Thread: 93 4x4 Explorer

Havent seen the Expo down by hell, I mean work, lately...

Originally Posted by jeepspeed

Ha the little stuff is the the stuff that takes a long time. Post em up john.

That was suppose to be in the Explorer thread. Long night last night. I am working up in Twentynine Palms for the next 6 months and had just drove in. I will get some pictures up in a couple days.

been in vegas yo!
i drove by your truck today, didnt see you though

Originally Posted by TMorf

Havent seen the Expo down by hell, I mean work, lately...

Originally Posted by jeepspeed

been in vegas yo!
i drove by your truck today, didnt see you though

Yeah I saw the Expo today too when I hit up TBell for lunch (big mistake).

Originally Posted by jeepspeed

been in vegas yo!
i drove by your truck today, didnt see you though

i never get invited anywhere cool.

dudeeee that tbell has been killin me. Same with the subway there. Any other t bell or subway is perfect, but these two are no bueno.
Gettin kinda burnt on this thing, but thats just cause a lot of things are happening all at once. Things i need to fix asap, and want done by the clean up.
1. Tranny(MOST IMPORTANT)
2. Tubs(which i will have done for sure)
3. Rear Shocks/Hoops(Hopefully have the cash for it)
4. Re Arch and get new bushings in the springs.

To Come After The Clean Up In No Particular Order
1. Paint.
2.Cage.
3.Links.
4.Bypasses
5. Bumps.

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youre more than welcome to come sit at work with us mac

Originally Posted by doyouquaxu

i never get invited anywhere cool.

i meant vegas, ass hole! and i'm helping you with the trans still, arent i?

this is going to be a lot of beer drinking and a little tranny swapping....

ahaa mac and chris!
mac you are helping for sure, so is chris! ill supply the transmission whose bringing the beer?

chris already called it. i'll bring my tools, whit, and charisma.

drove down to lakeside today and picked up a new 8.8 with 4.56s! Hopefully ill get it installed tomorrow, painted it all grey, took the shackles off repainted them grey aswell. Replaced all the bolts in the leafpack and cleaned them up and painted aswell. Nice little prep can make everything look brand new. Painting the front suspension tomorrow aswell, and gotta take the radius arm heims out due to them jamming through the bung and wedging into the pivot. See what the deal is with that.

well the gears seem to high to me, my speedometer needle passes the max speed on the speedo and goes to the d in the gear selector :/
think a good way to fix it is throw 35s on! hahah. Gonna hopefully have my tubs installed by the clean up, but i doubt it.

Lol you can regear the speedo. There is a couple threads about it, you just replace the gear that goes into the trans. I went to do it though and my local ford stealership is a bunch of dumbasses and couldn't find the part for me with out me bringing it in.

Anyways post some pictures of it all painted up, I wanna check it out!

no let him get 35s so i can get his 33s.

he should get 35's regardless

i know i can get it recalibrated, but wheres the fun in that?!
35s ftw im thinking, and mikey ill grab some pics tomorrow gotta get under there to replace some things anyway

im thinking you dont have 456 gears. Check them out. Also, what are your RPM at what speeds? 35's would be nice, but get your rear end done

My old explorer was 4.56 on worn 32s when i first got it, and doing about 70 the needle pointed at the D in the gear selector. When i went to 35s it got better and it still felt plenty powerful.

im trying to find a good way to count gears cause ive never done it, but i will see what happens. The rear will be done once money permits, ill have my pinion angle/12inch saws mounted on saturday so i can atleast have a little fun at the clean up. If i can get my intake manifold fixed first. 35s arent important to me, when these wear away we will see how i feel on it then, but ill run these till its new tire time.

Originally Posted by wtwcowboy

im thinking you dont have 456 gears. Check them out. Also, what are your RPM at what speeds? 35's would be nice, but get your rear end done

like i said above, we will see where i go with it. Im not dead set on anything at this point

Originally Posted by mounty71

My old explorer was 4.56 on worn 32s when i first got it, and doing about 70 the needle pointed at the D in the gear selector. When i went to 35s it got better and it still felt plenty powerful.

I always thought it was weird that my speedo wasnt off that much. Withg 4.56 and 33" tires my speedo is only off by about 5mph (if that) going 70 or even 45 for that matter. I never asked for a speedometer gear replacement when I got my gears installed and I know I didnt pay for it but maybe that is a common practice for that shop I went to. I would still count the teeth and see what you have so you know for sure. (ring gear divided by pinion gear)

I have 456s in mine with 35s and I never did any speedo gear changing. Im off by a couple percent. At 65 on my speedo a speed sign told me I was at 62

Get the back tires in the air and spin the tire one full rotation.. Count how many times the pinion spins.

Basically 1 tire turn= how many driveshaft turns?
3 full rotations is 3.xx gears, 4 rotations is 4.xx gears, 5 rotations is 5.xx gears.
Say it turns about four and a half times, that translates to 4.5. Since there isn't a 4.5 gear ratio, it's most likely 4.56. If it turns about four and three quarter times, since there is no 4.75 it's most likely 4.88's. See how it works?

well that sounds easy as shit ha, thanks for that tip kevin!

35s and a trophy truck bumper. then go huck it. just my opinion.
lol

looking good tho! if i end up going to the clean up i wanna see this thing in action!

it can only handle so much "action" at its current state but it will be there. I kinda wanna do that trophy truck valance thing.
My pinion angle is gonna be fixed on saturday thank god! and some shocks mounted up temporarily. The tubs need to be done and i need to deal with the intake manifold leak. Hoping i can get it all finished for the clean up

Do the bigger wheel tubs get in the way of the back seats or anything?

nope, my plan is to keep it with full interior. Wanna keep it comfortable as possible. Just gonna trim up the plastic trim in the rear to sit over the tubs. Cant wait!!!

Just RTV the upper intake manifold, when you take it off if you're too cheap to buy a new gasket. I put a gasket and rtv on mine and never had a problem. I also torqued them down way more then rated lbs lol. I thought I posted something like this in your thread already but I am not sure. Anyways I am still waiting on the painted pics!

ya but if im already there why not just replace it? idk im gonna look at it here soon and see what the deal is. so when we trading mikey

new update finally!!
NEW 2.5 16s going through the floor the week after christmas, tubs, and new 4000s. And hopefully by the end of january it will be painted

lucky!!!!
what color are you painting it?

Shit brown since it's a turd

hahaha

Originally Posted by doyouquaxu

Shit brown since it's a turd

hes jealous cause i have btf lt and he doesnt.

Originally Posted by ray aguilar

hahaha

two colors going through my head, either silver or blueish green

Poo brown and peanut tan. The perfect combo. Expo looked good the other day, I actually did a loop around it instead of cruising straight through. So who was the dude that works at Henrys we busted for jacking eye drops when he was stoned? Hahaha

Hey, poo brown and peanut tan was the color combo of my first explorer. It IS the perfect combo.

go silverish.

we will see what happens, for all i know ill pick the color, then get there and see a new one i want.


And taylor ahaah, i was gonna ask you about that ahahha. such a dumb kid

got a new windsheild installed! only took a year ahha. Just hooked up 4 new alpine type s speakers. And saturday the new shocks should be going in the rear

fuck me finally!
bedcage built by Kevin Knight of Good Knight Racing.

hi lift jack mount.