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So I've heard this was a somewhat famous rig on broncoii.org back in the day. I picked it up in October last year in southwest WA from the builder and immediately stopped at Elbe before heading home. It's geared a little high compared to my 21 but it got around great and was a riot. It has a...

All my Explorers are gone, sold the ST to help fund the 21 and sold the 07 because it was a never ending money pit. 21 Badlands, 2.3 7MT. 2.5" lift, 35" Mickey ATZ for general use and 37" Swamper SX2 for play.

Has anyone added heated mirrors to an explorer that didn't have them? I bought a set and need to wire them up.

Technically this is going in a Sport Trac but it applies to 2nd gen Explorers too and there's more traffic here. I'm doing a couple cosmetic upgrades and wanted to share. Stay tuned.

They had to break not one but two windows, middle and rear driver side on my 91 Sport. I'm currently digging through threads trying to find replacement tips.

What I have is a: 98 4.0L SOHC auto Explorer 90 F150 auto 5.8L 84 T19 4spd. This combination is going together one way or another. I've decided on two ways to go. Option 1 will probably provide better performance and will let the rig pass smog testing but it far more complicated. Option 2...

I've been going back and forth on these. I want to do a "junkyard" type build, a minimum of fancy aftermarket bling and lots of home fab with minimal cash into it. Proof of concept if you will. I want to run 38-40" tires so some beef is needed. Based on parts I have available, I've narrowed...

So I better build another. This is happening to my 91 in my sig. I just brought home a 90 F150 5.8/E4OD. I have no use for an auto so I'll have to figure out how to make the ECM play nice. I have a T19 out of a 84 F250 460 4x4 that has the low granny I plan to use. I still need to source a...

Anybody have a good resource for color matching OEM Ford interiors? The interior I'm trying to match is called charcoal but it's much darker than all the charcoal samples I've ordered from a few vendors and their blacks are too dark.

Basically stock that is, I did do 1" shackles/spacer to combat sag. Couldn't seem to find any info on this combo so I just went for it and it works. Have some minor rubbing at full lock because those Jeep rims have 3/4" more backspacing. Other than that all good. Sorry for the bad pic.

Nothing ground breaking here, it's been done before, but I threw together this lift in a few hours for free using scrap. The front spacer is a 1" tall piece of round tube welded under to the bottom of the stock seat and the rear shackles are 2" wide 1/4" flat bar. Bumped it up about 1.5" and...

I just brought home a fairly clean 2000 XLT auto 4x4 with 213k for $500. Problem is it has the worst rattle I've ever heard. Runs great other than the noise. Owner said it happened all at once and she stopped driving it that day. I also have a 01 SOHC sitting on my garage floor. From a manual...

Spoiler ending pic: Just how cheaply can a SAS be done? I'm about to find out. Granted, I'm cheating because I have almost everything on hand from SASing my other Ex. Should have no problem getting it driving for under $500, getting it geared and locked up for under $1000. Rig as it sits now...

I'm having a odd issue that has me stumped. I'll be cruising along then suddenly there's a massive power loss as if I just hit a 40 MPH headwind. If I turn off the ignition and restart, the power comes back like normal. It does this erratically and without a pattern, but usually at least once...

Well I need to make some decisions, namely what lug pattern I'm going to run. At first 5x5.5 was the easy choice with the 8.8 rear and D44 front, but it's not that simple. The extra width is starting to worry me. My baseline for width is the old D30 with 4" backspacing 15x8 wheels, giving 68.5"...

So I was digging around and comparing pictures and have an idea. Obviously it's well known the F150 Autometer column pod will fit our trucks. From the pictures and knowing how Ford like to share columns between models, I think the Autometer pod for 94-02 Mustangs would fit too, but only for...

Trying to decide what to do. It's a 91 3.0L MTX that runs great but the tranny grenaded. The car itself is pretty rough, it's borderline whether it's worth fixing. It's going to cost about $800 to get it going again with a lot of hours of hard work to end up with a car that might sell for $1000...

I told myself when I first did my SAS with the D30, it was a place holder for a D44 and when I was ready for the D44 I'd put the same brackets on it and bolt it in. Yeah right... My "Y-link" long arms (technically radius arms) performed pretty decently and handled well on the road. I was able...

I'm sure nobody has specific experience with this, but I know there's some smart guys here that might have ideas. First the background, my Ex was originally equipped with the 4.0L/M5R1HD combo. I am putting in a 3.9L Isuzu turbo diesel backed by a Dodge NV4500. The NV4500 uses an...

I know this is a long shot trying to do this with factory parts but here goes. I have white factory white face gauges in my Sport with tach and MPH speedo. I really like the look and want to keep them. However, it may not be possible to make the tach work with my new diesel engine, and even...

Anybody done one or considered it? I'm going to do it to my 01 while everything is torn apart for the diesel swap. I've got it mostly planned out and seems completely workable.

How much difficulty is involved in swapping a SOHC 4.0L into a first gen? I have a 91 that runs like crap and I can't figure out why, everything checks out good, so it's getting a new motor. I also have a 2001 that I'm pulling the motor out for my diesel swap. It has the death rattle but...

So question. I searched a bit but didn't find anything, I'm wondering if anybody has done a rear parallel 4 link using the stock leaf spring bracket for the LCA? I'm looking at about a 28" long arm, which is shorter than most long arm kits for Jeeps, but much longer than their stock arms or...

Need some ideas! 91 Ex with 285k. Mostly original, the prevous (and only) owner said almost nothing has been replaced. For a while now it's had a rough idle, I cleaned the MAF then replaced it and no help. Now it's gotten so bad it will sometimes die while idling and the truck shakes...

Maybe it's a weird idea, but my newly acquired SHO is really nasty inside and I was thinking about taking the center console and some other interior parts and putting them in the dishwasher. Bad idea?