THE ONE THAT GOT SAVED

[@marlinmr7]

I know you cannot save them all yourself Jay but so glad to see this one was not only saved but that you took it for yourself! Problem now is I am jealous!! You have some fixing of things to do such as the muffler and brake line you mentioned but so far it sounds good and sure looks good! Cannot wait to see more videos on it as it progresses along! Thank You! Cool! :-) :-) :-) Awesome!

[@jimh309]

I had over 210,000 miles on my 2.9 Ranger when it needed a transmission rebuild. It didn't fail, just busted out at the seems. I had it rebuilt and drove it another 20,000 miles and sold it for parts. The kid who bought it, did so for the transmission, but continued to drive and beat the snot out of it until it finally threw the timing chain at 280,000. He then pulled the transmission and sold it on - recouping his original price. Good buy my friend!

[@ryanwebb4578]

Congrats on saving it and getting her up and running again. I was sure hoping you were gonna save it and you did and got her running so nice job Jay. Glad you bought too. You can use it for work or something. There are a lot of things you could do to that Ranger like get cleaned up real good, fix whatever needs fixed on it still, get it lifted a little bit, etc. If i had that truck i would do a lot to it. So anyway i cant wait to see what you do with it. Again congrats on saving it and purchasing it. I will be looking forward to future videos. Take care Jay.

[@thefordmaniac]

Glad you kept this one. I had an 88 2.3 2wd 5 speed. couldn't kill that truck. Sold it when the right money came along. Miss that truck. Had a turbo coupe donor car for the turbo 2.3 swap...never happened sold both as a pair.

[@davekauffman8727]

You've got yourself a great truck Jay, I loved my little Bronco II, these trucks are very nice rigs and very easy to work on.

[@oddlyenough28]

Love these old Rangers. Treat it well and it will treat you well. I had an 87 reg cab with the 2.9 in Eddie Bauer green/tan that had 387k on the original engine. I miss that truck :/

[@bolensfanatic8770]

glad to see you save the ranger, great little trucks, i have had several over the years

[@johnnydeville5701]

Nice save! I kinda like the other truck more, but I do have a soft spot for 4x4 extended cab trucks too! I'm glad you saved this Ranger.

[@jaronking9484]

If I worked at a scrap yard like you I'd end up owning to many cars I'd want to save.

[@wildbill23c]

Local pick a part has had quite a few vehicles lately I would have loved to have bought :(. They had a CJ7 in there a while back that looked like someone's project, had a new 4.0L I6 crate engine in it, body was in great condition considering it was about 35-40 years old. F250 Lariat 460 4x4 that was in there body was in excellent condition. Really makes me wonder why some vehicles end up in pick a part yards...wouldn't surprise me if many of them would drive out of there if you threw fluids back in them and a battery and fuel.

[@RhinoXpress]

jay, you made the right choice in buying it. that truck doesn't need a lot of work to fix up and they're starting to become rare on the road now.

[@OldCarAlley]

The 2.9L is not that bad of a engine. The key is NOT revving the engine at higher RPM's COLD, and keep the oil changed often... like every three to five thousand miles. The return oil galleries get plugged up if the oil is not changed often enough... the same goes for the 2.3L also.

[@SurviventheOnslaught]

that's a sweet little truck that could be made into a great lookin ride for cheap

[@kevinisam]

Yeah nothing overly wrong with the 2.9 you just need to take care of them.

[@PapiDoesIt]

The same with any Ford V6, just keep the fluids changed and don't rev the crap out of them.

[@justinbelk2759]

2.9 isnt bad but id go with the 4.0 more power and last a really long time

[@gokartbuyer]

All They Found Was A Boot Except the Duratec 3.0l those little bastards love to rev

[@justsumguy2u]

This will be a good series IF you keep up with it and do the work----if it's one of those vehicles you buy and we never hear anything about it again, not so good. Let's put this one back on the road!

[@b-radhotsauces3714]

What you have IS the highboy stx package. The stripes and the chrome dash are a dead giveaway. On the rear top of the bed there are holes for the chrome Stx badging which would have been chrome with black accents.

