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I was able to get the cummins radiator and intercooler to fit, although it will take some modifications later to make a front end that works. I'm excited because this is super overkill on cooling with the stock mechanical fan and large radiator, but also it means I get to keep the MASSIVE...

Oh man, it's been a long time since an update. I absolutely haven't stopped working on it. No pictures since my elite explorer ran out, but let me talk through some stuff that's happened. If you want visuals you can check my youtube channel, otherwise here's the long list of what's been...

continued After this I bought a sheet of 4'x8' 10 gauge steel from my local steel yard for ~$200. 10 gauge is about .14" thick which is between 1/8 and 3/16 and is almost the same thickness as the stock frame (about .157 IIRC, smaller then 3/16). I cut up some plates and boxed this middle...

It's been a minute for an update. I've gotten the engine mounts done, transmission mount done, and the frame cleaned up and boxed. Here's some pictures. I ended up putting the body back on for test fitting before I did the drivetrain mounts. Here's a picture of the massaging the firewall. I...

Anyone have any opinions on an unequal body lift? Because the rear is now spring over axle (SOA) it's pretty high, but I do need about an inch of body lift in the front to clear the transmission. I'm not sure I want to raise the rear any more then it already is. My thought was I could add some...

Hmm.. I'm not sure, which picture or video are you looking at? Everythings stock on the inside of the explorer (so far) in that regard. You might be looking at the stock radio which is real oldschool looking and has about 15 buttons just on that haha.

Another update. I needed swap the nv4500 transmissions input shaft from a 1 1/8" shaft to a 1 1/4" shaft in order for it to bolt up to the cummins. Started by removing the top (note can technically do this without pulling the top but I wanted to take a look inside). Synchronizer teeth looked...

It's been a hot minute since an update, so here we go! Sometimes fabrication just takes a lot longer then you expect it to... but... my explorer now has a dana 50 under the front end! At least, mostly. So as a recap I grabbed an 8 lug TTB dana 50 out of an F250 in a junkyard. The first issue to...

Hmm.. I'm not sure what exactly what you mean. From the front of the car to the back it should be just as stable, and since I'm using two arms each with heims rather then 1 arm with heims the beam should be just as stable from rotating (If there were only 1 pinned connection you'd be correct...

Also, since you mentioned keeping factory alignment specs I should point out that was another consideration with the parallelogram style, if I use a righthand thread heim on one side and a lefthand on the other I get the ability to adjust the position of the TTB beams forward and back a couple...

Thanks for the input. The only reason I'm worrying so much about the radius arms is since I will need custom radius arms anyways to fit the dana 50 beams (not as tall as the dana 35) I figure I might as well improve the design if its simple enough to do so, especially since in this case I think...

Question for anyone that is familiar with TTB design, or radius arm suspension design in general. On the stock radius arms the way it mounts to the axle is essentially a hard mount. Every aftermarket setup I've seen thus far it is this way as well. However the problem that I would think this...

Quick update, and a question for anyone that has some suspension design experience. I was able to get the new input shaft for the transfer case so I can fit it to my transmission. The only issue was that there's a bearing INSIDE the input shaft and the new shaft had too small a diameter for...

No worries at all! You're not the only person to suggest it so I just thought it'd be worth reiterating there. Both in the youtube comments and on 4btswaps people were saying to do this, and its a good suggestion!

So I spent all weekend crawling through junkyards with no luck until I ultimately ended up finding a transfer case on craigslist (no bellhousing yet though). Only caveat was I had to pull it myself. The truck I was pulling it out of must've been a farm truck because it was covered in mud and...

That's a SUPER cool build! Thanks for sharing. I do think it makes my point though about it being more truck then explorer though lol.

Since a couple people are asking I may as well answer now haha. I think it would be possible how you're saying with just modifying the hood and firewall, in fact that's how 12valvepower did it in his 2nd gen I believe. However the reason I'm messing around with the front of the car is for a few...

SAS would be easier, but I prefer TTB. I'm not 100% set on it, but I am like 80% lol. I haven't found a hugely compelling reason NOT to do TTB yet so at this point that's the direction I'm looking. I don't do much rock crawling, don't want 40's, and I'd rather lean into the black magic of...

Oh I almost forgot, the radius arms between the dana 35 and dana 44 are almost the same length, only difference really is where the shock mounts it looks like. Not too worried about making the radius arms work. The dana 50 obviously doesn't have radius arms since it is leafsprung from the...

I got back from the junkyard today with pictures of different TTB setups, but still no transfer case :banghead:. I thought I'd post what I found in case anyone had any input since there's been some front end talk. I measured the drivers side beam, passenger side beam, and overall width between...

Well thank you haha. I was thinking that when he mentioned the kit but didn't want to say anything, the link is useful information because it shows me what I'd need to make it work, but you are correct I would make it myself I wouldn't buy the kit. Still glad for the link though!

Ooh, good info! I've looked into it a bit more and it looks like dana 50 stuff might be a little narrower on one side then dana 44 (or is that just on vans? TTB info is hard to find!). I should be going to a upull today or monday for drivetrain parts so I'll bring a measuring tape and find some...

Exactly! That was one of the biggest reasons I wanted to go with the 6bt over something else, it makes as much power and torque as I'd ever need basically stock and all the other stock drivetrain components should be able to handle it as well (transmission, transfer case, etc). I'm actually...

Also small technical note if anyone can help me out, on each of my posts there's some pictures dangling at the bottom that I didn't mean to put there (should have just been in line with the text). I've tried editing the post and deleting them but they just come back. Anyone know why there's...

Update (continued) After getting the frame out I was able to set the body down on a couple small carts, and I can pickup the rear with the cherry picker in order to roll it around (you can see the trans sitting on the ground in this pic, had to steal its cart for the body so now it'll be a...