I think the light comes out a little clearer and whiter. Old lenses were starting to fade. Nothing monumental but a little better.

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Pulled this boy from a 1st gen the junkyard for 30 bucks:



Mostly sanded:



Here it is painted up, probably not gonna get it on until I get home for winter break.

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Back home, so I put the hitch on last night. Now to wash the truck lol.

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Got a triball hitch:



Got some new lights for my toolbox, old on bottom and new on top:



In the box:



Getting trees for New Years:

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Huh, where did that come from?

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Hey where did you find the coil spacers? I couldn't find them anywhere

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2000 3.0 V6 auto xlt, 30in falcon wildpeak A/T, 3in Spindle lift.

The spacers I had were off of ebay. From some company called McBay Performance.

This looks about like the kit I had got:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Front-2-Re...ZWWKKE&vxp=mtr

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Nice looking truck! The lift you have on yours is about what I wanna do to mine. I am supposed to be getting a 99 4x4 xlt in gold this week sometime.

Odd I don't see many Rangers in gold on here. Or on the road.

Well the c4x4 bumper I found has brackets for a ranger with a body lift. So I'm getting the normal brackets from c4x4. Didn't figure this out until my bumper and lightbar were off. Got the bumper back on but the lightbar is off for now.

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Subscribed!

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2000 Ranger Sport 4.0L OHV 2WD A.K.A. "LA TROKA"
Suspension - 3" Doetsch Spindles and 2" Shackles, Rancho RS5000 Shocks
Audio - 4 Polk Audio DXi571 Speakers, Sony XAV-68BT Head Unit
Tires - 31x10.5x15
Communications - Cobra 19 DX IV and a 4' Red Fiberglass Antenna
Off Road Lights - KC Apollo Pro Spot Beam 150

Bumper is hopefully going on this weekend. Want to figure out how I going to do the lighting situation, old lightbar may or may not look right on the new bumper. That also got me thinking about putting a couple pods or these onto the back for reverse. Then that got me thinking about a camper top because I have been wanting one recently, but I have my toolbox that I like and no good place to store either of them while using the other, but I just found a camper top missing the rear window for only 50 bucks. Decisions....


And I desperately need new brakes, but again, I'm easily distracted by other mods.

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For the head lights, are they LED or halogen? I'm looking to get some LED lights on my 2000 Ford Ranger 4x4, but I don't know what to look for. I'm seeing lights on Amizon, Summit Racing, ect but I cannot find LED light bulbs with the right trade number on them. Is there any LED lights that are compatible with the O.E.M trade numbers? By the way, nice pick-up this is probably the best 2wd that I've ever seen.
-Geoff

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2000 Ranger XLT Supercab w/ stepside bed: 3.0 V6 Automatic transmission 4WD

I know I'm bumping this but I'll put this here to as the closing piece to this build thread:


Well it's been a long time since I have been on here and boy has stuff happened. Looks like the last thing I posted about here was back when I bought that offroad bumper. Long story short I spent a couple months messing with it, but eventually gave up because the end of my frame was ****eyed from the previous owner's wreck. So I sold that over the summer.

Not too much changed aesthetically other than taking the lightbar on and off a few times. I was about to invest in projector retrofits and roofracks... but things changed.

On December 13th, I was driving home from college for winter break. I fell asleep driving down interstate 26, roads were also wet. I woke up as I was sliding off the left side of the highway into the median, there were trees there so I punched it so I could try to pull back up the steep embankment. I somehow managed to pull back up onto the highway, but at this point I was still going around 70 mph. I slid over to the right side of the road (no other cars close to me thankfully) and started to slide off. I tried to save it again but the right rear tire caught and I flipped into the air. Before I could spin one full rotation I collided with a tree midair, bottom of the truck first, right where the cab and bed meet. The truck completely wrapped around the tree, the front and rear tires were within a foot of eachother. The truck slide down the tree to the ground. We estimate I hit the tree midair at about 60 mph. It hurt like hell. I had all my possessions with me because winter break, it was all thrown around my cab. My glasses were thrown off my face so I was completely blind. My toolbox ripped out of my bed and opened, throwing that stuff 20+ feet ahead of me through the trees.

Yada yada yada, I climbed out with nothing but a sore back. Got carted off to the local hospital and got some painkillers but was completely fine. Truck obviously got totalled as I broke it in half. It actually took insurance like a month and half to pay me for the loss, and I'm currently used car shopping while attempting to survive in college.

Another ranger/truck has been pretty much ruled out by my parents and the fact I can't find a decent one in the area. Currently investigating Subarus.

Oh, here is a picture:

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Holy crap man, sounds straight out of a horror story... I'm glad you lived, sorry about the truck.

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Baby Girl: 2006 White Ranger XL with many memories. R.I.P. 1/26/15

Thanks man, glad to still be here.

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