5.0L V8 Swap into 99 Explorer Sport

[00MTEDDIE]

Haha 410, I have had this mounty for over a year, and the mountaineer headlights you see on my X are from the donor. I also have since repaired the bumper cover, painted it, and sold it to a fellow MN Explorer owner. I have very few parts left.

I can't wait to see how it runs with the 5.0. I am working on cleaning up the engine bay, changing out the wiring, undercoating trans tunnel, and switching out throttle and trans cables now, so the V8 can go in on Tuesday hopefully.

I give you major props!!!!Very nice! I have some questions about the mounty front face swap. What did this involve in parts besides the obvious? how hard was it to swap out the header panel? I am very interested in doing this but i need some help. Any links and advice would be very helpful.

Thanks.

 

[Rheun]

Liking this thread....

 

[fordfink87]

Hey Eric! been following this tread awhile.. lost my 5.0 98 Merc mountaineer (removed the front driveshafts and drifted it to death), then lost my 91 ohv Ex sport (turbo'd then sold after burning up the clutch... driftin it), so i stopped lookin. but my obsession with explorer has led me to the 99 ohc Ex sport i own now. it has 190K miles so beefin up the 4.0 really doesnt seem logical, not when what i really want is a boosted 5.0 under the hood! you've broken all the ground on this swap and im sure with the help of a couple shops in town im associated with, i can bring this thing to life.. but im really bummed out you never completed that write up dude.. that would have been a game changer. did you ever make that web page for it?

 

[vroomzoomboom]

2nd gen 5L swap thread

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=422796

 

[Anticitizen1]

I have a question about the Mountaineer front end conversion, I swapped over to the newer front end and had no issue except for the flasher of the Explorer is of course incorrect and the lights are blinking far too fast. I grabbed the correct flasher from the mountaineer when I took the front clip, but it doesn't fit my relay housing, the pinouts are different. I'm assuming splicing needs to happen, does anyone have a diagram or notes for this procedure? If not I'll dig out my factory shop manuals and figure it out, just figured I'd ask. Thanks guys!

 

[CDW6212R]

Eric did solve that problem, a bunch of years ago.

I know he posted the details, but I don't recall if it was in here, or the other Explorer forum(hunt Explorer XP8's). I will need to know how that was done also, I'm going to make my Black Coal look like my red Mounty.

 

[mic98xlt]

I did the conversion Mountaineer conversion years ago on my '98 Ex. All I recall right now was changing the flasher itself under the steering wheel to a junkyard mountaineer flasher. There was no rewiring of the connector for the flasher, but somehow it required the change out from the standard Explorer flasher to the Mountaineer standard flasher. Also the original OEM flasher were different colors, but fitted both connectors the same. I hope this helps.

 

[99SportX]

I encountered the pinout difference when I converted another one of my explorers. I don't remember it happening with this one. I solved it by just buying a generic flasher relay from a parts store. Using an OEM mountaineer flasher relay didn't work in that case.

 

[Anticitizen1]

I appreciate the help guys! I ended up just following suit to Eric and bought myself an aftermarket flasher and that worked out just fine. I ended up leaving the 2 extra sockets on my harness and just taping them back, in the event that I want or need to swap back to the original front clip. One additional question, I need to aim my passenger side headlamp slightly lower and they don't appear to have the adjustment rod on them for aiming and I can't glean any information on the forum search function. Are 1998-2001 Mounty headlights non-adjustable, or am I missing something? I'll look in my shop manuals later as well, thanks everyone.