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As some of you know, I just purchased an unusually clean 01 single cab steppie. I didn't have any "particular" plans for this one but it is developing into a project. It has most of what I wanted and more, power windows and door locks with both key fobs, fiberglass bed cover painted to match, automatic, dark interior.

Any proceeds I make from selling my other rangers will go directly into.... the bank to replace the inordinate amount of money I have already spent on this vehicle.


Even trucks in great shape need love. So far this is what I have done, and definitely have on the way for this truck:

1. I put the stock mach ford stereo in it for the mean time till I can extract the pioneer from the extended cab I own and are selling.
2. I have mevotech upper arms with balls and lower balls for the front on the way. What I don't have on the way is shocks man is that a sore subject how much do you have to send on shocks to get excellent ones? About ready to drop the coin for the bilsteins.
3. I have a steering wheel on the way. It looks in great shape I'll post the ebay picture. I'm sure it will look exactly like the pic when it arrives lol.
4. I have cruise pods for the wheel on the way.
5. I have a set of expo calipers red powder coated brand new and an expo set of rotors which I'm not sure is going to fit lol.
6. I have projector headlights on the way.
7. I extracted the door skins I bought 2 years ago and the control switches I bought 3 years ago or more from my storage... I know the door skin is going on being the phillips screw hole at the bottom did not bust like most of them I have seen including the one currently on the truck.
8. I have a pristine set of fiesta ST seats in black that would look really cool in there. I don't even have pictures of them but honestly they are in showroom condition.
9. I drug out the dark grey shorty console I have had for 6 years that I pulled from a 99 expo that black06XLT Adam helped me tear apart. I have already done one.


I have more dreams but I will only post the realities in this thread.

I have never seen one in this good of shape.












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Got my headlights today, got my UCA's yesterday and lower BJ's. Blower motor resistor in I have 2 to replace now I've done so many I could be asleep and get it right. I should just stock them.

Some before shots:
Later lol pizza is done.



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Headlights and grill:


Interior. The Mach radio is in but I might never turn it on, I have developing plans. If I say it, it won't happen so I will post as things materialize.













Took the cap off the driver front wheel bearing. I thought it was wasted because I could wiggle the wheel top to bottom. What I found was fresh grease and not nearly enough torque, I could turn it with my fingers. Going to take it off again anyway when I put the new UCA and lower ball on. It could be anything, a new bearing not pressed in far enough or just negligence on the part of the person putting the nit on.




Next up, the parts I really have so far.



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Good Start !
Truck looks good.



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Thanks. The array of available parts for 2001-2011 is far more diverse than the 98-00 models.

These are my headlights:




Or rather this is one of my 2 new headlights. Englush wuddent won ov meye phavorit subjecks.



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JAMMAN wrote:
Thanks. The array of available parts for 2001-2011 is far more diverse than the 98-00 models.

These are my headlights:




Or rather this is one of my 2 new headlights. Englush wuddent won ov meye phavorit subjecks.

Where did you get those? They're freakin nice man. I got some LEDs but they don't work very well in the stock headlight housings. And it took me a while to understand what you typed at the end :-P



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JAMMAN wrote:
Thanks. The array of available parts for 2001-2011 is far more diverse than the 98-00 models.

These are my headlights:




Or rather this is one of my 2 new headlights. Englush wuddent won ov meye phavorit subjecks.

Once installed, please get night time pictures !

I looked at these, liked the look of them, but didn't know one way or the other if they were any good or not.
You will be the trial and error person !   Sorry about that !

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Thanks guys and yes I'll take the pictures. Those are spyders, they are pricy but I think they look good too without looking too "custom".



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JAMMAN wrote:
Thanks guys and yes I'll take the pictures. Those are spyders, they are pricy but I think they look good too without looking too "custom".
Could almost be stock. Very sharp lookin. Might have to eat some pb&j sandwiches for lunch to get me sum o dem



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This came today:




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Steering wheel came tonight. Needs a bath but is in better shape than anything I have seen in person:










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VelociRanger wrote:
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Thanks. The array of available parts for 2001-2011 is far more diverse than the 98-00 models.

These are my headlights:




Or rather this is one of my 2 new headlights. Englush wuddent won ov meye phavorit subjecks.

Where did you get those? They're freakin nice man. I got some LEDs but they don't work very well in the stock headlight housings. And it took me a while to understand what you typed at the end :-P

I have heard bad things about Spyders beam patterns, I will be interested in knowing how well they work.

And yes, putting anything other than a halogen bulb in the stock reflectors is an act of self defeatism.  The reflectors depend on the light source being in one particular very important spot.  A LOT of engineering went into that.  'plug and play' HIDs and LEDs put this source in a different spot with predictably bad results.  Dedicated projectors or something like this is the ONLY way you can effective increase the light output.  You can always buy better halogen bulbs too.

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I'm stripping a truck in my garage, and I got an idea.

The silver 01 has a 3.73 open 7.5 with the usual leaky pinion seal.

The 4WD I'm stripping has a F7 which I have never seen, it's a 4.10 limited slip 7.5. And it is not leaking one bit, from anywhere. An hour of rubbing and I could paint it, it is that clean. Has the 10" brakes too which is unusual for a 7.5 or is it?

The 3.73 in the silver one has the small brakes.

These 2 trucks are literally 6 feet from each other for proper social distancing.

I'm thinking swap them out what do you think?



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I'd keep the 3.73 if it is for road use, off road then the lower 4.10 with ls would be better I think.



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My thought is since I literally live 1.9 miles from work the 4.1 would give me a better thrill on my short ride and the limited slip might let me drift a little on the way.

But moot point at the moment, had the opportunity to take the rear wheels off to get to the e-brake system which I wanted to put on the manual truck before I sold it and..... either the limited slip is fried or he replaced it with an open. There is literally no drag from side to side at all, feels more like an open than a fried limited slip.
So I'm not going to change it simply for the ratio if I gain nothing else.



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I want to get this strait in my head. The truck you are fixing up is the 01 XLT 2WD RC Steppie 3.0 auto Silver w/ 3:70 open diff.  You want to put a 4:10 LS under it out of one of the 4x4's you have?

The way I see it the 4:10 will accelerate a little bit quicker but fuel mileage will take a hit. You will be sliding or spinning a tire on tight corners so you will have uneven tire wear. Then there is it the re-programing of the ECU to get the speedometer correct. Any highway driving will have the engine screaming at 75 mph.

Going from 3:70 to 4:10 is not that much of a jump. That is a lot of work for not much gain.  I would look for a 3:70 LS  chunk or rear axle before I would swap over a 4:10.  If it was never going to leave asphalt I would leave the open diff in it.



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Yes I'm stripping a 4wd, but found out today the LS rear is scrap or has been replaced with an open so no go.



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Dang man, what a shame. The 4.10 are nice in my truck, granted I've got larger tires so the 4.10s over the 3.73 helped correct the speedo (mostly) and gave me acceleration back. Also the 10” brakes over the 9” ones seem to stop better. The LS is nice even on road when you, ya know, just HAVE to make to the next light quick fast and in a hurry.



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Is it a LS with wore out fluids that have lost all of their friction modifiers or a true open diff? Unless it has a tag you got to open it up.

When I got my Ranger I thought I had an open diff. At 70K miles the friction plates were slipping and it acted like a open diff. I researched the axle code and found I had a LS axle. I serviced it adding the friction modifier and I am chirping the tires going through corners. The last set of tires the passenger side was showing cords and the driver side could have gone another 15K miles. But those Goodyear were crappy tires to begin with. Horrible in wet weather. It was the passenger side that did all of the tire slipping.



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Well the bed is off now, I'll just look at the tag!



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looks like a L before that 10.To the left somewhere in the rust is a 4, if that straight stick was the 4 it would be farther to the left.

So you are saying I'm 2 bottles of oil and a friction modifier from being LS again?



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Maybe that is a 4, I have to take the tag off dangit.



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Confirmed, took tag off and scraped it. It is an L.



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So the bottom line is 4L10 75 8L17?

The last grouping is the plant it was manufactured at. The 75 means it is a 7.5" pumpkin. A 4L10 is a limited slip 410 ratio.  If there is no L and it is just a 410 then it is a open diff.

Sounds like you need to service the rear end to have LS.



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Do you still have the truck, how are things going ?



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