What did you do to your Ranger today?

[20XLRangerFraptor]

Shout out to @Venom_z89 @TerraMechE @20XLRangerFraptor killin it next level.

Thanks brother!!! Much appreciated!!! Chipping away one thing at a time!!!

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[20XLRangerFraptor]

Bronco coilover swap now done.

That’s pretty sick man!!! Anymore travel out of it? You still using ranger upper control arm? What other benefits by swapping that out?

 

[20XLRangerFraptor]

I haven't checked out this thread in awhile; it is heartening to see some proper villains at work.

As for me, I threw on some Bronco front control arms, cut fenders and went spring under on the rear:

Lower arm bolts on, upper needs a tapered reamer through the upright/spindle and the frame side is wider than the Ranger. Bronco upper arm ball joint is sweet; lots of hangulation. I think I had to find a 2005 Mercury Mountaineer inner tie rod that was the right length, too. Also pulled all the internal spacers out of the Ranger spec Bilstein 6112's to get shock travel decent for the Bronco control arms. CV axles are Frankensteined from Ranger and Bronco M190 parts. Jonesing for an M210 diff one of these days...

Only on 34's at the moment, but this helps quite a bit when flexing about.

Mostly for grins, but an XJ lift leaf pack and some laser cut shackles do allow more bump travel for a given ride height with the short body Bilstein 7100's.

Now I need to do like @Venom_z89 and get some Bronco mounts up front for some more damper options. Good work on that one.

Dude that’s pretty sick!! I’ve always wondered if the bronco control arm would bolt up to the ranger!!! That’s nice to know. I just cut my fenders this weekend as well!! Might have to start looking for some bronco control arms for a little wider stance until I go all out on long travel!!

 

[Colo_Ranger]

Installed the ARB bumper and Badlands winch yesterday. It was quite the chore, but well worth it. I still have to do the finishing touches, like fog lights, wiring the markers, and installing my Auxbeam lights for the spots. Shouldn't be more than another day.

 

[Venom_z89]

That’s pretty sick man!!! Anymore travel out of it? You still using ranger upper control arm? What other benefits by swapping that out?

With eibach pro shocks and icon uppers i got 9 inches of travel with this new set up i am at 11 inches of travel. Benefits more abundant shock choices i was originally going to run 2019 f150 shocks theyre same length as bronco and bolt in too just needed to use ranger top hat. Im at lift height i want without being heavily preloaded to achive that height. This also saves the shocks from possible over extension.

 

[Venom_z89]

Dude that’s pretty sick!! I’ve always wondered if the bronco control arm would bolt up to the ranger!!! That’s nice to know. I just cut my fenders this weekend as well!! Might have to start looking for some bronco control arms for a little wider stance until I go all out on long travel!!

In my opinion his is a true mid travel set up. Paired with aftermarket bronco upper definitely would be nice in the dirt. As is probably is quite nice and feels more planted.

 

[RedDakooter05]

Hmm, I need long travel suspension just to deal with the paved roads around here...

 

[ToddTheCanadian]

I am in Ontario Canada, and went down to NY to pick up my Prinsu rack. (6 weeks to have it delivered to Canada, 5 days if I went down to NY to pick it up) lol..

So I got home with it around 2pm Saturday, and had it done by 4pm Sunday. It was much more involved than I expected, but I got it done.

I added some marks across the trim for alignment, so that I would be able to measure the standoff position afterward.

I chamfered each hole and added some rust paint, and then some silicone prior to adding the plusNuts/rivNuts.

After this, I added some silicone around the stand-offs. (to prevent junk from filling in the gap. I t doesn't look like I took any detail pictures when I was done this part though.

I'm generally really impressed with the rack with a few minor exceptions. (Stainless T-track nuts should be standard, I'm ordering these separately but they are pricey. You'd think for the price of this rack, the hardware would be stainless.)
Instructions were literally non-existent. Multiple youtube vids were very helpful.

Another thing I noticed when installing is that the gutter trim was badly oxidized at both ends. It seems to be aluminum - so I'm not sure if this is a manufacturers defect. When I picked at it a bit, the whole paint sheath, came off in one piece. I cleaned it up and painted it (hopefully it holds?) My truck is a 2020, so I was surprised to see this.

Oh, I also installed those tailgate letters, which I was very happy with.

All in all, a very truck-centric weekend.
I am working on a shelf/drawer for the bed, and a cap/lid. I'll post more about those when I get them done.

 

[20XLRangerFraptor]

I haven't checked out this thread in awhile; it is heartening to see some proper villains at work.

As for me, I threw on some Bronco front control arms, cut fenders and went spring under on the rear:

Lower arm bolts on, upper needs a tapered reamer through the upright/spindle and the frame side is wider than the Ranger. Bronco upper arm ball joint is sweet; lots of hangulation. I think I had to find a 2005 Mercury Mountaineer inner tie rod that was the right length, too. Also pulled all the internal spacers out of the Ranger spec Bilstein 6112's to get shock travel decent for the Bronco control arms. CV axles are Frankensteined from Ranger and Bronco M190 parts. Jonesing for an M210 diff one of these days...

Only on 34's at the moment, but this helps quite a bit when flexing about.

Mostly for grins, but an XJ lift leaf pack and some laser cut shackles do allow more bump travel for a given ride height with the short body Bilstein 7100's.

