Tabbysdaddy

What are you going to call it? I don't think "Thunderstorm" has been used.

Sorry I can't help, but you did bring up this old memory for me.

Keeping with the theme of doing everything twice on this Ranger, I'll be removing the new water pump tomorrow. It also partially holds the timing cover on, and replacing it disturbed the timing cover gasket so that is now leaking water. Pretty sure I'm going to have to drop the oil pan also to remove the cover.

Here's a side shot:

I wish it would have started leaking. Maybe I would have found it six hundred dollars ago.

It's actually common on some Fords. Brainstorming last night I remembered reading about it so I was hoping, expecting to find this. Or a clogged radiator.

This Ranger has been fighting me for a month. My daughter drives it and it overheated. Weekend #1- removed heads, found a cracked head. Weekend #2- found a used head, reassembled everything. Still not running right. Weekend #3- removed head I didn't change, crack I can't see or bent valve. Weekend #4, this weekend- installed another used head, still not running right. So, remove radiator and water pump to inspect. Radiator fine, water pump pictured below.

The brown one in my other picture is wrecked in the front and the engine and transmission have been removed. I tried to get decent pictures of the sheet metal unibody frame. You can see it separating from the accident just above the crossmember in the first pic.

The only differences through the years other than a minor body character line are the grill, bumpers and taillights. I would think someone might 3D print some different year stuff.

There is no separate frame on the 1:1. The underside of the kit looks very much like the real thing. The front crossmember bolts to the unibody rails.

Yes it's unibody, and yes the engine is offset, but no, the control arms are not unequal lengths. That would make it handle weird. I just measured to make sure.

The A-Team van has the roof ribs, although that hasn't been reissued in a long time.

Planes? Trains? No thanks. I live near a drag strip/circle track like a normal person.

Yes, that's the one I was talking about. That's where my hood came from.

Well, he also said cowl induction hood which that kit doesn't have. Wouldn't be the first time someone got the kit manufacturer wrong. But I guess we'll see when he replies.