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Will I trash my fuel injectors if I do this?

If you decide to get rid of it, I would be interested in the plow.

Mine is so rusty the floor pans are gone. I orginally bought it for the wheels, but then decided it would make a good play toy for going Off-Roading in. Heck I have everything but a used fuel pump laying around, including a used clutch out of a 79 Mustange that had a 2.3. I doubt Ill even sand the rust down where it is thru the primer. Unless I DP-90 it, then spray bomb it. Which means touch up's can be done in any parking lot (hehe).

I recently bought a rolled over S-10 Extended Cab to be my "Nice" 4x4. Which Ill trash, but then worry about spiffin up.

Good thing about Rangers is you don't feel bad when you trash one off roading. Same with the Nissan Pick-up that I used to tough truck. Charles

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This one has nice floors:

and the box only needs wheel arch panels. So this will be my custom wrecker, when I get an F450 4WD frame, another box to extend this box and make a wheel lift and a boom.

So it ought to be a fun project, I found an F450 PSD 2WD, that needs a tranny, so that might be a start, now to see when the building project can get stated and finished, or just lease/

Refinish King

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Refinish King

Really the best way to go with a Cab and Chassis is to by a used Wrecker Bed, or a new one. Add on wheel lifts often don't work as well as ones made to work with a wrecker bed. Slide in booms are like using an old Homles 440 bed (I started out on 440's and 480's). The best boom truck bed I have ever operated was a Jerr-Dan. Nice controlls, excellant boom, wheel lift controlls on the bed, unlike vulcan beds.

On something like a Ranger, if you try to tow something wide, long or heavy you will find the truck all over the road. Like a S-10 they just don't have the weight to them to pull.

Something else to watch out for is rear ends. F-Super Duty's and F-450's kill them. If the gear set doesn't go out, it's usually the drivers side axle & axle tube that do. Around here you can hardly find a rear end for one, and their are alot of them out here. About half or more of the

90 up light duty wreckers around here are either F-Super Duty's or F-450's. Charles
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Charles Bendig

I generally agree. But this was a specific situation that involved a large expense for little use, with better alternaticves IMHO. If I'm discouraged from expressing my own view then I may as well just stop participating. I try not to be rude or anything but I see nothing wrong with disagreeing about something here or there.

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SgtSilicon

I will not discourage you from posting here. Some people I would. I have no problem with you posting your point of views at all.

I work on a number of cars where people have not had the proper tools, and have damaged things. It tends to tweak my biskets, so to speak.

Just like people who say they can work on old cars, but not the newer computerized cars. Sure you have to learn a few new tricks. Sure newer cars have less room to access things mechanically. Yet the same basics of mechanics still apply.

Sometimes I get carried away and my posts come off very rude. Especially after a bad day, or a hard day. If I offended you, I am sorry. Charles

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Charles Bendig

Wanna play? Gotta pay. That's the bottom line.

Car repair is no longer "grease monkeying" or "turning wrenches". It's precision, hard, technical work.

Those that can do it, will profit and profit well. Those that can't just make work for the rest of the folks that can and make them even more money :). Joe--ASE Certified Parts Specialist & 10th Ann.Club Tech Director '80 Carousel Red Turbo T/A, 26k orig. '79 "Y89" 400/4 speed 10th Ann. T/A, 57k orig '84 Olds 88 Royale Bgm 2 dr, 307 "Rocket" (lol), 141k and still going.... '80 T/A project car...

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Bigjfig

A prophetic truth to that statement:

In the trenches, we get cars that the neighbor of the customer. Who is "Good" with cars, broke a plug housing on an injector, or pulled the wires out of the socket for the injector.

It's our job as professionals to stock the connectors for that socket, also the special crimpers and rubber boots for the plug. Then know where to locate the injectors, install the injector. Then do an injector balance test, which the neighbor knew nothing about, then tells the customer we ripped him off, after we fixed his screw up!

Refinish King

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Refinish King

Shh... don't let on that I work that hard. Charles

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Charles Bendig

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SgtSilicon

Yes Joe; if. If. But once again, I believe (and I could be mistaken) that the answer to the question could have been obtained without breaking all the injectors. Also, OEM is not always necessary. Sometimes after market stuff is better than OEM, and sometimes it is far worse (or so the prevailing wisdom seems to be). I'm not a mechanic so I don't have a clue if that's true. I was going by what was said by others who seemed to know more than me.

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