I am looking at the possibility of adding an aftermarket bumper to the front of my US market '24 XLT that would require the cutting of the fender flares. Unfortunately, the NA market trucks have a reflector/marker light in them that would be right in the cut path so I am looking to see what my...
Took a trip up into the NY North Country to help out with a collegiate off-road race and spent an extra day and night up in the Adirondacks testing out my current camping setup. The mountains weren't at peak color yet, but still awful nice
Then I headed down and played with the Rock Crawl...
@braupe has already posted about these tow points with a lot of good pictures here but since I've been documenting the install of the full suite of @RIVAL 4x4 skid plates on my '24 XLT non-FX4 I figured I'd add a video of the install process for these too. These tow points are almost comically...
My truck is a standard XLT, non-FX4, so despite there being a lot of available skid plate options for the powertrain the one I haven't really seen available was a radiator skid. Since Ford thinks they're made of gold and since I have already installed the rest of the @RIVAL 4x4 skids on my truck...
There have been plenty of discussions on here about changing oil with the various motors and most have found that the factory oil plug generally results in a mess when removed. While many have chosen to go with a replacement oil plug with a drain valve, I've gone a different direction and am...
TLDR version: I made a custom bed rack for my truck
I picked up my ’24 XLT last year with the goal of using it to tow my track car, shuttle canoes and dogs around, take care of home projects, and hopefully do some overlanding eventually (including camping at race tracks). The towing part has...
Thanks to the heads-up by @bdallas9 I was able to get in on the pre-order of the new TackForm TRAXX dash mount system and unlike a lot of other pre-orders, it actually arrived early. I chose the Slim Track option and picked up a mag mount for a radar detector initially with one of their blue...
There's been a flurry of manufacturers showing off or releasing Molle panels for the NA crowd recently but I'm not after full panels. I wanted something more like what PirateCampCo has for the Aussie folks but between shipping to the US and wanting something to work with the receiver shackle...
I purchased my '24 XLT without the FX4 package and since I plan to do some overlanding with the truck in the future I have been gradually armoring it up with the complete set of skids from @RIVAL 4x4. The last piece of the puzzle arrived recently and I finally had an opportunity to install it...
Since I'm towing my track car with my '24 and plan to do some camping/overlanding with it in the future I really wanted a good secure way to mount a fire extinguisher in the cab. Most of the mounts I was finding were from Australian companies which put them on the driver's side of my NA truck...
I purchased my '24 XLT without the FX4 package so I have been working on obtaining and installing the @RIVAL 4x4 aluminum plates for peace of mind protection for whatever future off-road travels may be ahead.
I had previously installed the engine skid plate which I detailed here but recently I...
Since our Rangers don't have a lot of storage space inside and no compartments in the bed I was at a bit of a loss for a place to keep my receiver shackle mount. I didn't want to leave it in my hitch because I don't expect to need it very often and I've had things rust-weld in hitches before...
I generally like the look and function of rally style mud flaps on vehicles. I've had great luck with the RallyArmor ones on my Golf R daily but neither they or RockBlokz are currently offering a fitment for the non-Raptor models. After doing some searching I found that RallyFlapz out of the UK...
Recently received and installed the Rival 4x4 USA forged aluminum engine skid on my '24 XLT. Super easy install especially since my truck wasn't equipped with any skid plates from the factory, but the process would be nearly identical on FX4 and Raptor trucks.
Overall fit and finish of the...
I decided to be a guinea pig and test the accuracy of Bestop's website that claims their SuperTop for Truck 2 soft top/tonneau cover setup fits 2019-2024 Ford Rangers (I also tried to verify through their chat last week which they again said it does fit 2024 trucks).
The good news is that it...