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I need to get some scratches on them so they will match the scratches on the explorer!Just don't scratch then up off road...lol They look great!
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I need to get some scratches on them so they will match the scratches on the explorer!Just don't scratch then up off road...lol They look great!
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awe Dave, your going to make me cry.BEst Explorer around Middle TN
It's lookin really good!
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Hopefully early next year I'll have some new mod's done. I am going to get some 4.56 gears for the Explorer, and I am going to fab up the frontend to put coilovers up front. The struts and spacers limit my wheel travel, so by going to some 6" travel coilovers will give more travel and more grip. Right now I can not do anything with the rear do to fords design. I am thinking about making it a solid axle in the rear, but that is on the backburner til I figure out how to mount it up.
All the explorers after the 2002 year have the IFS. The only problem with putting a solid axle is the frame. It sits lower because of the IFS. There is a guy putting a SAS on one that I am watching, as to sit really high because of the frame. Here's a pic of it, he only as the rear done.Does the Explorer have an IFS rear? Guess I never really looked all that closely at Ford SUVs and realised how ignorant I am about them, haha.
That would be the way a normal vehicle,but not with this. The body lays right on that frame, and plus you have the 3rd row seating. You would have to cut out the floor pan and redo it to fit over the notch. The frame is a disaster on these, not a very smart idea. Your CV shafts come thru the frame. They have 2 big holes on each side. I do not know what the engineer who came up with this was thinking, here's a pic to show you what I am talking about.Seems the way to do that would be to cut the frame and weld in a C-notch like they do for slammed pickups.