Explorers

[Zorro]

preacherman,

I got an Explorer for parts, but it may have been less expensive to just buy the bits separately. It's very straightforward, to be honest, even the wiring is dead simple, 4-5 wires to be welded together.

Bits lifted from the Explorer:
- transmission
- transmission plate (little plate in the cab)
- shift stick
- rubber boot
- flywheel (had it resurfaced)
- clutch pedal (incredible PITA)
- ECU
- starter

Parts bought
- clutch kit (new)
- clutch slave (new)
- clutch master (used ... Explorer and Ranger masters are different, at least from a 91 X to 94 Ranger)

I made a thread for it on therangerstation.com, if ya want to do a bit of reading (bunch of pictures too)
http://therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14966



Stumpy,
only recently have I figured out that the previous owner had left the auto hub nut on the now manual hub. And it's locked via notches ... usually one notch is a bit loose, and the next one is just too tight. Since I burned down a bearing by having it "one too tight", I run them one too slack.
I will see if the new nut/counter-nut for the manual hub will work better (at least it will be torqued accurately!). It still won't solve the water intrusion problems.

 

[98dango]

A buddie of mine loves his. he has owned 2 beat them harder than aney rig should have ever been used. A 5.5 super lift 3" body 36' irocks its driven daily 20 niles each way. Wheeled every weekend beat with in an inch of its existance. He will honestly with a stricy face tell you bolt that sucks in firts gear till she redlines then let here eat for about 20 mins then ur stuck. Call the babby jeep (me) to get pulled out drive here home with ur lil kids in it.

 

[preacherman]

Thanks for the info. I have seen a flood of really cheap explorers on the market lately and have been thinking about a cheap expo explorer build.

 

[UK4X4]

I think my old venezuelan one was the later series..but still saw a lot of overland travel.

The main diference with overlanding and "offroading" in the US sence is that with overlanding...you go round the obstacle if there's a bypass.

You take it easy and slowly as breakage can leave you stranded for days...............or even weeks depending where and what.

The last pic show's a stuck, even though I could have probably just stuck in reverse and tried to drive out...the whole front of the truck was sat in the dirt......so i took my time- highlifted the front, filled the hole bit by bit till I could drive out without ripping off any engine components

I found the explorer to be a good sized rig, and reasonably capable off road

In venezuela off road parts are only available for Toyo's ....so home made was the deal of the day.

Suspension nothing available off the shelf ...

front torque tubes rotated to the max
rear lengthened re-enforced shackles
extended front leaf mounts 2 "
added a secondary full length spring leaf..from a scap yard hunt- no idea what vehicle the guy just had a selection of leafs....
rancho shocks all round

Bull bar bumper...custom.....and they did an excellent job even canting the uprights to match the oval.

Added 4 off 2" tubes from the bumper back down to the front suspension mounts and cross beam

With the truck being heavy and no heavier torque tubes available,

This protected the radiator-oil cooler, hoses and front of the sump
and had a nice angle down to the lowest dangly bits

I did it in tubes to allow for air flow rather than a flat plate

If I bottomed ...it took the hit......not the important bits

Custom rack mounted into standard rails..1" X 1/16" strip slides into the factory mountings.....