jmczzz
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- Joined
- November 10, 2018
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- City, State
- Western Grove, Arkansas
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 94 explorer sport
Retired old guy (76) bored, wife said get a hobby, so i got one. A 94 explorer (1st gen)
seems pretty standard except it has been lifted and has some big tires 33 12.50 r15s on it and the body main color has been sanded off and sprayed some with grey primer. It has a V6, auto trans, 4WD. it is pretty stock and in good shape on the interior. we live in very rural area of the south central Ozark mountians. We get snow and ice that stops traffic in winters. But now I am looking forward to ripping up and down the ice packed roads in my new toy. I drove it home yesterday 77 miles after purchasing it for 1 K. It ran good, and cruised 60 mph pretty easy up and down the Sourthern MO mountains on Hwy 65. I had to get it to down shift on some of the uphills to keep it on 60mph. And over 65 it has a front end feeling vibration that feels like an out of balanced tire/wheel?
I floored it a couple of times and held on, got up to 75 - 80 before the vibs scared me and I slowed down. So that vib needs attention. Second the oil pressure gauge didn't work. I checked oil etc before hitting the hwy and it was full of new looking oil. I watched the temp and she didn't get hot or make any distressful screams from bearings so I drove it on home. It has spots of rusted out areas on rear sections of the rocker panels on both sides poking thru the black plastic lower trim. Otherwise the body is nice except grey primer crappy paint job.
I will tackel things in this order; oil pressure gauge, rust spots and front end vibration.
Any suggestions on where to start looking for pressure guage failure or any thing else would be welcomed. Thanks and see you spinning up and down the hills! jmczzz
I floored it a couple of times and held on, got up to 75 - 80 before the vibs scared me and I slowed down. So that vib needs attention. Second the oil pressure gauge didn't work. I checked oil etc before hitting the hwy and it was full of new looking oil. I watched the temp and she didn't get hot or make any distressful screams from bearings so I drove it on home. It has spots of rusted out areas on rear sections of the rocker panels on both sides poking thru the black plastic lower trim. Otherwise the body is nice except grey primer crappy paint job.
I will tackel things in this order; oil pressure gauge, rust spots and front end vibration.
Any suggestions on where to start looking for pressure guage failure or any thing else would be welcomed. Thanks and see you spinning up and down the hills! jmczzz