have you been down the autobahnNever going to happen in my life time....
. what an experience that is going as fast as the car can go and not have to worry about getting a speeding ticket
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. what an experience that is going as fast as the car can go and not have to worry about getting a speeding ticket
Electric Chicken
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ill exclude yours since it is fixed up
but in general i heard all of the S10'S were POS
Electric Chicken
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I think they're fine to begin with but too many people beat on them.
true though i heard the ranger was choice at that time. yea i had a ranger and i beat the crap out of it
Electric Chicken
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Yeah my brother in law bought a brand new 2000 Ranger and it was super nice. Definitely better than my '01 S-10.
But the S-10 isn't a POS in the Pinto sense.
But the S-10 isn't a POS in the Pinto sense.
dont you mean in the chevette sense
Electric Chicken
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I think the older Rangers were as shitty as the older S-10s though. Maybe even more so.
Electric Chicken
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Pinto exploded when rearended.dont you mean in the chevette sense
i forgot about that
ironpony
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I had an '86 4x4 with the long box and the big V6. It kicked azz for a not full size.
What were you saying?
Duck
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They are. But I heard you can put a 350 in them.
My 89 Ranger can out-pull my F-150, my dad's F-100, or the Chevy C-10 he had before the F-100.
Bone stock 2.9L V6 with a 5 speed & 3.45 rear end.
Well its got aftermarket heads but they're not racing, they're just improvements over the crack-prone OEM heads.
Electric Chicken
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It's done a lot.
I'd like the specs on these vehicles.
If the bigger trucks are older and/or lower spec, it's no surprise.
Duck
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The F-150 is an 86, 302 V8, 4 speed auto, no idea about axle.
The F-100 is a '76 with a 300-6 engine, 3 on the tree, no idea about axle ratio but it sounds like it's redlining at 55 mph.
The C-10 was a '79 with a 250 "stump puller", 3 on the tree, and would run 70 mph ok. We ran it to Baltimore and back once, then later we took it to Tennessee and towed the Ranger home with it.
The Ranger was my grandpa' s.
He worked for GM his whole life, then in 1991 he moved from Illinois to TN & tried towing his 1993 Buick Century with it. It's 4 cylinder blew up about 100 miles into the trip.
He went to a dealer and the only pickup they had that wasn't full size but would tow that car was this Ranger.
Though it made it to TN just fine, he hated it because it was a Ford.
He beat the hell out of it
And this is funny because you gotta picture a 70 year old deaf guy driving like a drunk teenager but that's how he always drove.
My grandpa would lug it in third in his driveway then scream it in 2nd gear all the way into town.
Partly because he was deaf and hadn't had a stick-shift on decades and never looked at the tach, or the speedometer, but partly because he didn't give a damn.
After he died, my grandma gave it to me. It had a cracked head so we towed it home and had the engine completely remanufactured at a race shop. It's bored .020 or .040 over & it has those aftermarket heads but otherwise it's stock.
Well, you can definitely tell it was owned by a young man at some point. First thing I had to do was get the clutch fixed. Mechanic said he could see where whoever had it had a habit of dumping the clutch to spin the tires out. It was rode pretty hard.
That Sierra, on the other hand...looks and drives like it was a tow-behind on an RV. It's almost perfect despite its age.
Duck
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I've been wondering for ages what those RV people do with their tow behinds to prevent transmission destruction.
They seem to prefer tow bars over everything else.
I wonder if they disconnect the rear U-joint.
@wogelsby?
Even on a stick-shift, I've heard the oil pumps are driven by the input shaft, not the output. So if the engine isn't running, there's no lubrication.
I wonder if a machinist can Frankenstein a rear axle out of parts from a 4wd front axle so in the rear of a pickup or RWD car, it's a straight solid axle with the pumpkin in the center, except it's got hub locks like the front of a 4WD so when you tow it you simply unlock them and go. It would be the perfect tow-behind vehicle for a hardcore RV vagabond like wogelsby.
Electric Chicken
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Or let it burn up because they have no idea it's even a thing.
Duck
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That's a pain in the ass though.
On my ranger there are 4 bolts. 12 point heads and only room for the box end of a wrench, 1/8th of a turn each time & they're tight all the way out.
I think on my F-150 I'd need snap ring pliers & I'd have needle bearings falling out all over.
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