Re: 1991 ranger brake problem

"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vh0otb$1r6ir$1@dont-email.me...
A Bulgarian designer I have worked with perhaps said it best.  "The more
off road capable is your truck the further you must walk to find a
tractor."
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Well said.
My interest was exploring the back country, not tearing it up, the tread lightly ethic, so unlike my buddy with the Land Rover I didn't have to climb the steepest hills just to prove I could. That was the hold-my-beer episode, letting others feel superior for useless stunts doesn't bother me. Highway performance was important for me, to get to the mountains an hour or more away.
At the time I bought the Ranger a work friend from India used his engineer's paycheck to satisfy his long-time yearning for a Jeep, so we rode around in both. Though I didn't say so I felt that the 4WD Ranger was a much better choice for mainly half hour daily commuting with a little relatively mild exploring. With the 7 foot bed it was excellent for collecting firewood because it could access untouched areas where wider full-sized pickups hadn't. I used the winch to pull logs to the trail but never needed it to extricate the truck. After I had collected all the dead wood the truck could reach I switched to the narrower garden tractor and trailer. By then kids had discovered and torn up the trails such that in spring the low areas became mud pits I needed the winch to pass through.
The Ice Age melt filled in sand and gravel between the rocks and we don't have a bare boulder-strewn Rubicon to challenge us, only power line access roads and old dirt trails a horse and wagon could handle. The trail system here is very extensive but mostly suited to and maintained for snowmobiles which aren't so good on boulders or steep slopes, I found I could climb straight up a steeper grade than they could on properly waxed cross-country skis, and cross a filled-in gully they would sink into. The snowmobilers have built trail bridges across streams that would be too dangerous to cross on ice that running water kept from solidly freezing. Winter snow really opens up the woods to travel by freezing swamps and covering rocks and fallen trees that block trails in summer.