Recent content by Dantheman1540

Went to the Offroad park by my house this morning “Ol Florida off road” and put this thing to work. I went solo so I didn’t get any cool pics climbing the man made obstacles, and only snapped a few when I was alone on a trail. Today was supposed to be jeeps only but my neighbor is one of the...

New blower motor resistor is a life saver! All levels of fan seem more powerful and strangely enough the truck hasn’t gotten warm since I replaced it. If I haven’t made it clear before, I freaking love this truck! Even as a daily driver it’s just great. I just inherited a 1996 GMC K2500 I’m...

Hot metal fabrication built it as a weld it yourself kit and sent it to me. I miged it up in half a day or so. I love it! I’ve put a lot of junk on it, and it’s really rated for heavy rooftop tents and two people to sleep on it. Just gotta make sure you get a rack tall enough to go over the cab...

Sounds like work even with a V6, if it catches fire again I’ll deal with it :icon_twisted:

Replaced blower motor resistor finally, there was so much crap down in the hole I was shocked. Everything was charred and covered in ash too so that was definitely the cause of the smoke pouring out the vents. I didn’t have a great way to clean it out so I grabbed what I could with mechanical...

Almost died today on an adventure but it was totally not ranger related. I just set nearly to high of a goal to achieve which was paddling 8 miles up a stiff current with no joke 100+ logs blocking the creek, and some rapids which I didn’t know existed in Florida. Was a grand time tho and I...

Another short trip to a hiking spot, then washed the pig. Still getting warm on extended drives, but I think it’s actually related to the AC being on. Gonna look at pressures tomorrow I might have to much in it causing the condenser to get hotter than normal.

I think I caught mine on fire, this happened once before over a year ago. I started the truck up with the heater set to on, and smoke immediately pours out the vents. Try changing settings and nothing, rolled the windows and drove the rest of my 5 mins to work the entire time smoke was coming...

Another 50mile dirt tripped logged on this beautiful spring day. Lots of higher speed semi maintained dirt roads, then played around in a clay quarry like usual. Front locker did awesome, these tires work fantastic, and the suspension still impresses me. However I’m seriously annoyed at the...

I think I figured out my over heating at high speeds issue and it’s really a strange one. My pass rear brake was dragging and chewed the rotor and pad up pretty good. Not sure how I never felt it, but I drove about 60miles today and a good bit of it was sustained 60mph and the temp never moved...

Looks great nice job!

That’s something someone else suggested too, I just have a hard time imagining that 500rpm difference and no extra load is causing that much heat in the oil. I’m thinking the water pump is struggling to keep up although it’s new, or there’s junk blocking some passage somewhere. I’ve seen some...

Another good trip in the books, don’t believe anything broke either. However the slight overheating at speeds above 55mph is definitely still there. If I drop down to 50mph/2krpm it’s fine, but 60mph/2.5krpm and it gets warm fairly quickly. I experimented with turning the Efan off at speeds and...

I think the expensive Blitzkreig lock nuts fixed my bearing issue! Also the new U joint seems to have fixed the thrust washer not going on problem. I was able to get the thrust washer upgrade kit from Bronco Graveyard in on both sides. I like the triple washer setup with the soft washer in the...

Ran out of gas today for the first time since I was 16 in my first ranger. I knew I was low but I genuinely thought there was a fuel light that would pop on. I also did realize that the needle stop at E, it doesn’t go far past the end of the gauge like it does when it’s full. So I pulled off the...