Wasted $1800 having a remanufactured engine installed in an ‘85 Ranger that was 12 years old at that point. The original engine had an oil pump failure that required a rebuild at 45K by a previous owner. Then at exactly 100K, the head gasket went and the mechanic told me the bottom end of the engine was toast. Since…

Is it weird that the voice in my head when I read this was Alec Baldwin’s Trump impersonation from SNL? That’s weird right?

^ THIS is how Ford competes with the Wrangler: BOF, diesel, MT, SFA, 2 doors

This will likely end up in the engineering ethics classes. Right alongside Morton Thiokol rockets on the Challenger and the walkway collapse at a hotel in Kansas City.

You don’t even have to be working on a car. I rented a 3 jaw puller from Autozone last year to remove a part from the drive shaft of a washing machine. Worked great.

The truth ... it hurts so very much.

Anything with a manual. My wife can’t drive one (and refuses to learn) and insists we have two cars that she can drive. And also insists we have exactly two cars.

Pretty sure that’s a doggo, dude.

Small suv + two solid axles + manual transmission = we americans ain’t getting it unless it’s a wrangler

Kia Sorento company rental car. Had it for about 4 days for a training class. Handling and ride not much to speak of but it was surprisingly fast.

Beelzeboot made him do it. Or maybe it was just Scott, that guy’s a dick.

This brings back the memories. I did almost the exact same service on a ‘94 Toyota pickup (it was even black). Rear brake rebuild, machined the drums, new e-brake bellcranks because they were frozen (not a new problem I guess). Also put on OME lift springs. Lots of work and Ohio rust to fight but turned out pretty…

I’m guessing it came out like a knuckleball. That and a little wind would cause that wild curve.

Weird grafting of a CJ/Wrangler body onto a diesel chassis trifecta now in play.

Don’t be ashamed, David, embrace the meh of this car. I still miss a white 2002 Corolla. Put wheels on a refrigerator and you couldn’t tell the difference it and the Corolla.

I was thinking the Blue Ridge Parkway would be really out of the way if you are going from Plano to Chattanooga. Maybe they were actually on the Natchez Trace?

My mom let me drive a mid-80s Dodge Caravan on a narrow country road when I was 14. Not much of an event but when a car was approaching in the opposite direction, I kept slowing down and just stopped completely before the other car passed.

This happened to my friends wife. TJ, snowy highway, not in 4wd. Two+ full flat spins and ended up on the shoulder facing the wrong way. And she was 8 months pregnant.

A 1985 Ford Ranger tried to get me twice. 1) transmission imploded violently on a desolate stretch of I75 in northern Ohio. At 5AM in early January. 2) gas pedal stuck down at 65 mph (pretty much top speed). I was about to take it out of gear, turn off the ignition and pull over when one last stomp on the pedal popped…

I learned to drive in something underpowered as well (not really a shitbox though). ‘85 Ranger, 4 cyl, manual, 4x4. Pretty much foot on the floor all the time.