"BAR" wrote in message
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jim wrote:

Even my car can and has towed 2300 lbs. It's not a big deal.


Ask Don how he stops the little Ranger 4x2 and the 2300 lb load. I would
bet that the little itty bitty transmission in that little Ranger 4x2 is
about at it's end of life.



I don't know about that. The Ranger is a tough little truck for it's size
and should handle that weight without any problems.
It uses a Mazda transmission that has been well proven.

I towed a car trailer with my John Deere tractor and backhoe attachment on
it a few miles to my daughter's house with the Ranger I had. The tractor
probably weighs close to 4000 lbs ... maybe more and the trailer was about
1400 lbs. I wouldn't recommend this, nor would I do it again (one of the
reasons I got the F-250 SuperDuty), but I was amazed at how well the little
truck handled it.

I was also amazed that the town cop that watched by pass by him didn't stop
me. The whole setup looks ridiculous with the trailer and tractor about
twice the size of the little truck. But ... he just stared and let me go
by.

Eisboch

On Oct 22, 9:39*am, "Eisboch" wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message

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jim wrote:

Even my car can and has towed 2300 lbs. It's not a big deal.

Ask Don how he stops the little Ranger 4x2 and the 2300 lb load. I would
bet that the little itty bitty transmission in that little Ranger 4x2 is
about at it's end of life.

I don't know about that. *The Ranger is a tough little truck for it's size
and should handle that weight without any problems.
It uses a Mazda transmission that has been well proven.

My son in law had a Ranger, I'm guessing '95 or so, had the Mazda four
cylinder with manual tranny. Well, the tranny started leaking pretty
badly out of the rear seal, and he had a friend that put a junkyard
tranny in it. He filled it with gear oil, like most manual trannys.
Well, when everything cooled down on the truck at night, the next
morning it was very hard to shift. We did a little research, lo and
behold in the shop manual, there it was. The manual tranny used ATF
fluid as a lubricant!

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My son in law had a Ranger, I'm guessing '95 or so, had the Mazda four
cylinder with manual tranny. Well, the tranny started leaking pretty
badly out of the rear seal, and he had a friend that put a junkyard
tranny in it. He filled it with gear oil, like most manual trannys.
Well, when everything cooled down on the truck at night, the next
morning it was very hard to shift. We did a little research, lo and
behold in the shop manual, there it was. The manual tranny used ATF
fluid as a lubricant!
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I had the same experience with an '87 Ranger, except it was done by
Jiffy-Lube.
They did their typical sales routine and recommended changing the
transmission gear oil. I stupidly agreed.

The high school kid working there after school drained out the ATF and
filled it back up with 90 weight gear oil.
The next morning I couldn't put it in any gear until mid afternoon when the
temperature warmed up.

Eisboch

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:39:11 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

I don't know about that. The Ranger is a tough little truck for it's size
and should handle that weight without any problems.
It uses a Mazda transmission that has been well proven.

Back when we had two horsies, a mule (which was incredibly smarter
than both the horsies put together), goats, sheep and a freakin' cow
when we were living up at the farmhouse, I had a 4 cylinder
w/automatic 4X4 Ranger - I beat the snot out of that truck hauling
hay, wood, feed, gravel, sand for bedding - you name it. On more than
one occasion (when I was still an active hunter) through the woods to
drag out a deer or a brace of resident goose.

I beat it up so bad, that at 180K miles I sold it to one of the local
farmers for $150. :)

You know that truck is still running on it's original engine and
tranny? It's 14 years old and still bouncing around pastures chasing
heifers and hauling bales of hay and silage out to the feed lots.

It's nothing but a flat bed and cab now - no fenders even the last
time I saw it, smokes like hell, but it still runs.