Ford Ranger Prerunner

[suicideneil]

Sweet, just love the motor under the hood- how much more scale do you want?

...very cool...LOVE the motor like that...What is that motor mount? seems i missed that somewhere...

[NickRummy]

Originally Posted by BitHed

...very cool...LOVE the motor like that...What is that motor mount? seems i missed that somewhere...

It's or a Hyper 7. I shaved off one side of it so that it would sit flush on a mount when it's on it's side. I had to open the slots up for the 4mm bolts too.

[Modding_out]

I want to see some progress You have a stellar build here, I have always adored scalers especially pre-runners (my all time fav) But I always talk my self out of building one, cause I wound never run it After putting all that work into it, I would be afraid of breaking it

I built a fully custom 4x4 stampede lat year, halve the parts I made my self the other halve were name brand.....The project originally started as a way to whoop up on the emaxx's....but now I have 3 maxxs. And my stampede sits as a shelf queen..and I hate shelf queens but I have no reason to run it cause of the maxxes, but I won't sell it because of all the effort I put into it, and if I did drive it I would be afraid of breaking it(even though I built it like a tank..go figure) SO were does that leave me?

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by Modding_out

SO were does that leave me?

Like a spare prick at a wedding...

[suicideneil]

Clear as mud ( the description of how it all fits together )

Looks good though, keeping it scale & therefore real(istic) = win :)

[NickRummy]

Alright. Made some good progress today! Still have some bugs to work out but I think this might just work.

Both the drop brackets are done and in place. I'm either going to have to reconfigure how the links are mounted or move the chassis mounts.



Here's a shot of the steering full lock to one side. I'm going to have to get some thinner head hardware because the clearances are pretty slim. It's REALLY close to being perfect though. I didn't have time to fab a cross link to connect the sides together. I will probably wait until I get the brackets in the right place anyways. I'm pretty sure I can get some rod ands that are a little smaller too.



I had to rig this side a little to get the bracket in the right place. Ideally I want the drop bracket in the middle of the chassis bracket so I have to rework this side.



The connection point for the drop bracket and the steering link is just barely below and just barely outside of the beam mount so the steering links follow the beam's travel almost perfectly.



That's it for now! I'll get some better hardware so the fit is better and see where I can move the mounts to make it work smoother. Then I'll make the cross link and mount the servo and give it a test.

[What's_nitro?]

Sweet man... I like that you're welding everything yourself.

[NickRummy]

Steering issues are starting to make my brain hurt so moving on to something else.

Specs are as follows:

- shock length extended 6.36" (47.75" to scale)
- shock length compressed 4.09" (30.7" to scale)
- Lower link length 8" eye to eye (60" to scale)

Here's sitting at ride height.



Here's the bump which is about 1.13" (8.5" to scale) of up travel. I don't think I'll get much more than this because the axle will hit the frame.



Here's the down travel. Drops out about 3.33" (25" to scale). So overall it has around 4.46" (33.5" to scale) of travel.

[NickRummy]

I got the stock rear fenders cut out. Ready to start building them up into a mold for some flared fenders. Also put together a mock up set of trailing arms.

[suicideneil]

Sweet. Flared fenders you say? I thought the stockers were already pretty flared...

[NickRummy]

Originally Posted by suicideneil

Sweet. Flared fenders you say? I thought the stockers were already pretty flared...

Nope, the stockers are a stepside. I plan on smoothing those out to a regular fender then adding in the extra flare that the prerunner fenders have. It's usually about 6" of added wheel coverage. To scale that would be like adding a 3/4" flare to these fenders Which is about what I'll need to get the rear tires to tuck.

[NickRummy]

Ok. A decent update. Link brackets are brazed on the chassis so the rear axle is somewhat placed. Still need to make upper links. I attached the shocks just to get an idea of how it'll look. They are to far forward toward the cab. Also I couldn't mount the lower link out toward the tire like I wanted because the mounting holes for the brackets on the axles stripped out.... Not sure how I'll solve that one.

Here's a shot of the body mounts.



Cab on. Obviously the shocks won't be fully extended at ride height.



Some drop out action



Probably pretty close to where it'll stop at full bump.



Took a little longer to get things done tonight. Gunther decided the floor mat my father in law got me is now his new bed when there is shop time. :icon_scra

[notatoy]

hey neil hows devon just got back from ilfracoomb ,

[suicideneil]

Sunny, but cold. This is the coldest winter for 30 years apparently- if I win the lotto any time soon Im moving somewhere warm...