94 Overhaul

[D94R]

Seats, Carpet and some interior panels are out. Carpet is in the trash! Seats will be ditched, but I'm saving them for now incase I need the tracks for the buckets I'll eventually install.

Dash still has to come out.

I'm pretty sure my plan is to upgrade the interior to a 95+ setup. For looks and ease of finding the peices more than anything. It's easier to find the door panels and dash for 95+ than it is for a 93/94 around here.

One thing I'm not sure of is the speedo. Don't know if its cable controlled in 95+ like my 94. If it is, great, but if it takes it from the VSS since it would be OBD-II/EEC-V that may be a problem since I won't have the stock computer (95+ computer) to control it. If that be the case, I'll probably go all after market gauges in a custom setup in the dash.


It also appears that "cutting the floor" for the T5 will be a snap. My truck has a panel that looks like it extends far enough back that has the hole for the stock tranny it it. I maybe able to get away with fabbing a new panel to fit there, and just put the hole for the T5 in the correct spot. Not sure if this is the case for some of the other Rangers who've done the T5 swap or not.

Pics will come shortly.


OH!!! And I scored a free electric fan from my neighbor. I gave him a little 2 gallon air compressor about a year ago, so he gave me the fan in return. It's never been used, and is a 16" I think. It moves 1390 ft^3/min, so it should work out perfect for me

[nagelandy55]

Speedo is VSS controlled, but the VSS on the 95-97 rangers is in the tranny as opposed to the 98-01 which are in the rear axle.

I think my truck has that same planel for the tranny, i hope it works out for ya.

[D94R]

Originally Posted by nagelandy55

Speedo is VSS controlled, but the VSS on the 95-97 rangers is in the tranny as opposed to the 98-01 which are in the rear axle.

Bummer. Either way though, I'd still need the computer to interpolate the data before sending it to the speedo right? I haven't looked at a wiring diagram to see if there is a VSSin and VSSout, or something like that.





Here's the pics.

No carpet or seats.


The rust around the holes for the screws of the carpet hold down trim.
Driver side.

Passenger side.

One of them ground down. Theres enough metal under the rust to not worry about patching, I think.




The panel for the gear shift.

[D94R]

Small Update!!!

Just purchased the major body parts to get the body of the truck back together finally.

Bought the following from an Ebay Store supplier. ( qualitydiscountcarparts( 28567Feedback score) 99.2% score)

Good prices, though it looks like they play the shipping game a little bit to keep fees on their side down. However, since I bought all the parts at once, and over the phone, I did receive a hefty shipping discount with them


Tail Gate


Header Panel


Radiator Support
No pic for this though

Smooth Chrome front Bumper


Fog light valance

[nagelandy55]

That'll look good when its all in ...... why did you need a new header panel? Aren't they plastic?

[D94R]

Fiberglass from what I can tell. I need a new one because I hit a deer in High School. It took out the passenger headlight area. Come to find out, when they replaced the head light, grill, and fender, the header panel was cracked, but they didn't replace it. So I am now.


Parts get shipped out Thursday the 12th. He said they should arrive sometime next week. It's going to pain me though to look at the parts without doing anything with them for months on end. No point in installing them, especially the radiator support, until I've pulled the cab/bed and painted the frame.

[Riddle_Rob]

Header panels are fibreglass :|

[D94R]

Yah, I could have opted to have the parts painted for an additional $150/part. But, the rest of the truck needs resprayed too so there was no point. I'll just do it all at once instead of patchwork painting. Guarantees consistent matching color that way.

[D94R]

A couple parts arrived today.





Still waiting on: Bumper, 4x4 Valence, Header panel.

Quality looks to be expected with repops. I can already tell I'll need to do a little tweaking on the core support. And on the very right side of the tail gate in the picture, just below the upper body line, the inner frame has slightly creased the skin. Should be easy enough to fix though I thing with a little hammer work and filler to level it all out. I'm not going for a show room fresh, looks like a million dollars, resto here. Just getting "new" parts on the truck so it can live another 15 years or more.

[D94R]

Originally Posted by Nagelandy55

Hows the quality of the tail gate? My brother has an aftermarket tail gate on his truck and the sheet metal they use is a little thin.

Seems good. It's as heavy as the stock one. The crease on the right side near the upper body line is the only blemish I can see. The rest of the metal is smooth, no dents, dings, or waves.