[@kylestivers4606]

Nice ranger. I had an 85 ford ranger that I put a 350 chevy engine and turbo 400 trans. It was a fun little truck.

[@Z3CHYD]

If the old one was a carbed v6 then it was a 2.8L which were made until 85. But the starter wires are basically the same

[@SovietRusalka]

Man you got a nice Ranger. I have a 2003 which is nothing but it's a nice truck you got there.

[@grizzleypeak]

That truck ain't even halfway used up The old Rangers are the ultimate small work truck. Better than a Toyota of the same period. Nobody makes a good little 4X4 work truck anymore. Good job saving that cool rig.

[@richardcline1337]

I had a 1989 Ranger. Traded for a 2003 but then when I heard that Ford was going to crap in their pants in 2012 and no longer make the Ranger, I bought a 2010 extended cab Ranger Sport with the 4.0 engine. Actually Ford dropped the Ranger in 2011 and to my way of thinking they had to be out of their minds to do so. I've seen the new "Ranger" from Australia and Japan and I HATE it! Almost as big as the F150, mostly plastic and enough electronic junk inside that you all but need a pilot's licence just to drive the piece of crap. No thank you, I'll keep my 2010 Ranger and just keep repairing it as long as I can find parts to do so. That 4.0 engine is tough as a battle tank and gets really decent gas mileage for a truck.

[@462ANIMAL]

Cool, I had a Bronco II. Years ago, put locking hubs on it.. It only had 100,000 miles on it but the rocker arms I think had a lot of wear or lifters sometimes lost pressure. It always started , didn't matter how cold it was-30c didn't stop it.

[@forterierocks]

Awesome little beater work truck, what's missing on the front of the engine alternator?

[@phantom3rdchannel]

i had an 86 with a 2.9 had 700k miles on the original motor. a local guy bought it and is still driving it. if you care for it and keep the oil changed they run forever

[@sirmugman]

that's not a hole that's a bloody gaping gcasuim!! good gods that's big, i hope the other truck went to a good home or was put in the to sell pile as those trucks from the late 80's earily 90's are geting rare and are only going to go up in price

[@paularcher4607]

chasm :)

[@wildbill23c]

Back when Ford built real trucks that will last forever when properly taken care of. No aftermarket console needed, go pull the console out of an explorer, along with the mounting hardware. It'll bolt right in. I put an explorer console in my 88 Bronco 2. The 2.9L V6 is fuel injected, they don't make a carbureted version of the 2.9L V6. The 2.8L V6 was carbureted and was used in 84 and 85 rangers and bronco 2's. In 86 they went to the 2.9L V6.

[@napadave100]

Good save jay. Always loved the little ranger pickups.

[@torythefanman]

Glad it got saved! Cant wait to see more of what you do with it.

[@Jpk516]

That thing sounds good... I've always wanted one of those old rangers. Congrats on the find!

[@fedrooster]

Always loved those square bodied super cab 4X4s.

[@sberrysrtcakes3810]

Enjoy your new project. Hope it gives you another 150 thousand miles.

[@typicalendurorider8016]

Thank you so much for saving it man!!!!

[@gymesum]

Nothing like a old ford truck love 'em !

[@stevevarholy2011]

Congrats on the save! Those wire nuts, tho.

[@wyattklingensmith8862]

Get a 27 inch thrush glasspack from advanced auto for about 25, just put one on my ranger sounds great its a 3.0

[@OGKILLa9365]

Sweet little truck, if it where me i would swap a 5.0 mustang engine in it! And make it into a little pre-runner.

[@TheCuttingtorch]

Maybe it was said already, but those stripes are from the factory. Great save.

[@DrewsLair]

Just like my grandpa used to have, like the one he died in. Good save Jay!

[@sirmugman]

your showing your age there bub, saying rescue rangers heh, classic cartoon

[@robsrandomness7824]

Good 4 U. That needed saving. Pull a glove box from another Ranger if that one is missing.

[@flexmann2148]

update more on this truck Jay, thanks.

