Prerunner/weekend toy Explorer

danwaters · August 3, 2015

Sorry updates are so long overdue, work for me has been nuts over the last year. The truck sits on its own weight now. We're finishing up door bars, seat mounts and the rear bumper. Then the truck goes in to get the rear paneled up.

Yea mounty we chopped the frame off right at the front doors so a little more than say a ranger back half. The idea was to narrow the chassis to an advantage for shock mounts/location off the trailing arms and to widen the rear in order to accommodate a wider yet shallower fuel cell to keep it low for COG. My guy lengthened the wheelbase almost an additional 3 inches so it sits just over 119" WB

The arms were one off custom made and all tig welded by a friend of mine and is strapped at 19.5" of travel

danwaters · August 3, 2015

Heres a couple pics from a few weeks ago

new wheels and tires

housemonkeymedia · August 17, 2015

do you still have the leaf springs? im looking to buy some

danwaters · August 20, 2015

Not anymore, got rid of the 62's s while back

housemonkeymedia · August 22, 2015

can i come check this thing out sometime?

danwaters · August 24, 2015

It'll be out in the desert Halloween!

danwaters · August 24, 2015

It'll be out in glamis Halloween weekend!

danwaters · September 22, 2015

My updates have been slow due to life being so busy but im close. Plumb fuel cell mount seats relocate factory door locks and window controls and panel the rear.

ride height, 13 inches of bump left at ride height

droop, cycles 30.5 inches with shocks

Bump

turboexplorer · September 23, 2015

^^^^^^

housemonkeymedia · October 21, 2015

What have you done to the steering besides bigger tie rods and a different power steering pump?

danwaters · October 27, 2015

housemonkeymedia said:
What have you done to the steering besides bigger tie rods and a different power steering pump?

All heim pivots and elevated the rack via fabricated spacers, 3/8" to tune out as much bump steer as possible. In 20.5" of travel the front gets less than 1/2" of bump steer but after my guy installs my new hubs he'll be able to tune the KPI a little more precise to eliminate bump steer all together.

If you're asking about the rack itself...it's a factory rack with the -AN fittings tig welded on to eliminate o-ring failures due to the HP line exceeding 1600 psi due to hydro boost is all that has been done

housemonkeymedia · October 30, 2015

oh ok cool. Im building mine very similar to yours so ive been going through this post a lot to figure out what you have done. Wish i could make it out to glamis this weekend. Really want to check this thing out in person to take some notes while im building mine.

housemonkeymedia · November 2, 2015

drivers side front suspension

Was wondering if you could post some more pictures of the drivers side front suspension. im trying to figure out how to stuff my 12" coilovers up there. the master cylinder looks like its going to be right in the way so id like to know how you got around that. Right now im seeing my only option is to remove it and go with a different brake setup.

danwaters · November 8, 2015

Got a little more work done on the explorer. Chassis is almost done. Couple plates here and there to finish up these bump stop mounts. Got the seats mounted and the door bars tacked in and the trans dropped to go through it.

danwaters · November 8, 2015

housemonkeymedia said:
Was wondering if you could post some more pictures of the drivers side front suspension. im trying to figure out how to stuff my 12" coilovers up there. the master cylinder looks like its going to be right in the way so id like to know how you got around that. Right now im seeing my only option is to remove it and go with a different brake setup.

We ditched my factory booster and master and relocated a hydro boost set up behind my dash sideways on a rocker arm pictured here.

I have a 12" coil over and bypass stuffed in there pictured below

danwaters · November 8, 2015

Here's a pic showing from up top before it was even done

As you can see it's a tight fit

housemonkeymedia · November 10, 2015

wow so you had to change quite a bit. Thats a pretty expensive setup.. I'll have to figure out a different way to do it. i bought 12's thinking i could make it work but i think ill have to just get 10's cause they will fit in there with stock brakes. im getting the BTF kit which will give me 17" of travel with 10's. Having a hard time finding some used 10's.

danwaters · November 10, 2015

housemonkeymedia said:
wow so you had to change quite a bit. Thats a pretty expensive setup.. I'll have to figure out a different way to do it. i bought 12's thinking i could make it work but i think ill have to just get 10's cause they will fit in there with stock brakes. im getting the BTF kit which will give me 17" of travel with 10's. Having a hard time finding some used 10's.

It really wasn't that expensive but all the -AN fitting and stainless hose does add up pretty quick I guess. I cycle 20" with 12's

danwaters · November 16, 2015

Got into some paneling to close off the shocks/fuel cell from the ****pit area.

danwaters · November 25, 2015

Got the fuel cell strapped down and set the spare in there. Fits like a glove.

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