2001 Ranger Edge Front to 2000 Explorer

[Blown]

im curious, will this hood work on stock explorer fenders? The contour and fitment? (disregarding headlight and grill assembly)

The curve of the hood is different than the fender, though someone posted a pic of a dome hood on a Sport Trac within this thread.

 

[Spudhut]

Thanks @Blown

 

[boominXplorer]

The ranger hood is not a bolt on to a sport trac or any explorer, it has to be completely modified.

 

[Spudhut]

I was hoping to swap out the headlights and grill assembly from a Ranger, including hood (if the curvature was the same...and possible ends of the fenders for turn signal lamps. I was hoping to cut the front section of the fenders and graft them to explorer fenders (i have done this to many classic car customs using) - like they did with the cars from the 50's swapping headlights and taillights.

 

[Blown]

She camps:

My son says it's an X-Edge and printed these for me.

 

[WormsExplorer]

That looks awesome.

 

[Blown]

The rig is got a little body work, good enough fo me, I spread a little mud over my stitch welds on the fenders:

She is getting new shoes today! 265/75 16 Falken Wildpeak under $600 installed with road hazard and balancing. I was going to go with Good Year Duratracs but found these for much less.

 

[Blown]

Old Tars:

New Tars:

 

[WormsExplorer]

Those look awesome!

 

[Blown]

I got some more time to play truck recently. I got the front bumper up higher and beefed-up the mounting brackets.

Before

After

 

[Blown]

I redid the bed and added a slide out tailgate/table/bar.
I am using two plactic tool boxes for support in front and the center sub woofer.

 

[Blown]

I posted this separately but want it in this thread. I relocated the tow hitch, lost the bumper and now have room for a full size spare under it (265/75-16).

 

[Blown]

The big picture and little detail, the Supercharger will go on one day and it will be charged!

 

[WormsExplorer]

Looking good sir

 

[CDW6212R]

I love it all, well done.

I've wanted to build a large roof rack similar to that size, going forward to about the sunroof middle. I need to get my sunroof hole filled first to do that, or start the rack at the back edge of the hole there. Good ideas, thanks.

 

[Blown]

Thanks guys!
The rack is actually 4 hitch mount racks. I extended the rack forward with junkyard rails/slides and the vinyl pieces that protect the roof There is two bolts in each rack down into the slides and I rivitted tie-downs to the roof. It is very secure. It's easier to handle 4 small racks when installing/uninstalling.
Everything fits in the rack. My bed is made when I leave the house, so we can get anywhere and sleep then set-up camp the next day. The ice chest, food box and cloths go in the front seats when we sleep. I take the racks off on longer camp trips and bolt them together to make a free standing shelf to hold camp boxes and gear. We glamp when we have the time. We take, a grill, gas fire, stove, table, chairs, easy-up, sunshower, etc. etc.........................

Last summer:

Camp Shelves

Ha, the printed "X Edge" and Lightning Bolt cover the old holes where the ranger emblem was.

 

[Blown]

Little update:
I installed a 2 row radiator which now is enough to cool this thing at extended stop lights this summer. It was getting very hot with the A/C on. It did not overheat but the A/C faded then went warm. I tested it and was not satisfied with the A/C performance so I added two 7" pusher fans in front at the bottom/front of the condenser/radiator. Both fan are rated too 1000CFM and she cools now! The A/C only fades slightly when stopped in drive. Yes I replaced the fan clutch, flushed the cooling system, and had reworked the A/C first.

This is the first step to get around to installing the supercharger. I will install two more cooling fans, 10" fans as pushers to cool the thing (longer snout on the supercharger means I remove the stock fan to fit the blower).

 

[410Fortune]

wicked cool I love the roof rack, The ranger edge front clip is the best looking from clip of all of our RBV = well done! I like outside the box thinking like your build here so = Well done!

 

[Blown]

Thanks man! It is rough and useable. I could do some better finishing on the fenders and if I had it to do over, I would have kept more of the stock fenders to blend it better.

 

[Blown]

I reworked the roof rack, sealed it and painted it. I mounted an old and thus long ski box to the rack.
I wanted to have the waterproof space for gear in addition to ski use.