[@CubCadetMan71]

Almost bought one like that. 5 speed 4x4 91 ranger. Sold for 650 at an auction, but it had rust.

[@gilbertoperez424]

Hope you have a great time with that tuck my friend.

[@deepbludude4697]

I really like that old ranger clean lines, ok motor, man hubs, 4wd bonus. Like u not a fan of the Auto, but like the utilitarian aspect of it.

[@admiralalcatraz6080]

Much preferred the F150 personally, but looking forward to seeing what you do with it!

[@JoeManLARockinEmpire]

Jay you are the man kudos!

[@fixit4u73]

Nice score. Rangers are great little trucks!

[@HorsepowerGarageVideos]

2:43 wire nuts are the biggest sin you could commit in automotive wiring

[@AntCo0607]

Smoker windows!!!!!!! I love those!

[@williamcobbs1077]

I'm glad you saved the Ranger

[@mjmcomputers]

You made a good choice. That’s a neat little truck. Did you end up having to swap the starter out as well?

[@michaelsoileau8517]

Glad you saved it those rangers r getting harder to find I have my eye on one almost like yours I'm trying to find the owner to see what's wrong with it

[@BigJon22091]

Nice Truck Bro. So will this be a daily driver for work or a future project?

[@Corrosion37]

I knew you were gonna buy it when i saw the last video uploaded. I think most of us would have slapped ya if you didnt.

[@andrewplantagenet5811]

You should put a roll bar with lights on it and a grill guard as well. Plus a 281 or 302 v8 swap.

[@mjdoh831]

Jay you should do a garage check or like show all ur projects or somethin. Im just curious what cars u own.

[@RedBanksClassics]

I had a Bronco 2 back in the day, ford had a 2.8 a 2.9 and a 3.0 in those trucks. The 3.0 was the one to have, 2.9 next best I had the boat anchor 2.8 that blew the front seal everytime it reved past 3k lol.

[@wildbill23c]

The 3.0 was never an option in the bronco 2, it was an option in the 90's rangers though...too bad they ceased production on the bronco 2 in 90, would have been great to get one from the factory with the 4.0 in it...people are swapping in the 4.0's and the 302s though.

[@df6756]

good on you. nice truck

[@rickb8808]

The bodies on those vehicles are in good shape considering you get snow there and I assume they throw salt all over like they do here. Glad to see the Ranger was saved. They were holding a high value here when Ford stopped producing them. Now that they started making them again value might go down.

[@stevevarholy2011]

South Carolina goes a little light on the salt when it snows because it generally only sticks around 48 hours or so. This winter, Charleston was a mess for days because they didn't have any road salt and it was cold enough to hold the snow and ice for 3 for 4 days.

[@wildbill23c]

Value will keep going up on the older Rangers because they're a true compact pickup, unlike the garbage they're going to try and sell starting in 2019. The new Ranger isn't compact, its damn near the size of an F150.

[@Ka9radio_Mobile9]

Its nice that you can always rebuild a pick up. Don't for get to drain water!

[@nathankim7664]

The important question is Jay; didja EAT the Jellybeans in the Ranger??? Cuz you better ate them lol

[@Stressless2023]

Lmao

[@fiestatacotime4124]

Hahhahaa

[@gosportjamie]

That's a nice, straight old truck, it certainly looks like it had an easy life. That engine looks a lot like the European Cologne V6, though with a few tweaks to suit the US market, they were tough old engines as long as they had the oil changed regularly, but I suspect in a truck with 4-wheel drive and an auto it is probably going to deliver quite leisurely performance as they weren't too powerful but had a decent amount of torque. If it is a version of the Cologne engine I wonder if it has the same auto trans that the European cars ran too...

