93 Ranger TTB Rock Crawler

[CowBro]

Bringing this thread here to document on going mods and work on the truck. This year marks 23 years of ownership of my little red Ranger. Back in 03 (high school) she was bone stock with a camper shell. I added a body lift and some 33's and made it through college like that.


After college she got a little neglected for a few years, I built up a 5.0 Bronco2 rock crawler. Then a 93 Ranger short box Rock Crawler.


I always wanted a prerunner, so the red truck got fiberglass fenders, deavers, d44 full width beams and 35s. Eventually some King 2.5x8 resi's up front and some SAW 2.5s out back and single swing steering.





After 5 or 6 years of having two '93 Rangers, one rock crawler and one prerunner, i decided that was silly and took all the good rock crawling parts off of the black ranger and swapped them onto the red one including the stock steel front fenders and step-side bed so i wouldn't smash up the fiberglass on the rocks.

This was ~2021:

Full specs:
4.0v6 - Stock
5speed manual
Atlas2 t-case 5:1 ratio
Front end:
D44 TTB cut and turned,
2" drop brackets
4" lift coils
2.5x8 King resis
2x2 Fox Air bumps
ARB locker and 4.88s
Rear end:
Explorer 8.8
ARB locker and 4.88s
Yukon Chromo Shafts and c-clip eliminator
Deaver F31 Springs - Swapping to G50 pack
SAW 2.5x14 resi shocks
Custom bumpers front and rear
9000lb winch
Rock sliders
heavy duty t-case skid plate
37" Yokohama Geolander MT's
17x8.5 US Wheel fake beadlocks
Rock lights, small light bar up front.
Interior is mostly stock aside from some Corbeau reclining seats.

 

[CowBro]

The name of the game has mostly just been maintenance and wheeling it as much as I can. Last year i swapped in a new steering box and promptly blew out the seals on it leading to this swap of a superduty steering box:

Thread 'OBS/TTB conversion to 2011+ Superduty steering box'

Nov 4, 2025

After being away from the forums for what seems like forever, it is hard to get back into it, but I want to do my part to support this place, and hopefully help bring back the feel of the old days. This is my latest upgrade to my 93 Ranger, but the tech should translate over to any TTB Ranger, 80-96 F-150/250/350 that is running the stock steering box. My truck is running a modified D44 TTB up front with stock style steering, coil springs, 2.5" resi shocks and 2x2 air bumps. The rear end is a set of F31 Deavers and 2.5 SAW's. 4.0, 5speed, 5:1 Atlas, ARB's front and rear, 4.88s, chromo...

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I started tearing down the rear end for some off-season prep and discovered the F31 Deaver pack was cracking, so i ordered up a G50 (race pack) to swap in. When i was loaded up with camping gear, i was maxing out the weight capacity of the F31 pack.

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

Cool history!

 

['84 Bronco II]

I dig the Ranger, it's cool to see another TTB Ford out on the trails. Is your front end ~4" wider than the rear, or are you running spacers to compensate?

 

[CowBro]

Is your front end ~4" wider than the rear, or are you running spacers to compensate?

I just went out and measured. Front outside of tire to outside of tire is 79", rear is 76", so 3" total or about 1.5" per side which is just about right the sweet spot. The rear has the c-clip eliminator kit that adds ~1.25" per side and i have 1.5" wheel spacers on the rear too. So roughly 5.5" of additional width added to the explorer axle. Which would check out at the front ttb is about 4" wider per side than the explorer axle. I was running the rear without the spacers, and it worked fine, but i kept hitting the bedsides on stuff, so i added the spacers to help push the tires out and keep the rocks off the body, so far so good on that front.

~Phil

 

[CowBro]

I'm going to try to get this thread all caught up to present day.
I took her to KoH last year (2025) for the first time in 11 years. She got some brand new 37" Yokohamas on some closeout US wheel fake beadlock wheels that I scored for like $80 per wheel. It seemed like too good of a deal to pass up for cheap aluminum wheels. I had bent one of the steel wheels the previous summer, so I had been on the lookout for something more sturdy.

The KoH trip was moderately eventful, i never re-torqued the wheels after bolting them on the first time, and the front passenger tire fell off south-east of hammertown. Lol. It wouldn't have been a big deal, but my buddy had ripped his engine cage off the frame of his ranger, so I left him with my jack and tools while i ran back to camp to grab the welder. So without tools or a jack i had to bum a ride back to camp and then go run rescue ops in the tow rig. Good times.

Temporary camper shell/Koh Cabin on the tow rig.

3 wheeling!

 

[CowBro]

When i got back from KoH, I tore the truck down for a front end prep on the TTB to get ready for the summer wheeling season. The old style ARB (3 piece case) i had in the front diff spit a bolt out and luckily it didn't get mixed up in the ring and pinion. I decided I didn't want to push my luck as i had already broken the center pin on the old style ARB back in 2023. So I dropped in a brand new ARB.

 

[CowBro]

We had a great summer of wheeling on the Rubicon. Only breakage to report was the CV on the front driveshaft. I ran the RTF loop for the first time, at the far back end of the loop i bound up the front end, turned on the locker and "Pop". The "H" part of the CV split. I'm not 100% sure why other than too much torque? The CV does not bind at droop, we are chocking it up as a fluke.

Here is where I broke. Bound up on the big rock on the passenger side.

The carnage:

The repair, prior to popping in a new 1310 u-joint. I turned the CV driveshaft into a single u-joint by removing all of the CV bits, and cutting up the piece that bolts to the t-case yoke to make two "straps" to bolt it back in. Unfortunately the slip didn't have enough travel to allow it to bolt up, so i had to cut the driveshaft in half on the trail and then i used a chunk of my rock slider to sleeve the driveshaft to make it longer. I drove all the way out on this shaft, no issues.

The best part was my wife actually got a video of the breakage, she was hiking ahead on the trail and just happened to turn around and film me, not knowing what was about to happen. I'm going to try to upload some videos to youtube and post them here. The worst part about that trip was my wife roller her ankle right after the trail repair and we were worried that she tore something so we drove straight home from from there.

 

[CowBro]

Lets see if this works:

 

[MDM]

I'm going to try to get this thread all caught up to present day.
I took her to KoH last year (2025) for the first time in 11 years. She got some brand new 37" Yokohamas on some closeout US wheel fake beadlock wheels that I scored for like $80 per wheel. It seemed like too good of a deal to pass up for cheap aluminum wheels. I had bent one of the steel wheels the previous summer, so I had been on the lookout for something more sturdy.

The KoH trip was moderately eventful, i never re-torqued the wheels after bolting them on the first time, and the front passenger tire fell off south-east of hammertown. Lol. It wouldn't have been a big deal, but my buddy had ripped his engine cage off the frame of his ranger, so I left him with my jack and tools while i ran back to camp to grab the welder. So without tools or a jack i had to bum a ride back to camp and then go run rescue ops in the tow rig. Good times.

Temporary camper shell/Koh Cabin on the tow rig.

3 wheeling!

I hate when wheels decide to leave without a goodbye. Last one I saw out my driver window passing me.

 

[posford]

Things sick. I want to build another TTB Ranger as my 91 morphed into a convoluted mud truck. This is what my 94 would have became if I hadn't sold it.