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Posted: Tue Aug 19th, 2025 11:06 am

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JAMMAN
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I'm not quite sure the differences in the frames on these vehicles. What makes one frame rust through in several spots completely and some don't rust except for surface powder? Most of the ones you see from the Kentucky border all the way to the UP in Michigan look exactly like the white one above (unless the world of electronics throws me to the next page) and some just don't rot at all. I've got 2 at my house with no notable rust, frame or otherwise. I sold my neighbor John one that is solid as a rock.

Maybe material acquisition? some of the steel came from one place some from another? There are rangers that regardless of what you do the frames will rust. I've owned 2 that I drove every winter and they never rotted including the green one I'm putting the engine from the white one in. It seems indestructible. I started sliding on ice a few years ago, went several circles in the road, slid off and hit a sign sideways pushing the front drivers side of the bed in. I put it in 4 low, crawled off to work, pushed the bed back out from under with my foot, you can tell only if you look close. The sign didn't do well.

Maybe frame rot was Fords way of making some of them obsolete. They completely stopped making them in 2011, a run that lasted from late 82 if I remember correctly, and you can't drive an hour on public roads without seeing 3 or 4 of them AT LEAST.

It has to be crowned some day as the most incredible vehicle ever imagined because if it doesn't kill itself they never die 100%.

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