Will my CHILDHOOD Truck RUN & DRIVE After sitting Abandoned for YEARS?

huh all right ladies and gentlemen

welcome to another episode of junkyard

digs on today's episode we're Reviving a

94 Ford Ranger now I know that might

seem like completely normal traffic and

not something that fits our Channel at

all but not only was this the truck I

grew up in but this is the one I later

drove to high school it blew a

transmission sometime in college and

it's been sitting waiting for me to find

a very specific transmission ever since

then and we have one and it's time to

bring this out of the weeds and put it

back on the road let's see what it takes

to do a '90s EFI Revival this is the

future happening

now before we get started here let's

pump the brakes a little bit and talk

about this 94 STX and the history it has

in my family in the fall of 2002 my dad

picked up this cheap Ford Ranger that

had been crushed by a tree and was in

need of some Bodywork having done that

his whole life this was no problem dad

stripped the truck apart I of course

helped and soon enough the truck was

back together and on the road once again

for years dad drove this thing back and

forth every day to work and I remember

it driving around for the majority of my

childhood however after years of service

the ranger got parked due to some issues

and forgotten about in the front yard

for about 6 years until one day I needed

a truck to make it to school and work so

I did my first Revival out of pure

necessity and put the ranger back on the

road for the next 3 years I drove the

out of this truck I put on easily

20 ,000 Mi hauling everything from

motorcycles to four-wheelers to whole

golf carts in the back of the truck if

it wasn't romping down the gravel or

sideways in the snow there was a good

chance it was a couple feet off the

ground okay we're going to jump the

ranger we're doing 45 here we go oh

oh that was a poor decision oh

my God in the winter of 2017 while on a

trip back from college in the ranger it

unfortunately ran out of transmission

fluid from a leak I had not detected and

inevitably burned up the front bearing

had the transmission out the year prior

for a slave cylinder so I didn't think

it'd be that big of a deal but as it

turns out I could not find a

transmission for this truck in fact it

took me 3 years to find one locally and

affordable during those 3 years of

course our YouTube stuff kicked off I

got bigger more dependable trucks to

haul trailers and the ranger sat

forgotten once again in the backyard

it's been 10 years since I did the first

Survival on this truck and after sitting

for another s it's time for the second

let's get this sucker to the shop and

put the ranger back on the road

okay there we go uglier than I remember

it the paint has not held up well to

sitting outside since 2017 I looked it

up so it's been ooh it's been 7 years

since

2017 that don't sound right ooh I

wondered bastard's got my

registration doing a Revival on my own

own car I got old like this looks like

we pull out of a barn they ate my

1994 Ranger manual this is weird like

usually we pull this stuff out and they

like oh when was it last registered uh

to me in

2017 I'm old enough to have my own Barn

fine level Vehicles ow look at this look

at this old

receipts with my own signature on them

they're all crinkled up and look like

they've been in a barn for 30 years

oh that's from the time I got to go

up with the golden knights at drill one

time in Davenport when they came to the

air show and they stole my patch when

they jumped out the window or the door

in the back of the plane it was really

cold plus thr some power out this to

make sure everything or anything still

works oh we got some

sparkies let's see if anything comes to

life inside it's got fuel well okay the

clock is on the clock is on let's find a

good flavor of copyright music please

thank

you

rebird oh yeah oh this is

happening the Rangers coming back baby

is poetic for the last 7 years this

truck has essentially been listening to

just the beginning of the song of

Freebird and now that it's ready to get

back on the road the fun part starts all

right let's get this some in the

air and get a transmission in it oh I'm

so excited all right here's all our

Hardware sorted out as you can see it's

been in in better shape before so we're

going to have to do a little clean up

guessing those are bell housing uh I

don't know what these are sure we'll

figure that out no idea what the eight

of these are we got big nuts small nuts

and then I'm assuming that's crossmember

before we put the new transmission in we

wanted to take the time to take the old

clutch out and put a new one in its

place on a freshly turned flywheel Angus

popped our clutch off I removed the

flywheel and threw it on the bpack

combination brake LA and got to work at

turning the surface all right so we've

been saying it for years you finally get

to see it yes the ranger B combination

brake lth that does flywheels as well as

drums and

discs oh

yeah making a big difference already

sure those spots is hitting they hot

spots that the flut is like Harden the

metalon you'll see them after this pass

it's pretty crazy all right there's our

first pass done see all these right here

these shiny spots that's where the

clutch has gotten hot and Harden the

metal and you can hear it when you're

cutting it it cuts way slower right here

and you can feel it it's way higher so

we got to do a few more passes until all

those hot spots are gone then we'll have

a properly resurfaced flywheel let's run

her

again hey hey hey there we go that looks

fantastic you love to see it getting

some more life out of old Parts no

reason to replace that at all but it

definitely did need resurfaced that way

when we get a new one of these it can

sit on there and mate properly and get

the most performance out of it with our

flywheel done we reinstalled it po the

old pilot bearing out and put a new one

in its place once that was out of the

way we were ready to hang the new clutch

and get ready for the trans install this

has a concentric slave which is around

the input shaft which means if your

slave cylinder goes out you get to pull

the whole transmission out of the truck

we replaced the clutch so that we never

have to take this off and do this again

we're going to do the same thing with

the slave cylinder this one might be

just fine but a new one 60 bucks to

confirm that I hopefully never have to

take this off and do this again so let's

go ahead pop this guy off and boltt a

new one in place all right two 10 mm

head bolts this should slide straight

out now it's time to install the new one

this is a very difficult task take

notes installed good job this why I pay

you the big bucks oh yeah oh good news

Angus it's already done so these plugs