[@wildbill23c]

Transmission is an A4LD automatic, biggest piece of shit transmission Ford used. Yes, the 2.9L V6 is a Cologne engine, so was the 2.8L Carb'd V6 in the 84 and 85 models. Cologne German built engines were 1.8, 2.0, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9 and 4.0 litres

[@gosportjamie]

+William Todd The A4LD isn't that bad, they just require more regular servicing than perhaps the US market was prepared for. I know of plenty of A4LDs that have gone well past 150,000 miles without problems given religious servicing. The lock-up torque converter can be a pain sometimes, but usually a thorough flush and new fluid will get it working OK again. I didn't know there was a 1.8 litre Cologne V6, I guess that might have only been seen in German market Taunuses, or the 4.0 litre, maybe a US-only engine but I can imagine that must be a bit of a torque monster but the rest are all familiar, though it is, perhaps, a bit of a stretch to call the 2.6 a Cologne engine, certainly the version in the RS2600 Capri as pretty much all that shared with the Cologne engine was the basic block architecture, the rest was all pretty different as it was basically a road version of a race engine and then only slightly sanitised for the road as it was only built to homologate the car for touring car racing in Germany...

[@wildbill23c]

The A4LD isn't as bad behind the 2.9L V6 but in the 4.0L V6's they didn't fare too well at all. I've had 2 vehicles with that transmission and both required rebuilds, one rebuild didn't even make it a year...then again I don't think the transmission shop really knew what they were doing and just put the same cheap ass parts back in. My 88 Bronco 2's A4LD seems to be doing fine, its been about 1-1/2 years since AAMCO did the rebuild on it. The 93 Ranger A4LD was rebuilt by Cottman's Transmission shop...hmm probably why they're no longer in business LOL. Luckily the AAMCO I took my Bronco 2 to had an Ex-Ford mechanic working for them and explained in great detail what they were replacing and upgrading in my Bronco 2's tranny. Lots of junk cheap parts in those OEM transmissions, AAMCO does a rebuild and does upgrades too while they're doing the rebuild to make sure the transmission holds up. I also had them add an auxiliary tranny cooler. Heat kills automatic transmissions and the A4LD is prone to failure so for $250 its cheap insurance that the tranny won't get as hot. The valve bodies in the A4LD's are prone to failing and causing all sorts of problems...mainly you don't go anywhere LOL. You'll start losing gears, or delayed shifts, etc. Once that starts its only a matter of time before it stops altogether.

[@gosportjamie]

+William Todd I'm not surprised to hear that, the 2.9 is a pretty torquey motor though perhaps not as powerful as people might expect for an engine that size, so I would expect the 4.0 to be very torquey indeed so it's not really surprising it tends to kill A4LDs, the transmission wasn't really designed for anything bigger than the 2.9 and can even be a bit marginal behind 24 valve 2.9s. A lot of what you say applies to a lot of manufacturer-built automatic transmissions from that period. Certainly in Europe that was the period when manufacturers were changing from units made by outside companies such as Borg-Warner to ones made in-house to try to cut costs, forgetting that they were losing 50-60 more years experience of engineering and building autos to save that money. GM did the same, and their in-house autos were much worse, I don't think I've ever heard of one of the type used in their front-wheel drive stuff from that period making it as far as 100,000 miles without needing a full rebuild. You're right, a lot of the original parts in the transmission weren't as good as they might have been in a unit from an outside supplier, and it's not really surprising that most manufacturers have gone back to using units at least developed and engineered by outside specialists, if not actually built by them. Not that most modern autos are much cop, there almost all electronically controlled now and when those electronics go bleuch that's usually game over for the trans. The valve body problems can certainly be reduced by more regular fluid and filter changes, perhaps even more so than the manual says. A friend of the family is on his second 2.9i Scorpio with the A4LD and that's just about to pass 200,000 miles without the trans having been touched beyond servicing. His first, which got written off, was starting to have problems with slurring changes and slipping at 60,000 though, despite having it serviced at the required mileage (36,000 miles.) That one was used for towing though, whereas the current one isn't and it gets fluid and filter changes every 2 years (about 10-15,000 miles...)

[@RedBanksClassics]

Glad you saved that one. Great name “rescue ranger” jay smart

[@jaronking9484]

Cool u saved her. What are u going to do with the s10 now?

[@paulgorhamiii9926]

Good save brother.