Now I need to do like @Venom_z89 and get some Bronco mounts up front for some more damper options. Good work on that one.

I’d really like to know what all you had to do to get the bronco uppers to bolt to the frame? I know the spindle had to be reamed but what did you do since the bronco frame mounts were wider.

 

[underwhelmed]

Made my first mod to start my new topper camping set up. Installed the Wolfhaus 12v power point in the bed. High quality product, and easy to understand instructions (with nice photos for morons like me). Super easy and quick install.

Can‘t function check it until tomorrow, but looks great.

 

[TerraMechE]

@TerraMechE playing devils advocate do you remember what changes you had to do to axle shafts between both m190?

I bought new Motorcraft TX1082 and TX1083 Ranger axles and some used Bronco M190 axles off eBay. I replaced the Ranger center shafts with the longer Bronco center shafts.

I bought the new Ranger axles since my truck came with a tripod style inner CV and they were not compatible with the Bronco center shafts (tripod center shafts have a smaller inner spline). The TX1082/3 have the same 8-ball / Bronco style inner CV. I do not know why the Ranger has two different inner CV styles available (seems to correlate to tow packages, somehow).

I did find that the Ranger and Bronco outer CV's are more or less interchangeable in the Ranger hub/wheel bearing, save for a longer thread on the Bronco.

The Ranger inner CV's are different from the Bronco where they interface with the differential. The Ranger passenger side is female spline on the CV cup while the Bronco is male. I'm hazy on this detail now, but I think even the driver side shafts that plugged into the diff were different lengths.

If someone was starting with "8ball" Ranger inner CV's on their truck, I suppose all you would really need to buy is Bronco axles and just swap the inner CV's.

To summarize: Ranger 8-ball inner CVs plus Bronco M190 center shafts plus either Ranger or Bronco outer CVs worked for me.

All this for about 2" wider track width and a little bit of extra suspension travel... it is a pretty dumb hobby. I really like the truck this way, though.

 

[TerraMechE]

I’d really like to know what all you had to do to get the bronco uppers to bolt to the frame? I know the spindle had to be reamed but what did you do since the bronco frame mounts were wider.

I started with Bronco upper control arm bolts and a bunch of washers... until I got some steel spacers made and welded onto the UCA mount. I did get to play around with some extra caster adjustment with the washers, lol.

 

[20XLRangerFraptor]

I started with Bronco upper control arm bolts and a bunch of washers... until I got some steel spacers made and welded onto the UCA mount. I did get to play around with some extra caster adjustment with the washers, lol.

That’s pretty cool!! I’m trying to find a set of arms right now. Getting nothing but scammer messages lol ?

 

[Venom_z89]

I bought new Motorcraft TX1082 and TX1083 Ranger axles and some used Bronco M190 axles off eBay. I replaced the Ranger center shafts with the longer Bronco center shafts.

I bought the new Ranger axles since my truck came with a tripod style inner CV and they were not compatible with the Bronco center shafts (tripod center shafts have a smaller inner spline). The TX1082/3 have the same 8-ball / Bronco style inner CV. I do not know why the Ranger has two different inner CV styles available (seems to correlate to tow packages, somehow).

I did find that the Ranger and Bronco outer CV's are more or less interchangeable in the Ranger hub/wheel bearing, save for a longer thread on the Bronco.

The Ranger inner CV's are different from the Bronco where they interface with the differential. The Ranger passenger side is female spline on the CV cup while the Bronco is male. I'm hazy on this detail now, but I think even the driver side shafts that plugged into the diff were different lengths.

If someone was starting with "8ball" Ranger inner CV's on their truck, I suppose all you would really need to buy is Bronco axles and just swap the inner CV's.

To summarize: Ranger 8-ball inner CVs plus Bronco M190 center shafts plus either Ranger or Bronco outer CVs worked for me.

All this for about 2" wider track width and a little bit of extra suspension travel... it is a pretty dumb hobby. I really like the truck this way, though.

Thank you for that bro i found a set of lowers for cheap might do this if price is right until i can build mine. You got a bad ass build.

 

[Venom_z89]

I bought new Motorcraft TX1082 and TX1083 Ranger axles and some used Bronco M190 axles off eBay. I replaced the Ranger center shafts with the longer Bronco center shafts.

I bought the new Ranger axles since my truck came with a tripod style inner CV and they were not compatible with the Bronco center shafts (tripod center shafts have a smaller inner spline). The TX1082/3 have the same 8-ball / Bronco style inner CV. I do not know why the Ranger has two different inner CV styles available (seems to correlate to tow packages, somehow).

I did find that the Ranger and Bronco outer CV's are more or less interchangeable in the Ranger hub/wheel bearing, save for a longer thread on the Bronco.

The Ranger inner CV's are different from the Bronco where they interface with the differential. The Ranger passenger side is female spline on the CV cup while the Bronco is male. I'm hazy on this detail now, but I think even the driver side shafts that plugged into the diff were different lengths.

If someone was starting with "8ball" Ranger inner CV's on their truck, I suppose all you would really need to buy is Bronco axles and just swap the inner CV's.

To summarize: Ranger 8-ball inner CVs plus Bronco M190 center shafts plus either Ranger or Bronco outer CVs worked for me.

All this for about 2" wider track width and a little bit of extra suspension travel... it is a pretty dumb hobby. I really like the truck this way, though.

Hmmm maybe but yea i have the 3 bearing style.

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