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I just drove the dog snot out of this truck. It is running so much better. It shifts better and pulls better. The cats were clogged as I suspected. The exhaust drone makes me want to strangle kittens, but I will correct that later. It still labors with hills though. I think it might be a fuel...

The sheet metal is worse off than I thought. I cannot afford to replace it so I have to work with what I have. Someone tried to weld the four pieces together. That piece of molten slop was not holing anything together and I cut through it pretty easily. The sad part is I may have to weld the...

I pulled the drums to check the adjustments. All is well and the resistance I felt before was not there this time. Also, the brakes look new. The drums look like they were just installed.

Love it. I found old photographs of my Dodge when my Papa had it. That is a great find.

I have checked YT several times. I will be getting some parts from them soon I think. I found a close out deal on a carb kit I could not turn down on another site. I go to TSC all the time for feed. I did not think to look at there tractor parts. They may have had a carb kit in stock. Brain fart.

I am with you on that. I caught myself doing way more work than it needs yesterday.

Drove it for the first time today since my last go round. It still does not shift right. I did not drive it long enough to say for sure if there is any noticeable improvement. But I can say for sure there are still issues. I think there is something going on in the valve body. The exhaust is...

I have always wanted to restore one. This mat not be a restoration, but I am learning a lot.

In between all the other stuff I had going on today I got a few other things done. I got the air filter housing apart. The elements turned out well but the housing is still soaking. Underneath all that grease was a nice fuel tank. It also cleaned up quite well. No pin holes and not as much...

These parts were so caked up I could not distinguish the individual pieces. The canister containing the filter element in that condition now and I am working to clean it up.

I picked this 2N up a few months back and have not done much with it since. The deal I made with the seller was I wanted to see it run first. He got it running and it ran great. For a little while anyway... The fuel system was so clogged up I am amazed it ran at all. So the first thing I did...

I know, this is not a truck. But a truck pulled it home and it will be used to move non running trucks around the yard.

Some very minor dings on the top edge of the bed sides. Other than that is is pretty straight.

I finished up the exhaust and it is horrible. Those were by far the worse welds I have ever laid down. The material was terrible and the product I started with should have been scrapped. However, I tried to make it work anyway. I knew better and went against what I knew to be true. So, now I get...

locating the hard to find parts is one of the more enjoyable aspects of a build.

My 87 Ranger has an A4LD automatic in it. Since I got the truck it has shifted rough. It slams into gear when I put it in drive and reverse. It also shifts in and out of gear when I am on hills. It does it on flat ground as well but not as bad nor as often. I dropped the pan and it looked decent...

I found a super clean 86 four cylinder right before I found this STX. I was less than five minutes too late getting there.

Time for a new woman.

I think the the First Gens have so much more character to them.

I did not even come close to getting everything done this weekend. Between having to help friends unexpectedly and discovering more problems with the truck, I got very little accomplished. The funny thing here is I have several sets of jack stands. Yet they are all being used under other non...

I agree. A complete tear down is just not feasible. However, the First Gen Ranger has quite a following already. That is why I an not concerned about making my money back on the parts truck.

I was not planning on getting this in depth on this truck. But I have to face facts. I am addicted to truck builds. This is going to be a light going over. I still have my Papa’s truck waiting to get completed. Anyhoo, what we have a 1987 Ranger STX. It was in relatively good shape when I got...

That is cool. I have to do the same thing some times.

This is going to be a nice truck.