[@JeniousJustin]

I love how the rangers look better, but the F150 was a nice truck too. Either way, these older models look a hell of a lot better than the new crap Ford is putting out.

[@wildbill23c]

Definitely, and need to keep the old Fords around to tow the new shit back to the dealer with.

[@firealarmguy100]

Hell yeah Jay I'm glad this one was able to be saved

[@focus82grothm]

Awesome. 😊

[@markhug5871]

Do you have a website and inventory list for sale?

[@johnwhitley2898]

GOOD CALL! Muffler, what?!?! Replace that with a $14.99 Turbo II and $6.00 of goodies: rattle gone and sound is good!!

[@pinstripingbybear.]

There is a kit that is sold on the Internet for those old square body Rangers that you can put a 5.0 Out of a Mustang or whatever you can get a 5.0 out of and make those little bastards fast... I did it to my father-in-law's 83 ranger and oh my God it made it incredibly fast because it's so light

[@offgriddlifestyle2544]

thanks for saving it .thank you

[@normanalvarez5751]

Good for you bro killer little truck

[@remcopeters4427]

What happened to the red mustang your old man was working on? And the foxbody?

[@chrisevans4061]

Hi am glad u bright it it was to good to crush it or scrap it

[@pcbullets8726]

Nice grab! Don't see many of those around anymore

[@upsidedowndog1256]

2.9 was a pretty good engine for Ford for that era. I would like to be disappointed ,I voted F150, but after all, I don't have to drive it! Good luck, hope it does what you want it to. (Lincoln V8 swap?).

[@jacobkaram5195]

do you have any Volvo s70s 1999?

[@mikeylegit3289]

Those keyless cars really are trending nowadays, in the junkyard

[@mrchevy7892]

Where are you guys located?

[@TAnimations]

Nice save!!

[@kylemartin7192]

Nice save man.

[@davidlogan4391]

Nice save Jay

[@adenanthony5257]

I knew it! I fucking love this thing.

[@icepop54367]

I didn't know the ranger was 4wd... Well shit now I see why you picked it and interior seems cleaner on this one. Alright nice usually those trucks rot out they're all rotted like the town and country here in Ohio

[@chellenahpingleton6176]

really nice ranger!

[@robinsparks4146]

It's a stx u can tell by the stripes an the emblem holes in the top corner of bed.

[@jwarehouse1]

The old Rangers are a cool body style, but, unless you are in love with it, clean it up and flip it. Should make a $1000-$1500 profit. Do it before transmission problems or cracks a head and then you are stuck with a turd. Look for a 88-96 F150 with 300 6 cyl and 5 speed stick.

[@trevorlozo396]

Can you do a video in the Ford freestar

[@michaelcaleb769]

It looks like someone took a shot gun to that muffler several times😂😂

[@jacobhogan6663]

Good save I think I asked this before but do you still have the 200$ Taurus ?

[@bradymoeller712]

Do u still have the s10?

[@Cruisewolf]

Autozone has the Thrush glasspack muffler in store for $ 23.99 :) it should fit..

[@chicagocinematic1995]

I’m shocked! I thought you’d pick the F150 for sure.

[@ProjectRescues]

cool. glad you saved it

[@maartenyzer4121]

Very good of you to pick it,once its oké you can sell it and wait for another bagain...youre close to the source meanwile enjoy great vids though....

[@jacobfletcher2823]

Is the S10 scrap now the engine died?

[@blacktrekkie5840]

What town in South Carolina are y'all in because I live in South Carolina and I might be interested in buying something from y'all in the future

[@brokenhearted1231]

Nice! And good save! Any plans for it???

[@redlineraphael]

Do a video on the white BMW

[@JackTheFox]

You should've recorded the first stsrt of it also :D That's what we wanna see. First start in X years

[@Vap3king]

What ever happened to the Fox body mustang?

[@justinbelk2759]

Jakob Gibson sold it

[@tombob671]

Glad you saved it

[@davidriskejr1104]

I wouldn't have let it go either I had an 88 Manuel rear wheel drive but the motor blew