Ford Ranger Prerunner

[lincpimp]

I like the tiny jack stand... What is it rated for?

[NickRummy]

Little more progress. Brazed the front and rear of the frame rails together.



I think this is about where the front of the body would rest on the frame. Some is showing but there is normally a bumper there.







Set the interior back in to see how that is going to work out. It's surprisingly close actually. I'm going to have to cheat the floor boards a little and make room for the frame rails.





I was going to have the transmission mocked up in place with the motor mounted but found out that the 1717 uses 4mm hardware and not the normal 3mm. So it won't mount on the RCM motor mount without modification

Radius arms are ready

[NickRummy]

First up was getting the Hyper 7 center diff locked. I only need one output so obviously if I left it the way it was all the power would be transferred to the output with the least load. Here's what I came up with. Tore it all apart and happened to have the output shaft from an E-maxx trans and the spool that's used for shifting.



Then I just trimmed away at that spool with the dremel until it fit snuggly into the carrier.



Assembled it back together and now it's completed locked and I have 6mm outputs ready for drive shafts.



Had to trim more out of the interior than I thought but still not too bad. Won't be able to tell when it's all together. Bumper is a bit higher than previously mocked up but not still reasonable.



Used the dremel to open up the bolt hole slots in the motor mount to 4mm and also trimmed off the side so that it would fit flush on the cross member. Got the cross member together and made some mounts for the motor plate. They're still rough and will get cleaned up and braced.



Here's the transmission in place. Just need to make another cross member for the other trans mount.



Interior in place