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Newbie Here - 10/11/2005 1:53:07 PM
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Woodrow
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Hello all.....my name is Michael and I live in Chattanooga, TN. I drive a '93 F-250 with 1 ton running gear. It has 230,XXX on the original drivetrain and still going strong. Still can't convice my Chevy-loving buddies that their stuff can't hang. But anyways, I'm glad to be here and can't wait to trade stories and advice with everyone.
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'93 F-250 4x4 - 351ci, AOD, D60s w/posi front and rear, 4.11 gears, 33" BFG All-Terrains mounted on 16.5" Chrome Pacers.
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RE: Newbie Here - 10/11/2005 2:42:51 PM
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techmanbd
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Welcome to the site Woodrow.
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1990 Ranger 4.0
2004 Triumph Daytona 955i - Yellow
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RE: Newbie Here - 10/11/2005 3:32:58 PM
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Woodrow
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quote:
ORIGINAL: techmanbd
Welcome to the site Woodrow.
Thank you much.
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If you die trying.....what good does it do you?
'93 F-250 4x4 - 351ci, AOD, D60s w/posi front and rear, 4.11 gears, 33" BFG All-Terrains mounted on 16.5" Chrome Pacers.
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RE: Newbie Here - 10/11/2005 10:04:51 PM
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Babys_Mom
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Oh wow, and I joined tonight to post that Baby, my 93 Ranger, turned over 200,000 as I pulled into my drive tonight!
Think I can get another 30,000 outta her?
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RE: Newbie Here - 10/12/2005 10:46:14 AM
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techmanbd
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I use to have a 93 ranger, had it for 3 years and had about 150,000 when I got rid of it. The only problem it had when I traded it in was that the clutch was going out. Welcome to the site babys_mom
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1990 Ranger 4.0
2004 Triumph Daytona 955i - Yellow
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RE: Newbie Here - 10/12/2005 10:00:35 PM
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Babys_Mom
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Thanks Woodrow and Techmanbd!
I will learn where to post correctly later...as a newbie I will reply here for now.. K?...I am gonna be long and Southern gal windy...forgive me...(Woodrow...I am in Oakland, TN now...just outside Memphis. Howdy!)
My first ever car was a 1965 Ford Fairlane Futura, I bought for $800 with three months checks from the USAF in, uh, some year.
OK I ain't a sweet young thang and all I know about engines is from what has broken on what I am driving at the time.
After my divorce some centuries ago, I bought a new '92 Ranger on an ad deal and got a LEMON. My first new vehicle. 18 months later with the fifth time in for a rear main seal leak, having been patted on my 5'2" frame too many times, I had to go ...uh...I don't wanna go against forum rules but I can't think of a nice way to say Postal Bitch Crazy....in the showroom of the dealership where I had purchased the Tan Lemon. They were gonna change the oil pan that time....
Well, they sent Super Salesman out to deal with me and it being end of year with the '94s being new (about Thanksgiving ...Baby and I will have 12 years together) he steered me to the four '93s on the lot. (I get girly here.) One was black, one white, and two kinda gold like...
I say: "Isn't that blue over silver one in the showroom a '93?"
Long story, lots of foot stomping (me) and eye rolling (sales guy) and I drive away with Baby.
Techman/ The one of two (maybe / see brake lights below) major repairs has been when the clutch went out two years ago and they redid the plate...??? I lost my records in a plumbling disaster. Yeah I had records of every oil change (done by me..go girl), tune up, lightbulb change, paint scratch, ding (there's a recall here) blah blah.
Baby is on her third set of tires, second battery, third brake job, one tranny seal replaced, one thermostat replaced (wooda done that myself but it is on bottom of engine..yikes!.. took three cussing men at Firestone to get that done..haha, oh wait maybe they were cussing cause I was laughing at them), the usual belts (one uni, one timing), one something expensive when all the brake idiot lights came on but the brakes were still working..(my Uncle Floyd who took a Model T apart to the screw and put it back together in his youth called it a money maker light and said I probably just needed fluid), and here we are as best I remember.
Baby looks good in the photo but she has some windshield dings that are now spidering across, a little rear main leak that has me adding oil once between changes, some strange things that worry me but she still runs good and gets good mileage...
I can't imagine life w/o her!
I don't wanna a new vehicle...I want Baby forever!
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