finally started my mods for my expedition truck

[big sky trapper]

hmmm mines an 84/22R and its on the drivers side, with the original air box inlet just under the driverside head light, see above i linked my install post with a few pics. for a schematic www.4x4connection.com has one posted as well for the 84-88's. if you need I can scan my install instruction sheets from arb and post them tommorrow night. But they are identical to whats on 4x4 con site....

 

[toyrunner95]

CRAP!!!! i have to figure out how to make a box, and a transfer pipe to fit to the snorkel should i go around the front of the motor or around the back with some square pvc pipe.

O i forgot to tell you, i dont have a stock airbox, i have an edelbrock air intake, which means that i have a couple holes in the top of my carburator with some valves or something on the top. when i move the little round flaps the motor gets louder so im still trying to figure out what that thing is for. i think it has something to do with the air and gas, took my eyebrows off once!













BTW that was sarchasm.

 

[big sky trapper]

can you post a pic under your hood so we can see exactly what ya got under there...and where...makes mocking up a lot easier...

 

[toyrunner95]

yeah give me a couple days, i have to go fetch it from the back forty.

 

[toyrunner95]

ok well i have been fiddeling around with my truck and have made a few small steps; and a couple major setbacks. FIRST the forward progress.

i remounted my axe and shovel mounts to the hood so they are off the sides and out of the way,

the second thing i did was remount my front licence plate with maglight clips to the fairlead. it works pretty well and i used some extra wire as a teather just in case.

the set back i encountered, that i dont have pictures of, is that my t case has a crack in the housing, i know i was thrilled to find this out too.

O and here are the pics of my motor, so you can see the carb that im working with.

 

[Kevinj110]

weld a box up and cut the funny webber shape outta the bottom and weld a pipe onto the drivers side of it make it flat if ya have to and wrap it in header wrap so it doesnt get too hot and get some bends in to make it work for the one arb has.

 

[big sky trapper]

Yup thats the weber I linked above to. You can weld a box...but its a lot of tin work to get it to seal right. I had a jeep wrangler many years ago, and in the end I just purchased the adapter box. It will still maintain your filter and sits high enough that you will be able to run 2" muffler pipe almost a straight shot to the fender across to the drivers side. with out any flatning of the tube. You will still have to relocate the voltage regulator and the coil off one bolt hole then drill anew for the now missing ones.

From memory...the adadpter box will only go on one way, so making a pass side inlet wont work with out lots of butchery to the adapter.

An alternative for about half the price and will look just about as clean install is locate your fender opening and run down to the local muffler shop and have them bend you the pipe to fit the contours of the fender and windsheild. (should run about 30 bucks for 10' stick and a few bucks for the bending. ) then just order the snorkel head from ARB. I did this for a freind with a Ranger that turned out pretty good Even copied the inlet head as well out of sheet metal. I'll see if I can get some pics on the way to work this eve if your interested. to mount to the body I welded some tabs along the lower section and one on the upper and self tapping screwed it to the body, done.

There are also several examples over on yotatech as well some are very nicely done too and some extreamly poorly ones as well, but....

 

[toyrunner95]

could you link me to a few, i looked but couldent find anything, i plan on making the bedsides this weekend and maybe the tire carrier, ill put up pics

 

[toyrunner95]

well i got some more accomplished this weekend, i sure hope GOD doesnt take offence to me all workin on sunday and whatnot. anyway, i went down to my local steele reamer and got the sheet metal for my bed, so far so good, but wow do i have quite a bit of work to do. two of the seven pieces that i got were cut correctly, the wings where too big by an inch, the sides were too tall by an inch and a half, and the deck is short by an inch. UGGG!!! there are gaps all over the place because i couldent get the metal to fit right over the original welds without grinding them compleatly off.... just a long series of WHAT THE?!s and god *&#@%, and a few other choice words. long story short after $200 and a lot of cursing, not to mention a few burns, i finlly got it stuck together.

however i did get some good news, today, i called up bedrug and tried to find out if i could get a custom bed reg made, turns out that i can get the stuff for $9.00 a linear foot, so i think i can do my bed for about $50
now for better news, at work we are doing an invintory which means that all the things that we arent "supposed" to have, like discontinued things that we have one left and supposed to have zero. so i was digging around checking numbers and whatnot and i came accross a hard top roof carrier, asked the boss, i got a free one! so now i have a place to put all my clothes and things and keep them dry and out of harms way. i will show you the ideas later, hopefully sooner.

tell me what u think

joe

 

[toyrunner95]

heres the pics

 

[toyrunner95]

MORE MODS!!!

ok i got to work today on my tirecarrier, scott tell the guys at domello that they have a good design, i copied it as best as i could and wow its alot stronger than i thought. im going to start on my tailgate tomorrow, i have all the stuff for the most part i just need to put it all together, hopefully some paint too.

tell me what you think!

 

[toyrunner95]

well i got to paint yesterday and now i have something that appears to be an expedition truck. so far i think i have done a decent job of creating a expedition truck from literally next to nothing. i wish i could have painted the actual truck though, its just an ugly looking beast. but for the most part it gets the job done. im still leery of the mechanics of the truck, i havent had a problem that i couldent quickly diagnose and fix within a day. but im still cautious about driving it long distances. that will come with time, it needs to earn my trust.

anyway here are some of the last modification pictures i hope you enjoyed it so far!

 

[toyrunner95]

well i got some bad news today from my parents, the tree that my car was parked under needed to come down so my dad had to move the truck, no biggi right? wrong! i dont know what happened but my dad said he heard a noise, then a clunk, then a bang, and now it wont go. it runns and you can feel the clutch engage the tranny but i think my t-case gave up the ghost. it was acting funny the last time i drove it and i found a crack in the housing before i left. SOOOOO with the 22r on the way out, the frame all tweaked, and other numerous things that need work, i have decided that i am going to buy a newer truck. probably a 95ish toyota pickup. i already have the parts for an SAS and the tires that fit and all that jazz so im thinking im going to use it as a parts truck then scrap it.

 

[flyingwil]

That sucks... just as it was starting to take shape. Keep us posted on your findings.

 

[toyrunner95]

its not really BAD news, its more of something i can guilt trip my parents into helping me buy something hehehehe jk. so anyway, yeah i can fix it or buy another one for the same price. we will see what happens, im a senior in college so hopefully i will be out of here soon and can work on my truck for more than 3 months at a time.