and as long as my wife is happy, i'm happy!

i think the cactus is cool. different from all the other stickers so far.

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