right here which are supposed to look

like this three rubber plugs on these

m5s they shrink from the transmission

fluid and they start to leak eventually

you'll get low on fluid in this case

someone's been in here I mean we got r2v

all over this output chunk here and

someone's already done the mod and

hammered in some Welsh plugs Little

Frost plug looking deals you can get

them on eBay but that's already been

done so thankfully this sucker is ready

to go in Sweet let's hang it I'm so

ready for this this I've never been more

ready for anything in my life all right

let's hang a transmission usually I

would do this rolling around on the

ground bleeding and cussing in a garage

that was about 2T wider than the whole

truck so for the first time ever this

might go pretty okay good good just a

bit down a little bit there clear okay

straighten

up oh

yeah how would you ever turn this on the

ground I don't know dude awful okay

we're

there all right go for it oh did it what

what did we do oh we pushed on

it well I'm not going to lie that sucked

but that was by far the easiest and

fastest this transmission's ever gone in

this truck when and doubt have a friend

if you don't have friends buy one so to

get these top bastards on these Rangers

though it's best to just let the whole

trans and everything sag don't try to

support it or else it'll be impossible

to get those top bolts but these are the

exact tools I mentioned this in the last

video but I bought these long extensions

to do the transmission my Ranger in high

school what you want to do is you want

to go over the top of the transmission

and reach way up front and grab the bell

housing that's the best way to uh

tighten these guys and loosen them now

you're older and uglier and

start okay two more from the front we're

ready to move on to the next component

which is probably starter and and all

the wiring all right got a brand new

starter to go on mostly because we can't

find the old one that is the one thing

we lost the starter and one of these

bolts on these replacement starters you

have to cut the Old Wire and crimp and

heat shrink the new connector on because

apparently the old wires were known for

causing some issues and issues being

fires so while I continued assembling

things underneath the truck and get

started working on our brakes those look

fun they are not super fun for some Reas

reason this driver side front brake line

going to the caliper shares a t block

with the other front brake line so

that's it is the union between the two

it is the union the hose is the union

it's big silly on the right side you've

had a pretty substantial leak of

something over the years and it's kept

these nice and free I didn't even

struggle you got to love a good I'm

assuming power steering leak eventually

we were able to hang the transfer case

and install the front and rear drive

shaft this is one of the few projects

I've ever done with I can compare doing

this with a lift and on the floor and

our B pack two poost lift was making

this inconceivably easier uh dad cut the

cat off don't worry I went through with

the die grinder and put in two plates so

that it's all powered oriented shaped

it's ConEd I I can see the weld marks on

the inside so what we got she's only got

a buck 45 so I got to got to get what I

can out of it I didn't come to work

ready to deal with this today but this

is threaded pipe again wasn't me that

was Dad di through the scrap pile cuz

the cat fell off all right the exhaust

is on a little bit of a fight and to

clean up some threads but we got her

done Angus has a new line on this side

he's tightening her down good luck to

you sir thanks I have attacked this

rotor with the wire wheel clean up the

surfaces a little bit these should Del

glaze and start working just fine I am

going to knock these slide pins out and

uh clean up and regrease the caliper

slide cuz I me they probably move but

they probably won't love it so get these

off all you got to do is get a

punch and punch these guys

out again since these are basically

brand new they came out really easy you

know what's funny back in the day on

study hall in high school I would go sit

in a computer lab and look at videos of

how to fix stuff on this truck and learn

stuff about how to repair things on cars

and stuff now here I am years later

making those videos who to

thk what a wild world that's why I try

to do the best I can to teach you guys

the stuff I wish I knew when I was your

age that I could easily find in a video

the things that took me years to learn

that lesson I'd like to come out with

right away and save someone to trouble

somewhere else with that being said

let's get this sucker cleaned

up want to clean

there

on

top on top back

here same with

this and same on the

caliper also take some brake clean and

clean these guys off this is just old

anti that's not actually rust either way

once that's all done I can go ahead and

re antise these put it all back together

and that'll work

perfect not a much better way to do this

don't go straight on or else it'll just

drive it Go a bit of an angle so it's

always

scrubbing let the whole drum

roll beautiful how goes it sir well

going okay I'm trying to replace the uh

front shocks now I managed to break the

stud off that mounts it to the lower

trailing arm so that'll be a fun fix for

us later

well I'd say that's good enough give the

old weld give the old weld yeah that'll

do it yeah we'll grind that down thr a

ton of washers on that side and yeah

surely that'll hold all the weights on

the part that we didn't well so maybe

but don't call me surely hey that's

looking good hey it's better now yeah

weld some threads on there she actually

worked it's magic not that I doubted you

at any point doing that I did don't you

worry I did it enough for both of

us well for personal motivation St Let's

uh let see if the pump runs I'm going to

guess no way in

hell huh why no

spin that's our brand new

starter yeah solenoids all

corroded try

now okay my

turn there we go I saw something in a

zip tie and bias ply video Once where

they had a truck with a fuel pump that

was stuck and they did this they took

compressed air to the shraer valve and

knocked the pump

loose oh

what still pump

now still nothing give her a crank maybe

she's got some oh you can't do that

that's

right

our fuel pump is determined to be dead

so let's uh feed her

manually come on the old turd I don't

think you have to press the clutch to

get

spark there we

go

small backfire well there it is the old

3 l still runs I think we're going to

stop here for today let's come by in the

morning and pop the bed off and do a

fuel pump see you then today's video is

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life all right let's get back to the

