WHOOPS!!

About this far....

Not an Explorer but I would call this a major failure. http://www.schexnayderracing.com/dyno/9-parts-fail-sometimes

Hey guys! I found out that explorers are still driveable for at least 10,000 miles with HALF OF A RING GEAR. Who knew!?

Picked up this truck to partout but as I dug into it runs and drives great (still after accident) and with the 3v 4.6 it hauls butt. I already have a ton of current projects but a little peice of me wants to use this drivetrain and possibly whole frame/suspension in something else. Any ideas? My first thought is standard cab ranger body on top of the explorer frame. P.S. Pay attention while driving or I may be chopping up your vehicle next

So, I know I'm not the first to post about this and I have a general idea of what's going on. I pulled into a gas station and I guess the parking brake didn't engage or I just plain forgot, but it rolled back with the driver's side door open, hitting a concrete halfwall thing. It wrenched the door back pretty far, and it wouldn't close. I ended up just putting a couple washers behind the latch so it would close, which it does, but not easily. Also, there's about a half inch gap between the edge of the door and the frame. And considering that my heater isn't working (front blower needs replaced) and I'm in Wyoming, it kinda sucks. I looked and the hinges are obviously bent (I could hear metal groan when it happened). It kinda looks like...

I was driving on a dirt road, must have been used with tractors cause it was real bumpy. Came back home and noticed it sounded slightly louder, along with metal banging. Looked under and the tailpipe was broken cleanly right behind the resonator. I'd be sad about this, but it actually sounds better now. I'm assuming it's illegal to drive with no tailpipe, but I hope not. Here's a photo of the resonator: https://i.imgur.com/sivYpjM.jpg I was thinking of replacing the muffler anyway, so I guess this is an option.

Just came back from a trip to Home Depot & lunch at a local Panara Bread. I pulled all the way through a parking spot to the adjacent spot (so that I don't have to back out when I leave), put the tranny into "Park" & set the parking brake as usual. I get out & while I'm zipping up my parka (hey, it's 10°F outside), I hear a plastic "Crunch". I look back, and a gal driving a Jeep Compass pulled into the spot behind me, put the tranny in "Park" & the Jeep rolled forward against the tranny's Parking Pawl, into my rear bumper. She rolled down her window & we had the following conversation: Me: "Did you set the brake?" Her: "What?" Me: "Did you set the Parking Brake?" Her (again): "What?" Me (again, but slower): "Did you set the Parking...

Went in too deep. Engine took in water and hydrolocked. I don't have any photos from the outside. Here's one of the water and me on the hood hooking up the tow strap. Instagram post by Robbie Krumm • Dec 24, 2017 at 2:16am UTC Instagram post by Robbie Krumm • Dec 25, 2017 at 12:03am UTC

2000 ford explorer ohv push rod. Hasn't really been running right to begin with. Could barely make it up to 55 mph Replaced plugs(drivers side engine bank. Spark plug gaps where over .1 inches) Replaced wires Crossed a wire(caught the cat on fire) Got the wires set correctly Welded a piece of exhaust back on(battery removed) Replaced fuel filter Where I'm at now. Starts like a new car. Engine revs smoothly through rpm range. Put the vehicle in either reverse or drive. The vehicle does move under it's own power on flat level ground. Any engine load and the engine starts stumbling ultimately stalling the engine. Thoughts?

Just thought I would share my explorer miss Fortune's First of all when I got the 96 4wd I have now in 2007 after I sold my 97 2wd because it did well for 2wd off road but wasn't cutting it I wanted 4wd in a bad way within the first year I got the egr code but at the time I didn't know that it was most likely just a failed dpfe sensor so my mom (I was a senior in high school at the time) drove it up to the Ford dealer my step dad worked at while I was in class to have it fixed we'll just so happens a radiator hose failed along the way and she kept driving it until the engine seized ....at least she was able to coast it into the dealer lot ...... The diagnosis after she told the mechanic what happened they did a compression test...

18588955_1499180950133824_6375877295468203651_o by Alan519 posted June 17, 2017 at 11:37 PM So, mirrors.....gotta use mirrors because sometimes reverse sensors don't work so good.....

Factory dust shields have single cooling vent holes that are located next to the tie rod ends. First pic shows brand new Moog ES3667 outer tie rods with square shaped "grease relief" valves on the bottom. Moog pre installed the dust boots with no regard to valve position. Second pic shows grease contacting the inner rotor with less than 1/4" clearance. Besides rupturing, this is another reason dust boots should never be overfilled. As with lower and upper ball joints, position the valves facing inboard towards the engine.

I warned him when he got stuck that I was going to post this here, lol... So I told him he probably wouldn't make it through, this stuff was deep and very stoppable... But since I was there to pull him out he decided to try it(good for him) lol... well yeah, he got stuck, plowed some mud and got pulled out. All in all a good time for everyone... Except maybe my Ex who had to work a little hard.... ;) SO I had to pull him out...

After almost 30 years of off-roading I had my first whoops. This happened on 2N17X on January 1st. after tipping my Explorer on it's side I had three guys stand on the rocker bars and I backed it up and back on all fours. I then ran the hill again and made it all the way up but I was the only one who did so we turned around and headed back down.

I was pulling Desert Broom out of the yard this last week and after much success I had a little failure. For those of you that don't know, Desert Broom is a bush/weed thing that grows in the southwest and if you just cut it down it will come back again and again and each time the roots seems to be longer and longer... I got 3 large desert brooms up and the 4th one was in an odd spot so I had the front wheels turned. The truck squatted, started to pull the Desert Broom up and then bam.... Dana 35 carnage by maniak_az, on Flickr Luckily I've done the c-clip eliminator on the front axle so I had it changed in less than an hour to one of the spares I have in the shed. I'm surprised that it was the center u-joint on the long side...