Ranger Rebuild

[Fordguy77]

So now that i am done with school and out of work for a while, its time to start rebuilding the ranger.
I'm planning on boring the block over .020, putting in a more aggressive cam, as well as porting my heads to match the intake as well as the headers. I am also going to port the intake to match the plenum. Luckily one of my friend who drag races has a full on home made flow system to test my heads when they are done to see any gains. I am not expecting much, but it will be cool to see what they do before vs after. I also figured this would be a wonderful time to replace my non functional t-case with a manual t-case.
The one thing that is in my favor about this is i already had an extra 4.0L for another project. So now i am just in tear down stage.
Heres some pics of the motor(previous owner took care of it just so great cant ya tell?)

[Fordguy77]

This motor has taught me a lot, just because someone says they work on cars and such, does not mean that they actually do. A friend of the decided that he wanted to help me back when this was still in the explorer. I told him to drain the oil....well come to find out the oil was never drained and he stripped out my plug :mad
Now if i was out home this would not be any big deal. i'd just drill a hole through the plug, and in goes the easy out and wala oil drainage. But because this is at the 's house, i am stuck drivng back across town to get drill bits, and easy outs

[Fordguy77]

So i came to the conclusion, that i need a new oil pan. After i drilled a hole in it (accidentally went to far) and let all the oil drain out, i then got ready to use my easy out, well i get the easy out installed and right when i wrenched on it to take out the bolt...snap...so i now owe my dad a 5/16thss easy out. So i decided to say screw it, rolled the motor over(at this point i stopped caring if i spilled oil) and to my surprise only a little antifreeze came out. I continued to remove the oil pan and discovered that it has been off before(miss matching hardware) and that it has a crack in it, might be why this leaked so bad in the first place.

Look towards the inside of this corner and you can see the crack.

If you look real hard you can see a piece of the easy out.

[Fordguy77]

So as of last weekend i managed to loose all storing rights at the GF's house. Which totally sucks and ended up costing me $400 buck i didn't have between finding storage, and gas, and feeding my friend who helped me. It pretty much sucks.

[Chris]

Sorry to hear that Chris, sounds like you found somewhere new though.

[Fordguy77]

Heres the only pic i snapped of the block bare, i just finished finding my machinist and will be taking the block to Area Auto, after talking with my grandpa's friends, as well as Scott from Arvada Auto Tech.
The Block is going to be Bored .020 Over, and they are installing the freeze plugs as well as cam bearings for me. Hopefully with a week turn around.

[Fordguy77]

Chris previously posted:

[Fordguy77]

Finally heard back from my machine shop and i am good to pick up my motor on tuesday!!!!

[Fordguy77]

Still waiting on the machine shop, they had a bunch of race motors come in, so i got pushed to the back of the line. I have almost all my parts ordered, but still waiting on the machine shop and what they went with on the bore. I have to wait till Monday to order my new Cylinder heads.
So far i have;
Performance Cam
55mm Throttle Body
Headers
Gibson Exhaust System Stainless
BW1354 Manual T-Case(Finally Gonna Be 4x4)
New Rear Leafs (500# over stock)
Leveling Coils (Hopefully running 31's soon)
New Rancho Shocks
Steering Stabilizer

[Rob]

Fordboy77 previously posted:

[Fordguy77]

DrOldUnit previously posted:

[Rob]

Fordboy77 previously posted:

[Fordguy77]

I have the block pulled, just need to spend money on some bearings and it'd be set to go, if i dont swap in the 4spd.

[Fordguy77]

Today I ordered the Cylinder Heads and Center force Clutch/throw out bearing. Parts should start arriving soon, cant wait to get this thing going!

[Chris]

Fordboy77 previously posted:

[Rob]

Chris previously posted:

[Fordguy77]

So i am shopping for tires, and i have narrowed it down to these 2. Still trying to find some more reviews on the general.
http://www.4wheelparts.com/Tires/31x...&t_pn=BFG89796
http://www.4wheelparts.com/Tires/31X...GEN04568150000

[Rob]

I don't know anything about the General, but I run the BFGs on both my FJs and have been happy with them. By the way, you can get them for less than that at Discount Tire.