video we're about to initiate a day

filled with pure

violence starting right now I have a

gun step one for today let's get this

bed off and get a fuel pump in this

thing give her

hell with the bolts out of the way we

disconnected the wiring harness and

remove the tailgate after that we were

able to lift the bed off and set it on

some tires so we could access the fuel

pump answer is completely Rusty and

screwed wow in just seven years this

thing is

junk just junk all right I'll get

something to suck all that out that

should be pretty easy

do you mean a GCO pneumatic air operated

transfer pump do you have a GCO

pneumatic air operated transfer pump for

legal reasons I have to say no what

about for helpful reasons no damn it

using some hose a coolant jug in the

shop back we rigged up a system to suck

all the fuel out it worked pretty good

right until the end where it clogged

with Tar this must be that tar that

forms in the bottom of fuel tanks and

glues up the whole system dad's holds

mobile when we brought it back from

Kansas went 200 miles and it just

stopped working stopped moving Fuel and

this was in the whole bottom of the tank

and it took 200 Mi for this to

eventually get sucked up and gum up the

entire fuel system oh God look at that

perfect example fill the tube the shape

of a tube with tar that cannot be moved

once we were done playing with the goo

we put the new fuel pump in and hooked

everything up excited to see if the

truck would run on its own I think it h

pump I don't know we'll find

out come

on

the a lot of

learning

that hog ass

P there we go break this your nipple

rusted

off that's more like

it

can't believe it even tries to run like

that we need to get creative to find a

way to fix this exhaust manifold missing

all of its bolts which we have an idea

for either way there we go the ranger

runs for the first time in 7 years and

it has a transmission hook to it before

we put the bed back on we had a couple

things we wanted to do yet the first of

those is replacing the passenger side

shackle on the Springs now the Rangers

are really common for this and if you

ever see one where the tailgate all

crooked yet the front of the bed is

level that means the rear shackle has

rusted out in the spring is up against

the bottom of the bed my right side

shackle did this years ago and I fixed

it then but I figured while this bed is

still off let's go ahead knock out the

driver's side too because it also had a

bunch of rust holes in it now this job

is pretty tricky but eventually I was

able to sandwich the New Shackle bushing

into place get everything hooked up and

we're good to go this morning we are

back on the ranger working on this I am

currently putting on a new starter

solenoid Angus is putting our new filler

neck in place on the fuel tank and we

are waiting on tires to be mounted so we

can go pick those up and get the sucker

on Wheels and get it outside to paint

the

frame yeah it's a thunderstorm right now

I don't know quite how we're going to do

that one but well that's easy we'll save

on water this way yeah we'll scrub it in

the rain just like the old junkyard digs

videos either way uh it's been a good

3-day week in here we moved Angus into

his new house yay it was a lot of

cleaning the guy smoked for like 30

years in there so it was the ceiling was

black clean now Angus has a home to live

in this crab is found to New

Shell yeah bit of a slow morning here

nice rainy day so just kind of tinkering

Along on small stuff finishing up things

on the rinder oh we should be able to

bleed the brakes and clutch now we got a

oh yeah absolutely new wheel cylinders

on the rear

so after bleeding the brakes and clutch

we took some time to change the oil

check all the differentials for fluid

fill the transmission and change all the

fluid in the transfer

case well I don't feel super super good

about that I don't feel terrible about

it this was your high school truck which

means high school rules

apply get the SE clamps out for the

