I wish doing so made me money lol!

 

Very nice and clean truck but looks better on ground then on trailer LOL enjoy your new sharp ride

 

Installed!! They are a little bit smaller, but they still look beast!!!







putting this on today!

 

What happened to Sara? Did you dump her cause she bought you that pink shirt?

 

ok so you evidentally know me from a ranger forum, but I dont recognize the username LOL.

I had a red shirt on, we are happily married thank you

 

Glad to hear you are happily married!
Don't know you... I was just joking around since you took off the Scott & Sara plate for the new Ford plate

 

oh gotcha!! didnt think about that one ROFL. yeah ive always had a scott and sara plate on all my trucks and it was just time for a new plate and this NICE one popped up for $25 so i couldnt complain.

 

Such a beautiful truck, love it!

 

Im a little aggrevated and mad, but gotta do what I have to do. The truck is going in to get new exhaust as the Duals that are on it now are literally falling off of the truck. The only rust on the entire truck was the custom exhaust.

Going the get cat back custom exhaust done with Di/Do muffler. But on top of that, started to hear a dang tapping/flutter/rattling noise on acceleration and believe I have also developed the STUPID manifold leak problem. So now I have to address that. Oh the woes of a used truck

 

Looks good to me,especially like the large lamps you got in grill

 

Who's truck are you referring too that look beautiful?

 

mine i believe

 

That truck looks great! Those are monster tires for the stock wheels. I would have thought they'd be rubbing all over the upper control arms. Do they not?

 

yeah they do, cant wait till they come off

well changed out the passenger side exhaust manifold Saturday and it was NOT fun

Well we got her done, 7 hours for the first time ever doing it, and you guys were RIGHT! it was a major PITA. Luckily we were 8 for 8 on the studs, none broken, they all actually looked really good (no rust) The culprit was the very back port on the passenger side, gasket fail. However, it got new everything, studs, manifold, gaskets, etc....

Had the inner fender fender liner out and top 4 studs out within 45 minutes. Bottom studs were a different story, you couldnt even see the front bottom two for the most part. plus you had to work blind behind the strut tower. Top starter bolt was a pain as well! Also for anyone attempting this, you BETTER have access to a Fine Tooth Snap On Rachet that has moving head or you will be cussing the studs

Steps we took:

1) Jack truck up
2) remove tire and inner fender
3) Start removing studs. Back two can be removed with a ratchet, front tow, use a 13mm wrence (gear wrench would be great)
4) Once you remove top 4, time for the fun to begin.
5) unbolt flange from bottom of manifold
6) remover converters if possible (i had to cut the pipe right after last converter and slide the converter section down because the only path for the manifold to come out is the hole where flange is. Having it rewelded this morning.
7) Remove starter (top bolt sucks, having a second person viewing fron up top is a must so you can have them guide you where the darn bolt it
8) start loosining the bottom studs by whatever means possible and PRAY you dont break a bottom one, or you MAY BE pulling engine.
9) take the big engine mount nut off and jack engine up as far as it will let you
10) fish out manifold best you can

11) clean matin surface up good, and put all the studs in BUT the bottom front two or three (clearance issues)
12) once all studs are in, place new gaskets on the studs, the studs will hold them
13) fish in the new manifold and place on studs, then put a few nuts on a few of the studs to hold in place
14) place remaining two or three studs in remaining holes
15) once all studs are in, tighten nuts on studssnug, then starting from front to back tighten top and bottom at same time (one person up top and one underneath)
16) let engine down put engine mount nut back on
17) put starter back on
18) mount up converter section you moved and bolt up the flange
19) put inner fender liner in, bolt up wheel
20) Crank up and listen to a tick free exhaust!!

putting those bottom front two studs back in and tightening the nuts on them SUCKED

truck going under the knife



As you can see, I had a nice gasket failure. There were rust deposits on the mating surface of the exhaust manifold on the rear port. looks like they pushed up the gasket and allowed the gasket to bend under the extreme heat.



also, you see, the studs were in excellent condition, but we put new everything in. these were the top studs

 

New Meats!!



No rubbing AT ALL at full steering tilt. I am so happy with my purchase