Van/truck update

Gunner Asch · 2007-11-04T06:03:12+00:00

Ive now put nearly 10,000 miles on the 2001 Ranger I bought somemonths ago.After putting the Lifetime aluminum work shell on it..ladder on topand about 400 lbs of tools and Stuff....Im averaging 19mpg.A guy gave me a set of coil spring helpers, go between the frame andthe axel, which brought the body back up to where its supposed to be.Still cant figure out why the factory leafs went flat. With aslight..slight tendency to bounce over speed bumps..runs and travelswell.110,000 miles.89 Ford 1ton extended service van .....Found a full set of Adrian Steel shelving units...4 units...from acompany that bought brand new E250 vans and use their own customshelving units. Got all 4 for $200, installed ok. Am in the process ofstocking them this weekend.Interesting thing....the odometer read 09979 when I got it. It wasassumed that it was 109979 miles......Had a bad...bad wander to the steering...so took it to a front endshop, found the bolts holding the steering box were less than handtight..steering box was floating, and there was significant toe out.They corrected it, alighned and its fine. The shop mentioned thateverything was very tight and there was no play..less than a truckwith 100k on it.Which caused me to ask the ex owner how many miles did he think it hadon it....he scratched his head...pondered....said that it only gotused a couple times..probably not many miles....When I took it to be smogged..the smog shop looked at thenumbers...looked at the year....then back at the odo...and asked me ifId stuck a new engine in it? When I aske why..he said there was noway that a 351 Windsor with 109k miles on it would be so far below allthe Minimum numbers for smog....it had to be a new engine/cat.With no wear on the pedals..low low smog numbers and no wear on thefront end....Im (and everyone who has worked on it) starting to thinkthat its got less then 10,000 miles on the vehicle.Even after replacing the radiator, hoses, 2 (dual ) batteries, analternator ( a result of bad...

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Gunner Asch 18 years ago

The guy is in Ontario.

Ill settle for Commodore...hummm or is that Comode?

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Larry Jaques 18 years ago

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:01:07 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner Asch quickly quoth:

Yes, Commodore of your big Ford boat of a van. Build and install a steam/river-boat whistle for it, Gunner. Here are graphics for the sides:

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Or if you'll be pulling the trailer along with it most of the time, this graphic would work better:

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Gunner Asch 18 years ago

Gunner

Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

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