u/300056681
▲ 5 r/fordranger
Drum breaks and wheel cylinders. Does this look right?
I have two main questions. 1999 Ford Ranger 4x4 10in drum brakes.
Are these wheel cylinders the right ones? I got what they had from AutoZone for my make and model. I noticed that corner of that bracket is pressing into the boot of the new wheel cylinder. Is that going to cause it to fail or rip? These are a little wider than what was in there before.
I got the shoes and hardware put together but when I put the drum on and turn it there is a lot of resistance. I've taken this apart three times now. The star adjuster is in as much as possible. I've tried shifting everything around and getting it to close up, not sure if something is in there wrong.
Please let me know if I'm missing something obvious and if it should change these wheel cylinders to something else.
Thanks!
u/300056681 — 2 months ago
▲ 33 r/AskMechanics
Replacing wheel cylinder but brake line flare nut is starting to round. 1999 Ford Ranger.
I'm replacing the rear wheel cylinder and drum brakes on a 1999 Ford Ranger. I got the driver side done without a problem. I'm on the passenger side now and the flare nut into the wheel cylinder is starting to round. I've tried a line wrench in both 11mm and 7/16. I've been spraying these parts with PB Blaster daily for the past week in anticipation of doing this job. I've been heavily spraying this for the past couple hours and still no luck. I'm able to remove the mounting bolts for the wheel cylinder itself.
Is it okay to use heat? Is it too far gone and should I plan to replace the brake line?
Any tips?
Thanks!
u/300056681 — 2 months ago
▲ 30 r/RegularCabClub
'99 Ford Ranger
4x4, 5-speed, Long bed. I'd like to get some new wheels and tires after I get it caught up on maintenance.
u/300056681 — 3 months ago
▲ 6 r/fordranger
Front suspension, what else needs to be replaced?
Obviously the shocks and upper control arms need to be replaced, and the lower ball joint and bushings are bad so I was just going to replace the entire lower control arms.
I have noticed some clunking coming from the front end when hitting some bumps.
When I had a wheel off the ground I wasn't getting much movement when I tried rocking the wheel, so I'm not sure if the tie rods need to be replaced. The boots look pretty good I think?
I was going to do the sway bar links since they are right there and cheap, and will eventually do the front brakes.
I do have a 2 piece upper control arm on the passenger side, any issues with replacing it with a 1 piece upper control arm?
Thanks for your help!
u/300056681 — 3 months ago
▲ 2 r/Subaru_Outback
Can my fully stock 2022 Outback with Wildpeak ATs do a road like this?
I've been wanting to check out some forest roads in the mountains but I have zero experience doing anything like this. My Outback is stock except for a new set of Falken Wildpeak AT that I got last fall. This one seems fairly easy but I want to get some feedback first. Thanks!
u/300056681 — 4 months ago
▲ 12 r/dogs
My dog won't let me take her on walks after my wife and I switched schedules.
I have a 4 year old German shepherd/lab that my wife and I have had since she was 4 months old. She has always been a bit anxious, loud noises easily spook her. We hired a private trainer after we first got her to help us go over the basics of training her and for the most part she is pretty good but she does sometimes have some reactivity towards other dogs and resource guarding. We just hired another private trainer to help with these issues, we just had our second session with them and we've gone over clicker training and identify and deal with her targeting things.
We've always taken her on 2 walks a day, once in the morning and then again in the evening. For the past few years my wife and I have both worked from home, my wife would take her out in the morning, and I would take her out in the evening. On weekends I would take her out in the morning on my own or we both would together.
But in January I started a new job and now work in office. We continued with the same schedule of me walking her when I got home from work and all was well.
Then about a month ago my wife got a new job where she has to start work at 8am, she is still at home mostly (she might go into the office once or twice a month), so we switched it up so that I take the dog out in the morning and my wife takes her out in the evening since I can show up at work whenever I want.
The problem is that my dog won't leave the yard when I try to take her out, including in the evenings now. When I take her out and only goes as far as smelling across the street, otherwise we just walk around the house several times and we end up in the backyard where she plays a bit. During this time I do some training with her but she ends up easily distracted and looks inside the house for my wife.
The other day I drove up the road to the park just to get her away from the house and it worked out fine. But today when I tried, as soon as we got out of the car we heard a loud noise like a car backfiring and she was done and beelined for the car. I drove up the road to another park but she wasn't having it there either. I barely got her out of the car and when I did she didn't want to go anywhere and wanted back inside the car. When we got back home and went under the bed, which is where she usually spends her time during the day, we have a crate for her but she prefers under the bed.
She definitely has some kind of separation issues with my wife. She will happily go on walks if my wife is with her. I feel bad because this puts a lot of pressure on my wife and I feel bad for my dog because if she's not out with my wife she's usually under the bed. Although she will go outside in the yard a couple times throughout the day
I'm assuming the issue is deeper than her just not wanting to go on walks with me but we aren't sure what to do about it and what the underlying cause is.
Anything we should address with our trainer or that we can try on our own?
Thanks for your help!
u/300056681 — 5 months ago
▲ 10 r/GoogleFi
Visited Canada this weekend, App said I was covered but I never had any service.
I live in Washington and visited Vancouver Canada over the weekend. The Google Fi app said I was covered in Canada but I never had any service, only when I connected to wifi. I restarted my phone and turned on and off airplane mode but I never seemed to connect to any kind of network. I wasn't in a remote area and the phone seemed to know I was in Canada. Is there something I missed? Phone is a Pixel 10. Thanks!
u/300056681 — 5 months ago
▲ 6 r/AskMechanics
I just got this 1999 Ford Ranger, manual, 4x4, 3.0L, 144k miles on the dash. I'm not sure of the truck's previous maintenance and just took a look at the brakes. The truck brakes fine and quiet.
One concern is that I have to push the parking brake pedal all the way to the floor for it to fully hold the truck when parked. Not sure if the drum brakes need adjusting or they need to be replaced.
The inside surface of the drum was fairly smooth. I did feel some tiny grooves on the front rotor, I'm not sure how much is normal though.
I can already see that the front suspension needs some work and that the axle seals in the rear need to be replaced.
Thanks for your input!
u/300056681 — 6 months ago
▲ 8 r/fordranger
New Ranger owner wanting to learn to work on my truck. I wanted to jack up the front end to take the front tires off. Watched a video on YouTube on where to use the jack and jack stands. It feels like I need to jack up the front end quite a bit to be able to put my jack stands under the torsion bar brackets though. Even with the stands at their lowest level.
There was a slight shift before I took these pictures and decided to put it back down. My driveway is a bit sloped but I had both back tires choked. Was that just the jack shifting over my bumpy driveway? Is there a better place to put my jack stands so I don't have to raise it as much?
Thanks for your help.
u/300056681 — 6 months ago