I am picking up the new owner at the airport tonight...

[Aaron]

It doesn't have torsion bars?

[Tom Courtright]

It has coils?
I've actually never seen a ranger,or explorer with coils, ford loves them torsion bars.

If money wasn't a problem id 6bt a 66 cadillac

[Cutterw]

The reason I say car or maybe a Dak is growing up I wasnt always into pickups and diesels.  But came my 16 birthday and I got my license and fell in love with this truck. 

But growing up I always wanted like a Dodge Stealth, never knew why but that was what I wanted.  But I do know I will always have more power than looks, already told my girlfriend that and she agreed.

Aaron, sorry for hijacking thread but you know ya got some ideas what you could do if wanting to restore or build something up.

[Aaron]

Yep, it has radius arms with a kinda weird split front axle deal, and coils...

My 393 2wd was the same way (minus the front axles), my dads 94 is the same way , and my brothers 94 explorer was the same.

I've never seen a ford with torsion bars? My 06 expedition, 02 explorer, 97 f250 were all coils.

The only thing I can think of with torsion bars off the top of my head is 1500 silverado (the 2000 body style)?

[Cumminalong]

The Fords have what's called TTB....Twin Traction Beams.

[blowin_soot]

Piece of cake to lift, even I did my own lift kit on my 87 f150.

[turbowarp]

If you run out of ideas for mods for your Ranger ... here is another Ford Ranger Kubota Conversion project idea.


Project Pictures

[NickBeek]

That is a pretty cool swap. Is there a story to go along with it somewhere?

[kenz]

Ford did put diesels in the ranger from the factory. '83's got a Mazda/Perkins diesel (59hp 90 torque). That was replaced with a Mitsubishi turbodiesel (86hp 134 torque). 1987 was the last year. So they are out there, just real rare and probably a little worse for wear. 

[lilfroger]

You can get a Ranger Diesel still to this day ... just not in the US. A brand new Ranger in the UK comes with a Duratorq 2.5 TDCi engine. 

But we dumb American's think diesel is dirty and it's not cost effective to bring to the US.

[Mitch]

That TTB was a pretty good idea. It works well for pre runners. It sucks on road though.

[04cumminsram]

had a 86 and yanked the diesel and put a 302 in it... ya the front end couldnt handle it but it was fun !

[Aaron]

I'm going to go check out the 92 cummins that I posted the craigslist ad for the other day. He updated his ad and has a couple new pictures, check it out!...

http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/1768233998.html

If I wasn't looking for a cummins then this could be a possibility...

http://cosprings.craigslist.org/pts/1769793518.html