Brown Truck Under the Knife Project -Point of No Return!-

[6 Nebraska IDIs]

No kidding man. I was just happy to be finished with all the frickin drilling. lol

 

[6 Nebraska IDIs]

It took its first trip down the driveway today!
I almost didnt get it stopped before I got into the highway though, some idiot forgot to refill the brake master...

Here's a couple more teaser pics.

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[6 Nebraska IDIs]

Well I may have screwed my proportioning valve doing that stupid stunt with the brake master. The brake light keeps coming on and off. What can I do about it?

 

[FordGuy100]

Wow that has a really nice stance

When the brake light comes on, does your foot go to the floor pushing the peddle? Mine did that...

Anyways to adjust the porportioning valve drive in reverse and apply the brakes, they will adjust and firm up

 

[6 Nebraska IDIs]

Thanks Justin! I must say though, the rear of it is so much lower than the front right now its embarrassing! lol Im just waiting on some F350 rear lift blocks to compliment the ride height.

Yea, the light will start out off, and when i press on the brake pedal it will come on and the pedal will go to the floor, then the brakes will lock up and it will go out, then back on again.

 

[FordGuy100]

Yeah mine did that to me one morning (my brakes have been bad for a while, got air in the brakes so it kinda sucks ). Anyways I just pulled off on a side road. Went about 15mph in reverse, and stomped on the brakes. Did that a good 8 times and it was normal again

 

[6 Nebraska IDIs]

The new custom adjustable track bar.

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Made using the factory track bar. Cut, shortened 1" for adjustment, threaded with standard and reverse fine threads for proper adjustment using the turn sleeve. Sleeve and nuts were special machined as well, but the thing works like a charm!

 

[ne buckeye]

GREAT JOB

 

[subway]

sweet, i might have some lift blocks around still if needed.

 

[david85]

Only problem I see with having a track bar is a slight amount of lateral movement while traveling up and down. They solved that problem under this ford ranger, but as you can see it adds more moving parts. Don't mind me, just thinking out loud....

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[6 Nebraska IDIs]

Eh??? There is allot of crap going on under there!

 

[david85]

Eh??? There is allot of crap going on under there!

, you got that right! I thought it was interesting because the dual track bars keep the solid axle centered on the frame as it travels up and down. This truck was never intended for off road though.

 

[6 Nebraska IDIs]

It is a sweet design, and someone put some real brains behind it, but it looks really too complex to ever be used in a production vehicle. But someday I may be proved wrong. lol
I wondered if it could even go off road with that.

 

[david85]

It is a sweet design, and someone put some real brains behind it, but it looks really too complex to ever be used in a production vehicle. But someday I may be proved wrong. lol
I wondered if it could even go off road with that.

Actually its a late model ford ranger (1998-2000 I think), the electric version that is. They only made them for little while. Some are still on the road mostly in southern CA, but they are rare.

 

[6.9poweredscout]

i completely understand the track bar on a vehicle with coil springs. on my buddy's cherokee the track bar bushing was bad and when he hit a bump it death shimmy'd till he completely stopped.... on leafs.... doesn't make sense, the leaf springs hold it. none of the scouts have anything like that. yet i've seen leaf sprung jeeps with them. eh i dunno.

-Jon