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Captain Morgan, '95 D44 Sas

“Captain Morgan”
1995 Explorer Sport


Engine:
4.0 OHV

Transmission:
M5oD manual transmission

Cooling:
Summit Racing aluminum 2.5” radiator, driver drop outlet
Summit Racing aluminum power steering cooler
Summit Racing flex hose & 90* elbow

Drivetrain:
Manual 1354 Borg Warner
Steel Tube front driveshaft
Extended, reinforced rear driveshaft

Front Axle:
‘84 Jeep Grand Wagoneer Widetrac Dana 44 low pinion
OX locker & Cover
5.13 Yukon Ring & Pinion
All Spicer U-joints, bearings & races
Kevlar braided stainless 32” long brakelines
Stock Waggy shafts (until I break one!)
Warn manual locking hubs

Rear Axle:
Explorer 8.8 31 spline
Dutchman hardened shafts, 6x5.5 pattern, screw-in studs
Aussie Locker
5.13 Yukon Ring & Pinion
Currie 6x5.5 rotors
All Ford bearings & races
Trailmaster 2” tapered rear lift blocks
Superlift spring-over perches
RuffStuff 1/4" steel 8.8 metal cover

Suspension:
Explorer ProComp MX6 nitro front shocks
Regular Monroe stock height (go figure!) rear shocks
JC Whitney stock Waggy 7 leaf front packs
Rear leaf packs out of XLT v8 w/ tow package

Tires:
35x13.5r16 Mickey Baja Claws
37x12.5r15 Goodyear Wrangler Mtr's Couldn't flex. Gone
36x12.5r15 Super Swamper TSL Bias Ply Best for mud! Gone
315x70r17 Mickey Baja MTZ radials Original setup. Gone


Rims:
16x8 Black painted aluminum triangle holes
15x10 Black round-holed aluminum something or anothers Gone
17x10 Black steel Rock Crawler round holes Gone


Body Mods:
Originally Willow Green
Premium Sport flares
Maaco semi-gloss dark Charcoal paint. black vinyl racing stripes
Black herculiner on lower doors and rock sliders
Shaved 4" from each side of bumper for tire clearance
Removed roof rack and rails

Body Armor:
DraperBuilt rock sliders
Steel rear bumper w/ swing out carrier, from sn0border88's late Emily Rose (Had to remove tire carrier section in 2011,
the swing rod bent and the trailer bearings built into the bumper seized)

Sound System:
Pioneer DEH-X7800BHS head unit
4 6x8 Kenwood 3 way 220w speakers
Pair Kenwood 1" front door tweets w/ bass blockers (installed in panels by rearview mirror control)
Pair Pioneer 1" rear tweets w/ bass blockers (installed above flip out ashtrays)
10” Kicker VR Comp dual voice coil
Kenwood 729S Amplifier
Cobra 19 CB in center console, w/ external speaker (removed 2019, no one uses CB's for wheeling anymore)

Lights:
2 Hella 500's on front bumper
Dual driving fogs. White fog/blue smurf lights
Anamorphic Equalizer :p
LED strips around inside of rear hatch glass w/ dedicated rear switch
Billet Automotive custom RGB LED switch panel
Sylvania amber blue 3157 turn bulbs
Euro Diamond headlights & corners
OPT7 LED headlight bulb upgrade
Black Altezza tail lights w/ LED brake & reverse bulbs, amber blue turn signals

Miscellaneous modifications:
Doofy looking Skull knob for T-case shifter (thanks Rook :rolleyes: )
Fire Extinguisher & LED Maglite hard mounted to D-Pillars
Sport Trac rear power outlet installed in right rear panel behind rear seats
02-05 Explorer IRS breather tube neck for front axle breather tube
Shaved 8.8 Center pin
Shaved inside fin off of Dana 44 housing to clear OX shift fork
Royal Purple full synthetic Mercon III trans fluid
Interior light kill switch (95's interior lights do not turn off via dimmer)
Boxed & reinforced trans cross member to pass over front driveshaft
Custom front sway bar
2wd explorer radio bezel
‘95 F350 Front shock towers
Removed stock air filter fender duct
1.5" Steel front driverside leaf block (to make him sit level again)
Leather power seats and rear bench seat from Blackjack
2019: Installed Blackjack's passenger door & Skunk's driver door in tribute. He is now FrankenMorgan.




Started out looking like this:
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Did a little bit of this:
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And a little bit of that:
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To get this:
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Had some fun breaking him in:
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And then realized a little too late that I have a serious center of gravity issue:
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But clean it all up and throw some paint on and things will look a lot better :)
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...And then when your nice matte finish dark charcoal grey paint fades to powdered donut finish,
(Yes that's me, posing with my truck)
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......have your truck painted again!
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And put stripes on it, for Pete's sake ;)

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Over a decade later and still kicking despite everything we've been through:
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Full write up can be found here: How to waste a ton of $$. Much thanks to Rookie, Wolf, Micah, 95Exploderboy and IZwack for the design/build, and Skunk for the inspiration ;)


EDIT: Morgan wouldn't be the beast that he is today were it not for the two horribly abused first gens who came before him and taught me what it means to have a wheelable Explorer (lots of patience, time and money!). Here's to Shelby and Tank :chug: May they rest in pieces wherever they are!
 



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LMAO @ TDavis :p: I need one that says that...


Marsh, it says "I used to be F**cking Stupid- but then we broke up"

:D



Definitely not suitable for wear in public, I forgot I had it on on the way home and was wondering why people kept staring :rolleyes: And no, I didn't wear it around any children!
 



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%#@!!

I got distracted and forgot my hiking boots, bite me :mattmoon:
 












wow it looks like this sport can really hold its own on the trail...how steep was the one clime??? btw thats an insane pic
 






Hey Spas love the set up u have there with that OX in the front...lovely !!! hate to tell you that is to good of a set up to just pass it so i'm also putting something a lil' bit similar :D in my X....but i was wondering if u could let me know 3 things.... 1) is how did u ended up doing the steering cuz im still lost!! 2) did u go SOA in the rear?? and 3) wat size blocks did u put in the rear as well if any!! im trying to look for some technical info around in the search button but all i see is pics of how the did and not wat they used!! THANKS for the help
 












Well I had something odd and more than a little alarming happen to me a few days ago... On my way home from work, right around mountain #3, I got on the gas leaving a stop sign to merge with traffic and all of a sudden Morgan wouldn't go anywhere!

Anyone ever had this happen?
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Broke clean off at the firewall, snapped all three of the factory welded bolts on the gas pedal bracket! Since it happened in a bad stretch of highway for road repairs I taped a bungee cord to the throttle cable and pulled on it while trying to steer and shift with the other hand until I made it home. I ended up enlarging the firewall holes and drilling out the broken studs, then using grade 8 1/4" bolts and Nyloc nuts to fix it so it will never break again. Weird, huh?
 


















Atleast it wasn't the brake pedal like it did with kami.. Meh.. on a side note, I hope it warms up and quits raining.. Bonzai has an appointment with the paint sprayer.
 






thats not a toyota is it? oh wait... they get stuck down, not fall off...
 
























Love the paint job and the stripes give it a bad a## look.
 





















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I can't wait for mine to get done i'm starting out with the same rig and as for the gas pedel issue it happend to me i just threw a couple of self taping screws in it and its been like new since and i gained some power ha ha
 






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