exhaust leag the seat clamps and the

duct tape it's all she

needs back in high school I ran a set of

BFG uh original BFG allterrain Tas on

this I was going to go with the bfgs

again for the ko2s but they are very

spendy General Grabber makes the ATX

which is as you can see a very similar

tread has some sidewall patterns and is

very deep they've also gotten pretty

expensive these were like 230 a tire 225

so they're only a little bit cheaper

than the old bfgs but they're still

cheaper all right let's get these

suckers on

there this is why I was never in

basketball with the new tires in place

the moment had finally come for the

first time in 7 years I crawled back in

the cab of my Ranger fired it up and

drove it under its own

power with the truck outside it was time

to start on the final steps we started

things off by washing the engine bay in

the frame after that we dug into the

interior because it smelled really bad

of mouse piss God damn Ang see vacuum to

seats right I was just going to say

somebody sucked our seats away

unfortunately there is only one way to

get mice smell out of a vehicle and that

is to take it all the way to the steel

we got to pull the entire interior out

of this truck to get all the mouse nests

and mouse pisss out of it out of the

HVAC system out of the dash underneath

the carpet the carpet headliner

everything has to come out so that we

can scrub this all with soap and water

and then it'll be good to go

oh there we go that's why we're going

this deep while Angus scrubbed the floor

pans I primed and undercoated the

exposed part of the frame so we could

put the bed back on after letting the

truck dry all night we came in the next

morning and unfortunately the interior

still ReRe of mice we decided they were

living in the HVAC system and

unfortunately that meant we had to pull

the dash Angus volunteered to tackle

that job while I worked on scrubbing all

the interior pieces all right I think I

got it now there you go that only took

all day oo yeah that would have stunk

forever and ever uh it still stinks now

I'll have you know how's the inside oh

yeah they were living in there holy cow

they've been around nothing active but

oh there's a mud dber nest in there I'm

going to get this pad off cuz I think

they've been

oh dude yeah they've been getting some

some housing material this is the

Menards of mice this is where they're

getting their materials from

we'll take that off clean that down too

yeah we'll scrub the entire interior now

with one more door panel we're down to

full steel so and at that point throw a

351 wi what the that's nowhere closer to

doing that ready to just what we'll have

to get a different transmission which is

the whole reason we did any of

this I thought we just wipe it down and

put it back together I don't like that

plan but all right you're the boss turns

out here and there there are covers that

you can remove on the Ford Range to wash

out the cowl and remove any uh stuff

from it to get the drains open no like

sticks and scrubs and stuff nothing

really now this is something you should

not just do on your Ford Ranger full of

mouse crap but something you should do

on every car pop these off they're on

every vehicle I don't know where they

are in every vehicle I don't know what

car you're working on Google it don't

email

me and it will tell you faster than you

can write me an email give it a Google

figure out where these are pop them off

and flush flush out your cow drains and

it helps keep your cowl from rusting out

and keeping water and stuff from getting

down underneath your dash by the way if

it ever rains you get water on the floor

it's your cwel is leaking somewhere this

in

here oh

God it's all going into the cab Kevin

you blowed it up yeah you get the vacuum

I'll get the hose we didn't think this

would be where the majority of the work

of this truck landed but it took us all

of 2 or 3 days to clean the interior of

this truck we scrubbed everything carpet