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Adding a plow
I'm thinking of putting a snowplow on my truck. Do I need to upgrade the front suspension. If so what would I need?
It would only be for plowing out my driveway (although I live north of Syracuse NY and we get about 150" a year!) 99 Ranger XLT 3.0 liter CAI Underdrive pulleys cat back exhaust |
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Re: Adding a plow
stiffer springs may help. but the problem is rangers have zero weight in the back so they have zero traction. probably not a good idea to use as a plow.
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starting to love my 93 ranger w/3.0 5 speed. |
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Re: Adding a plow
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my wifes sportage had no problems and neither did the fwd drive cars on my street. now light maybe 3 or less inches might be handleable for the ranger. but they suck rear traction wise. tires designed for snow may help.
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Re: Adding a plow
If you want to plow snow you should have a FWD. I had a plow on a cub low boy and had to get the rear tires loaded about 500lbs. Otherwise it would't push snow. You are talking about a lot of snow I also used chains.
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Re: Adding a plow
Thanks for the info.
If I have to load up the ranger with 500 pounds that little 3.0L will struggle and since it is my dailey driver the mpg will be aweful! |
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Re: Adding a plow
yep, i noticed with all of the spinning of tires and careful driving and the weight i went down to 14 mpg. but i remember seeing somewhere that weight. does not affect gas mileage as much as we think.consider this
a family packs up the minivan and goes for a picnic. the drive there would be about 23mpg for the trip the same family a week later packs up for camping and manages to keep all of the stuff in side the minivan but the gear is alot heavier but gasmileage only drops 1-2 mpgs the thing is more gas is spent getting up to speed then maintaining it.
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Re: Adding a plow
first is the ranger 4wd? if yes, does the low range work? if yes, is the front end damaged at all? If no, I would suggest a hitch plow, light weight(approx. 250 lbs.) not a conventional plow. Look at jcwhitney for hitch plows to get an idea. They are snowsport snowplows, may be able to google this to the actual website. Just put on a front hitch (approx. 110 dollars). Very easy to put on 4 bolts out, 4 bolts back in.
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