Xeek's '91

my white 1991 explorer xlt 4wd. bought it 3/19/2010. first vehicle ive ever owned.


3.19.2010 - starting out

need to fix these

things ive done:

5.1.2010
new rearview

new cupholder

5.4.2010
new fogs

5.7.2010
new grill

5.8.2010
painted headlightdoors black

the starter also went out on me. truck is down for now



5.10.2010
out starter out. thanks jd

new starter

installed

5.13.2010
painted grille black

5.14.2010
brush guard/bull bar, also removed the valance. makes it look higher without it

5.17.2010
best addition ever, explorerforum plate frames and a sticker

5.18.2010

6.4.2010
clear turns/corners and amber bulbs

6.17.2010
replaced drivers door handle

6.22.2010
replaced engine coolant temperature sensor (cel)
replaced temperature sending unit so my guage works now (need it in this heat)



6.24.2010
new KKM intake

8.19.2010
train horns and flowmaster 50 suv kit(sounds a little to low but i still like it)

exhaust

train horns

^left compresser - right air valve

sound clip. does no justice, much better in person
http://s141.photobucket.com/albums/r44/xeeky/?action=view&current=DSCN1434.mp4



10.11.2010
cherrybomb glasspack 18"

11.07.2010
loud rattle i was hearing? heat sheild on top of the 2nd cat came off and wedged itself from falling.

also took the glasspack off, no muffler. pipe stops right before it would be at
http://s141.photobucket.com/albums/r44/xeeky/?action=view&current=nomuffler.mp4



11.14.2010
gave myself an oil change. mobil 1 synthetic, k&n filter



11.22.2010-11.23.2010
ive always had a bogging/no get up and go on a cold start. so i went ahead and tried this: http://ford40.com/sputtering.shtml

left it to soak all night, dried today. there was some dirt/dust on the filaments. put it back in today along with a new maf from a cobra.
not only was there no more bogging when cold, i didnt have the slow response/bog related to having my battery unplugged and it relearning itself either.

i reccomend doing this if you have probs and notice the maf filaments are dirty.

the new maf sensor:

and the painted area behine the grille:

i will be painting the grille, bull bar, front bumper, rear bumper all with bedliner.
and at some point paint along the sides of the truck following the top of the bumper line in bed liner



11.24.2010-11.28.2010
bed lined front bumper, rear bumper+rear sides, grill, and re-added wal-mart lights.
took off the hitch that was attached the the bumper also.

12.20.2010

01.22.11 - clearance lights. LED, 13 per light, 65 total. very bright.

3.27.2011
so after 3 months of the engine overhaul, its finally back in, finished, and fired up at 11.47pm! after fixing the inertia switch(oddly popped out), it fired right up, no problems!
link to build thread: http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=302553

video of its first start up




4.20.2011
2nd aux tranny cooler

pcv filter.

5.30.2011
'99 8.8, aussie, 3.73, soa

9.4.11
non ac box conversion

9.22.11
4" rough county lift and swap to 3.73 gears

10.1.11
f150 tow hook

10.9.11
15x8 creager soft 8s put on my 32x11.5 bfgs

10.16.11
class V tow hitch

12.31.11
drivers window motor damage. so nice to have a working window

1.7.12
f150 seats to bring it to 5.5" lift
project #1 completed.

4" + f150 seats + fa400 arm + unsettled suspension = this angle.

1.7.12

1.14.12

 

[Benjam]

Xeek,

I've got a bad lifter in that same cylinder, but the intake side of things .

question for ya, did you reuse those perma dry valve cover gaskets I'm spyin? I opened mine up to see where my ticking is and just closed it back up with those gaskets to drive it for a bit yet. Wondering if I need to get them again when i open er back up..

Benjam

 

[Xeek]

Yea I reused em. Just added another dab of rtv on the corners and a dab on one of the bolts cause the intake hole is stripped slightly.
I wanna say back when I changed the pushrods 5000miles ago I reused the same gaskets back then.. didn have any leaks since then. Havebt driven it enough to see if it leaks now or not

 

[Benjam]

they didnt melt to the heads at all? I thought that was a selling point of theirs. lol

anyways, truck is looking good. what ever happened to your incident with the possible hydrolocking you had a few weeks ago?

