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Yeah, 5 buddies and I hit the local mud hole yesterday after church. Here's a list of vehicles and drivers: 1. Me in my 92 2-door explorer with 2" lift, 31 A/T's. 2. Eric in his 96 bone stock 4-door jeep XJ with "neon" tires as he calls them. 3. Joey in his 96 4-door XJ with 3.5" lift...

Yeah the title says it all. 1992 5-spd 4x4 sport. 117,000 miles Runs excellent once I get past 1400. It has a homemade high-flow intake (completely leak proof) and flow master exhaust with high flow cat connected to the y-pipe by a reducer made by me (also leak proof). It's got a somewhat...

Yeah the title says it all. 1992 5-spd 4x4 sport. 117,000 miles Runs excellent once I get past 1400. It has a homemade high-flow intake (completely leak proof) and flow master exhaust with high flow cat connected to the y-pipe by a reducer made by me (also leak proof). It's got a somewhat...

So the other day I jump in my x to head to town and all of a sudden the transmission was grinding every time I downshifted from 5th to 4th. It would grind as I was going into 4th. Every other shift, including 3-4, 4-3, 4-5, and 5-3, is smooth as silk and the transmission makes no unusual noises...

Finally got a flowmaster! Well, it's finally getting done. I found a guy in nearby town who does custom exhaust work on the side. I took my X over to him last night and he quoted me $282 for dual outlet and $135 for single outlet. I know $282 is an awesome price to have a dual outlet flowmaster...

OK so here it is. I used about 6" of 3" PVC pipe and 1 90* rubber clamp on elbow and 1 rubber clamp on coupler. Total cost was $12 for the fittings. I found the pipe on a job site. There was actually a good bit of work involved. I had to rotate the windshield washer fluid and antifreeze...

Hey guys, I was just thinking about a missions trip I took with my church youth group a few years back to Romania. We worked in a christain camp up in the mountains southeast of Oradia. Anyways, the only way to camp was a dirt road full of 8" deep pot holes. They had an Nissan SUV called a...

Well, I was getting bored here and starting thinking about why I haven't ever heard of someone using an E4OD auto transmission when doing a 5.0 swap into an explorer/ranger. I did lots of searching around and the only thing I could place I could find "E4OD" was in a thread discussing full-size...

Over spring break my brother and I finally got to build a new front bumper for his 1992 Dodge Dakota. The tubing is actually 1-1/2 inch (ID) galvinized sch. 40 pipe :p The brackets in between the two pipes are 1-3/4 by 3/8 inch flat steel. Here's a pipe in the bender... The actual...

Right now my brother and I have a lincoln 180 amp stick welder that we got from a yard auction for $40. We've been using it alot and I made my front bumper with it. I've heard that you can't weld aluminum with a stick welder though. Is that true, and if so, why? We're thinking about buying a...

I'm thinking about building a basket rack for my X but I want to know how badly it's going to affect gas milage. If you have a basket rack on your X post how it affected your milage. Thanks

I went to Menards today to buy some 1x4s for a shelf I'm building in my dorm room. So I buy the boards, drive into the yard and pick out the ones I want, drive back to gate and this is where things go wrong. They were 10' boards, so the only way they fit in my 2-door explorer is by setting one...

Hey all, I just thought I'd share this with you all. I recently bought a pair of fog/driving lights from www.eautochamps.com and I was super impressed. I originally found the guy selling on ebay and then found his web page/store. For $35 I figured it couldn't hurt to try a pair. Let me tell you...

I am putting the F-150 spacer/ add-a-leaf lift on the X soon and I will be getting new tires next summer. I was looking at procomp ATs and noticed that the 32s only stand 31.3" tall, while the BFG 31s stand 30.7" tall. Since the BFG 31s will generally fit without a lift, I was wondering how hard...

Well, It snowing like crazy here and I was just sitting in my dorm watching the simpsons when someone knocks on my door. I open it to find a girl from my broomball team. I help drive the team to games and practices, so everyone on the team has at least seen, if not ridden in my X. First she...

OK, so now that its -20 (Yeah! :thumbsup: :D I love cold weather :D ) here in MN, my X's speedometer reads about 1 gear fast until it warms up. What I mean by "one gear fast" is this: Normally: it is going 30 MPH at 2500 RPMs in 2nd gear. In the cold: it is going "30 MPH" at 2500 RPMs...

Well, I made the front bumper and now I'm hooked! Here's a pic of what I want to do with the rear: It may be a little out of scale but you get the idea. It will be 1/4" x 8" steel on the back, 1/4" x 6" on top, 1/4" x 3" on the bottom. 3/8" on the ends where the tube gets welded on...

Well, after some searching on this board, I've decided that I want a flowmaster 50 with dual pipes straight out the back. It seems that to get this I have to have it custom made at an exhaust shop. From the search I did It looked like people were paying anywhere from $200-$400 for parts and...

Well, my X has been running like crap. After driving home from school on wed. night I noticed that when I revved the engine, the exhaust system would make kind of a plugged popping noise that increased in frequency as the RPMs climbed. I figured that my factory cat had finallly bit the dust...

Well, I've been planning this thing for a long time. I finally got to build it over thanksgiving break. I got some plate steel and made the brackets out of it here at school. The only problem was that I needed to drill 2-3/8" holes in it and biggest bit they had was a 3/4". But being a cheap...

Well, I have to drive my 92 sport 350 miles back to school tomorrow and it has this awful hesitation and power loss problem. Nothing I try will make it go away. I can't stand having to drive it like this. Any helpful ideas would be appreciated. Heres a list of what I've done so far: 1)...

Ok I did a search and found that the d-35 TTB and d-35 IFS are different. They have different carriers and take different lockers. But do they have the same ring and pinion? If everything else is different, and they don't even take the same ring and pinion, how can they both be called d-35s...

Here's a question for all you who have done a suspension lift on a first generation explorer: What kind of wrench do you use to get the front coils unbolted from the axle beam? I'm going to be putting f-150 spacers on there this weekend so I need to know by tomorrow (11-24-2004). There ain't...

Well guys I've decided that next summer I'm going to swap out the 3.27s for 4.10s. Anyways, I can't see spending $700 to have my current 8.8 regeared when I can get a '98-'01 8.8 w/ factory 4.10 and disc brakes for $200 from the junk yard. I have two questions about this swap: A) What do I...

I am trying to attatch a picture here using my folder on my schools network as the hosting site for the picture. If it works, you'll see a pic of my explorer, if it doesn't work, then this will just be a stupic post. So here goes: