FULL width WHITE RHINO

[WHITE RHINO]

Well i ve been getting alot of Pm's with questions about my ranger so i decided to finally post up my build up. It all started off with a $400 88 ranger STX regular cab long bed. I lifted it 6"s upgraded the axles a little then i met some new buddys that all have crawlers. So i decided to ditch the TTB front for a HP fullwidth Dana 44. I bought a 44 off of craigslist for $200 with all the cast wedges on it. I was going to run them with stock radius arms, bushings, and coils but i decided i wanted to flex alot more than that. I Plated the stock arms grinded them down so i could sleave them with 2" 1/4 wall DOM extended them around a foot and got currie HD johnny joints. made the cross member/t-case skid in a few hours got pre-bent Blue torch 1 3/4 DOM shock hoops welded all that crap on. I got a great deal on 14" 2.0 fox air shocks so i was pretty much ready to flex. I scored a massive deal on 8 lug outers/ 5.13's/detroit/ recentered H1 double beadlocks/6 38" TSL radials half tread/high steer/ heimed dom tierod/ Eaton 14 bolt rear end with disk brake conversion with 5.13s and lincoln locked all for around $1200 I decided to stick with leafs in the rear and picked up some 63" chevys
for $50 and inboarded them and made some shackles. Got the drivelines made ( Steve at South Bay Driveline in San Jose).

All in all it turned out great i have run the con/frank reines/ and hollister a few times with nothing broken. To bad i finished it right before "season ended" so i havent been able to run Four dyce like i wanted too. hope you guys like it heres all the pics i know theres a ton just thought i'd be thorough

Update As of 12/6/2011:

Current Specs

88 Reg Cab Ranger Frame
90 Extendo Cab
2.9 Liter V-6 (fancy)
Mitu Trans 5-speed
Stubler Doubler BW1350-1354

Front End:
88 High Pinion King Pin 60, 5.13's, Welded, Plated Knuckles, HighSteer, PSC DE Ram, 35 Spline Yukons with Warn Hubs
2/3 Link with Pan Hard (2" .25wall DOM with 1.25" Heims for links) (1.5" .25" wall DOM with Ruffstuff 7/8s Heims for PanHard)
2.5" SAW Airshocks with Tri-Nitrate Coated Shafts, Poly Performance Limit Straps

Rear End:
63" Chevy Springs, Redrilled
Plans to put 2" SAW Airshocks in back w/ leafs
Eaton H052/72 with Discs. Shaved housing, welded, 5.14s

Cage:
Full Exo around Cab, 1.75" .120wall DOM.

Wheels/Tires:

44" Pitbull Rockers
Performace Cryogenics Recentered H1 Wheels, Trailworthy Fab PVC Inserts



the begining:


the mud days:

went to the early 90's front clip:

[WHITE RHINO]

the start of the Krawler build:

[WHITE RHINO]

ITS done well sort of ( i know im gonna get shit for the redneck RTI)

[WHITE RHINO]

Decided to Bob the bed i might dove tail it later:





RUBICON:

[WHITE RHINO]

Frank Reines:

[gfbgreaser289]

that is sick. your truck is my trucks hero. check it out in the classieds its under 87 xcab v8 fs axles ranger. i want to trade mine for a 4wd v6 manual trans stock ranger if you find one im in bakersfield.

[pcampbell]

I've run across your buildup before. NICE! Appreciate the good pics too. I've been researching this and plan to do a full width Bronco II soon.

It looks like the extended arms hit just perfect under the frame on the crossmember you built. Or did you have to push them in any? I have a welded C-mount D44 instead of the cast so I can cut them off and move them in if I had to. I'll have to see when I mock it up if I will have the room on the BII for extended or if I will just go wristed.

[03f350]

that is one kick ass ranger

[WHITE RHINO]

thanks guys, i notched into the crossmember so i could get the johnny joints as high up as possible and the top of the crossmember is opened up to allow the t-case to sit in it its all plated to the max and pretty solid. The c-mounts on the tube are in the stock location i extended the arms so that they were long enough to sit right inside the frame i did however push the front axle forward about 4 inches which puts my wheel base at about 117"s ill post some pics of the crossmember build when i get on my other computer

heres a better shot of the crossmember and arms in action and some random flex shots on the old dodge

[Loki89t]

I think that is the nicest Ranger I've ever seen.

[FbOmRxD]

Nice build man, once mine gets off DD duties it'll be headding a little more towards yours...

[WHITE RHINO]

once again thanks i was tired all the jeeps and yotas out there, they are all cool and all, but i wanted something different and make people think, what the hell is that?? its still confusing because the emblems on the front clip say bronco II. it took me about 3 months total with a month of actual working on it. the only thing i need is more crawl ratio...... ive built this on a super budget and spent around $3000

[FoxFan]

hey! is that hi-lo spotter in the shop Chuck Liddell?

[WHITE RHINO]

hahaha yeah thats me

[Ralphenstein]

That is Gawjus. Nice job!

[WHITE RHINO]

re-tried the fork lift today

[SJscouter]

Those pics actually do it justice. it was hard to tell how high it was from the forklift. lookes good mike

[WHITE RHINO]

yeah the 2nd pic with mario in it shows the height considering he's 6'1

[WHITE RHINO]

This week Truss the front axle went to a buddies shop to bent up a DOM truss which the hydro assist ram will be mounted on eventually


FUTURE PLANS:
Dual Cases
EXO
Link the rear
Chromoly shafts
hydro assist
attach front/rear winchs
39.5 TSLs

[Nor Cal Wheelin]

That thing looks alot closer to being done then it did when My brother in law bought the blue and white blazer from ya a while back..... Glad to see ya finished it.. Looks good... We are waiting on a few parts before we start building that thing up...... Wont be as nice as your rig though...We're broke.... Your rig looks sick though.... ..

[WHITE RHINO]

thats hilarious what you guys doin with it? im broke too dont worry i made 80% of the crap on my truck so that helped

[Nor Cal Wheelin]

The Basic build.. 203-205 doubler, rear springs up front, dana 60 4:88's welded, and some nice shafts once he gets more money.. Pro-comp 63" rears with a shackle flip, dana 70 b with 4:88's welded... Hopefully h-1 8 bolts re-centered, and some cheap 39.5 tsl's off my dodge.... for now... Once he gets some more money saved up, we will cage it and narrow the front 14 inches... maybe link it etc... He is a broke fawker though so its slow going.......

[WHITE RHINO]

sounds like a plan good luck im glad to see it going to good use i have another blazer on 40's for $1200 pm me if interested

[Colorado Ron]

Nice setup. Always been a Ranger fan. Im on my 6th one, of course they dont look like that!

[WHITE RHINO]

yeah i hated mine when i first got it but now i love it it runs like a champ im on the 4th tranny 3rd t-case 3rd axle set up but good ol' 2.9 liter hasnt let me down yet even with 240,000 miles on it HAHA!