 

[Xeek]

They have built in rtv I think. But no they ddnt fuse to my heads. Came off easy.

Not sure what happened. I think I bent #2 exhaust valve. When the valve is shut I had looseness if the rocker. When open it was tight. Don't think th lifters at fault. No idea what cylinder #6 issue is, don't want to take that side apart.
Alternator bearing was bad and made noise. But I still think somethings up with the crank bearings from noises I hear. Pluswater got in there so makes sense.

But it runs

 

[Benjam]

But it runs

Exactly.

Mine ticks damn near loud as a diesel, and leaks pretty good, but it runs

 

[Xeek]

Mine aren't as loud as my diesel, I'm just nervous about thw valve and whatever the other noise is

 

[DUNE RCR]

Hey where do you go to get most of your parts?

 

[Xeek]

had another run in with a tree.....

 

[BigJoe1094]

Ouch. I'll be the first to ask. Howd you manage that one

 

[Xeek]

tried to go to the left of said tree, out of the deep mud/water. slid into a rut(to the right) turned fully to the left and bounced out the the rut and the truck spun, all while bouncing off 5grand in 2nd gear and landed dead square in the middle of a tree. fit perfectly between the frame rails.
funny thing is i thought id get stuck in that hole, i backup up into it and got out after i hit the tree. the hole was as deep as my rear bumper.

lost my drivers hood pin, had to weld it back in. poked a hole in the rad cause the core support caved in, lost my drivers parking light(cracked), bent the drivers tie rod, snout on the water pump was carving a hole in the plastic covering the efan motor.
dodge 3500 and a tow strap pulled the frontend back out. sledge hammer used for touch ups

 

[BigJoe1094]

ouch kinda figured it was something like that. hope u get everything straightened out ok

 

[Xeek]

so the bent tie rod gave me horrible toe in and made the truck sway A LOT as the suspension moved.
replaced the bugger. bent it right at the end into a straight line lol

edit: much better now. did a quick alignment, almost dead on by eyeball. and sterring wheel stays straight now and no more swaying(besides swaybar sway), yay!

 

[Sip]

I would just do a fake cover in the front,not the arms.ps nice pic

nice diff cover wish I can do mine, but what kind of paint did u use? and did u paint ur calipers?

 

[Xeek]

rustolium bedliner in a can and primer. calipers ive only painted the rear ones and i used leftover 2000f white engine paint for em

 

[Xeek]

damn!!!

the other one on the drivers side is loose. both sides still have the two bolts hidden on the inside that are tight, but stillllll, not good!!!!

 

[Turdle]

Good times.
When we returned from Colorado in our 93 I found it had thrown away 3 of the engine crossmember bolts --- I guess those need some loc tite eh?

 

[Xeek]

damn. the lift bracket ones pre-sas? or you mean the ones holding the crossmember to the frame? either way, damn lol.

 

[Xeek]

so um, i had my passenger fender off for a snorkel addition, im thinking airflow got caught underneath the hood and caused this:

on the interstate going to work doing 65mph, hood tries to lift up with so much force the cotter pins on my hood pins failed and my hood flew up and smacked my windshield. i kept myself calm, said wtf and pulled over(having no doors helps being able to see what lane youre in). took out bungee cords and stuck em through the holes for the hood pins and a sledgehammer to bang the hood down and put the other end of the bungees in the frame. then got off the interstate and drove home slowly.
my roof is bent in in the middle also

 

[ruff19]

dam buddy , u having some bad luck there ,sheared those bolts right out or did they come loose?

 

[Xeek]

i have no idea. they were just gone. the one that was left was loose. and the two underneath(not the visible ones) were loose.

monday my upper radiator hose blew off and i lost 1.5g of coolant. stopped at a random house and a 70yd old drunk black lady kept touching all on me while me and her son filled me back up with water lolol -_-