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Toyota Tacoma vs. Ford Ranger, Part XII - READ ONLY
1840 messages, Last post on Oct 02, 2002 at 4:10 PM
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What is this discussion about? Toyota Tacoma, Ford Ranger
#1327 of 1840 Came back to see by scape2
Jul 05, 2002 (9:08 pm)
if anything new.. Nope the Toyota crowd is still preaching the reliability garbage that I kept hearing back in 1998 when I bought my Ranger. I never stopped hearing... "your Ranger will fall apart" "The Ranger is garbage" "The Ranger cannot offroad"... Yada, Yada, Yada.... Well, my Ranger that was supposed to fall apart and breakdown hasn't.. it now has almost 72,000 miles on it. Miles spent on MT Hood, in the Tillamook National Forest, in Three Sisters/Bend area, MT St Helens. Your arguemnent of Toyota is just plain better because it has the Toyota name on it doesn't fly with me.. I spent at least 3K less for a like optioned Ranger in 1998.... And am sure glad I did..I would sure love to see a Tacoma rock climb.. In all my years I have yet to see a truck with its long wheelbase rock climb.. You Toyota boys take it way too far..
#1328 of 1840 Ok scape, by saddaddy
Jul 07, 2002 (12:16 pm)
I'll try and get some pics up for ya. Just b/c you don't have a locker in your long wheelbase truck doesn't mean all long wheelbase vehicles can't crawl. I might even dig up the pic of the SAS'ed Ranger - an awesome truck.How about this -- we'll make a little bet. I bet you I can come up with more tacoma rock crawling pics in the next 24 hours than you can find of Rangers crawling. If I win you owe me a set of BF goodies. Ready - GO! L8r man.
#1329 of 1840 Here goes by saddaddy
Jul 07, 2002 (1:03 pm)
http://www.tbfdotcom.com/burby/truckpics/martinez_canyon_4.htm#1332 of 1840 and a few more by saddaddy
Jul 07, 2002 (4:22 pm)
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=962771&uid=484006&members=1You better hurry scape - Im steppin up to 32"s this time and they ain't gonna be cheap. LOL
#1333 of 1840 2000 Ranger Trailhead by saleenracer83
Jul 07, 2002 (4:25 pm)
Hey everyone I was wondering if someone could answer this question for me... I own a 2000 Ranger Trailhead edition, it came from the factory with a 3 inch lift and bigger tires, made to look like a 4x4 without actually being one. Well the lifted look has grown old to me and I want to take the lift off so I can lower the truck using an airbag suspension system. What my question is is what type of lift is on the truck? Will I have to replace a bunch of suspension parts to return the truck to stock height, or is it only a matter of removing a few blocks? Thanks for you help!#1334 of 1840 Im not positive by saddaddy
Jul 07, 2002 (4:29 pm)
but are you sure that there is actually a "lift" on it or does it just have longer suspension components that make it sit higher. It may just have a body lift that is simple to take out, but if it just has longer/taller suspension components, you are probably looking at more $$$. Some of the Ford guys will chime in here sometime, although it has been fairly slow lately.#1335 of 1840 trailheader man.......... by tbunder
Jul 07, 2002 (9:53 pm)
please, please don't lower a cool truck like the trailhead. the trailhead is a very very rare truck. and no, it doesn't have any type of lift on it at all. it's just ranger 4x4 suspension- with torsion bars, so it will be very hard to bring down anyways. spare the truck from your bad judgment and trade it in on a regular 4x2 ranger. that's almost as bad as yanking the 4.6 out of a mustang gt and putting in the optional V6. yuk!#1336 of 1840 sorry saleen, by eagle63
Jul 08, 2002 (6:25 am)
but I have to agree with tbunder here. lowering a truck is just plain wrong.
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