"Dora" the explorer

[dora4x4explorer]

I got my hands on a totalled low mileage explorer and i turned it into this, i hope you like it


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW9cpQMjawM

 

[dora4x4explorer]

 

[iteotwawki]

I saw the video. Good job resurrecting Dora.

 

[RMillerAK]

That's an awesome transformation.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Welcome to this forum! Did the lower frame have damage? How many hours did it take to fix? You did a nice job on it.

 

[dora4x4explorer]

Welcome to this forum! Did the lower frame have damage? How many hours did it take to fix? You did a nice job on it.

Thank you for the welcome! Surprisingly there was no lower frame damage, it took more hours than i can count to do all the work. Since i only worked on it during the warm seasons and ive slowly been adding things its taken about two years to get it where its at right now. To get it to be driveable again took about two months. The hardest part was by far pulling and straightening the front end to get the hood to fit.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Did you have a body shop use a computerized frame straightener or did you use manual hydraulic pistons?

 

[dora4x4explorer]

We used a floor anchored frame pulling machine

 

[BrooklynBay]

That sounds interesting. Is it computerized or manually controlled? Do you have a picture of it? Maybe you could make a how to thread in the body shop section of this site on how to set one of those machines up.

 

[dora4x4explorer]

This is what it looks like

You hook it up to an air hose, and step on the petal to pull it. The puller attaches to the car via many different attachments like hooks, clamps, or welded plates. The car needs to be anchored to the ground as well as the puller.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Do you need 4 of these (one near each corner of the vehicle)?

 

[DoraThe_Explorer]

Great project so far!

Also, I like your name choice

 

[dora4x4explorer]

Nope you just need one