The Georgia Peach, the rebuild of my 85 ranger

hmm what am i making with these? 9/16 tap and 31/64 drill bit







a jig to align the triangulated bushing to the stock bushing :)



now on to the tabs



works pretty good







tacked in place



now to connect the bushing to the arm using this fancy DOM tubing

I've got the lca triangulated and a bag in there!







Id say that's plant of bag mount clearance :)







Welded up the bag mount



Moved the uca mount inwards



Got the uca mount finished up I love the plasma cutter!









Test fitted a 20 Got plenty clearance

Lf bag mount gussets :)



Upper mount moved in

Braced off



Here's your horizontal Gusset :)

got the passenger side done. all mocked up ready to hit the floor and dam if the rails tried to buckle inward. i was going to finish the engine xmember after i put it on the car lift BUT looks like im going to have to pull the motor and temp brace it before i do that so i can move it/cycle the suspension.



my view from about 1 foot below the new roof



Got it moved to the car lift so I can work the crossmember.



Started bracing the engine crossmember with shark plates.





Not a bad fit for freehand plasma :)



Got the front pieces cut out but sadly no pics, game was called due to rain(for those not up to speed with the class the shop is getting a new roof)



now the class is up to date. if it will quit raining after work, i can make some dam progress!

looking great~

well we got the roof on teh shop over the lift kinda. but the roof beside is gone now. but i did get the shark plates welded in last night :)







inside the rails of the transitions just for fun

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right

Looks to be coming along nicely. Keep it up!

nice dirt dobber nest

lookin good james boy!

lovin these rangers, its the boxy look that makes them kool.

The flat 1/4 plate trailin arms are dope!

yea the dirt dobbers infested the shop. they are all pretty much gone now since it has a new roof :) those are MMW arms.

Fabed up the radius ARM delete crossmember using my old SD crossmember for a reference. Used the 2 existing holes and added the 3rd. That's 1 in 1/8 wall tube so it should be plenty strong for a non load carrying crossmember.









Clears the ground by about 1/4 in.

And a good side shot