Foxracin's 1991 Exploder

[Foxracin]

Got the rcvs in. Just waiting on the drive flanges and ill have 4wd back.

Found this when I took the also broke **** out. Never seen one break like that. lol

Only had to bore out the last 3/4inch of the spindles .010 to get clearance around where the splines on the stub shaft are. Just used a die grinder.

Got some Longfield spindles bushings to get rid of the gay spindle bearings.

Ground bottom ball joint flush with nut.

My sweet dust boots until I get the drive flanges.

 

[Foxracin]

Wondered if what was possible?

 

[Xeek]

looks like a fishing bobber! lol!

 

[Foxracin]

Its a plunger actually.

 

[Xeek]

wow.... lololol
i just said that cause the color/shape. but a toilet plunger? even better! thats awesome

 

[Slowlyvverot]

cool. I'm looking forward to see what will break now that you upgraded those parts. any plans for the driveshafts?

 

[Foxracin]

Got the drive flanges today.

Bought a $1200 set of axles and got a free beanie and ordered a $200 set of drive flanges and got a free hat AND a free little lunch bag thing. lol Thought that was kind of funny.

Planning to go to Harlan, KY next weekend and do some wheeling. Cant wait.

 

[Foxracin]

any plans for the driveshafts?

Not at the momment. The reason the other one broke was cause it landed on it when that rock kicked out. If its a problem in the future with shafts breaking for other reasons then I will look into getting a thick wall set made. But we will see.

 

[TexasArmadillo]

Planning to go to Harlan, KY next weekend and do some wheeling. Cant wait.

Sweet. I love Justified. Your new edition looks nice.

 

[jaschlum]

Any updates Trevor?

 

[Foxracin]

Well Harlan was badass. Definitely cant wait to go back.

Day before were supposed to leave the Explorer starts f'ing up. Went to go get lunch that day at work and it would just click when you try to start it. Dern oh well. When I left to go home started fine. Got home and started messing with it and it would spin over and slowly die like the batter was weak. Went and had it replaced and same thing.

Then got to messing with it some more and if it was cold it would start fine. Soon as it warm up a little it would just quit and click.

Took the starter off and put another one I had on it and same thing. Though maybe they were both screwed up so I took one and got it tested and it tested fine. So came home and made a new cable from the battery to the starter and same thing yet again.

So as a last ditch effort went and bought a brand new starter and what do you know. Same thing yet again. Spin over good cold and soon as it warms up it would quit.

Last thing I could think of was ground cable and sure enough that was it. Ground cable from block to frame was almost corroded in 2. Made up a temporary one real fast and spins over likes it never spun over before. lol Finally got it right around 12am thursday night and we were leaving 5am friday morning so loaded everything up and got ready to go.

Didnt get many pics but got a couple vids. Was having a blast riding the trails. They have tons of trails. We rode like 80 miles and only rode the trails leading to and from camp more then once.

Only carnage from the weekend was a cut tire and burnt a hole in the air locker line. Thats probably my best weekend yet and I beat on it pretty good trying out the new from axles.

The axles are niiiiice by the way. Turn it to full lock and just let it eat and there as smooth as butter.

Couple pics:

Vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGr165lTpI8

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG0crMpsWzw

Cant wait to go back and ride the trails again. It was well worth the ride.

Oh yea. On my way home from work monday I hit the brakes and head and big clunk and was like uh oh. Got out and somehow this happened. Dont know if a rock hit it from wheeling or what but it broke clean off. Atleast I know the welds were good. lol

 

[Slowlyvverot]

Damn you really did beat on it. Some of those parts in the Rail Bed video, if you hadnt had those RCVs you woulda been snapping some universals.

 

[Foxracin]

Same thing we were saying. Beat on it a lot harder then mountain city.

Should have seen me beating on it trying to come out of the hill on rail bed the day before after it just got done raining and nobody had done it yet so it was slick as hell. 3rd gear on the floor. took about 15 mins to get out. Started over heating a little. But it came out. Wish I would have got it on video. It would have been pretty good.

 

[LBarr2002]

I've only been to Harlan twice, once wet and broke on lower rock garden first day, second time was in 2ft of snow.

I can't wait to get up there when I can actually wheel. Hoping to go to Grand Slam this summer.

edit:
Just watched the videos. Dude, that thing works great. Last time I was up there two wrangler buggies on 40's had more trouble through the rock garden than you did.

 

[cmhaah06]

I'm assuming u were in double low in all those videos. Looks like the rig crawls well, with a lot more control.

 

[Foxracin]

I've only been to Harlan twice, once wet and broke on lower rock garden first day, second time was in 2ft of snow.

I can't wait to get up there when I can actually wheel. Hoping to go to Grand Slam this summer.

edit:
Just watched the videos. Dude, that thing works great. Last time I was up there two wrangler buggies on 40's had more trouble through the rock garden than you did.

Yea, works pretty good I think. Cant wait to get a cage in it and some better tires and really start seeing what it will do. Should walk everything at ure now.

I'm assuming u were in double low in all those videos. Looks like the rig crawls well, with a lot more control.

Yup, a lot more control I love the doubler.

 

[Foxracin]

Just for reference here is a Heep on the rock garden. About 1:10 in the vid is the ledge I crawled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgg81F719A

 

[rickybobby]

thats one hell of a rig, i wish i had the funding to build mine half that well

 

[Foxracin]

It's still pretty much a budget build compared to other builds out there. The way it sits now I may have around 5500 in it including buying it. Just got to look for deals and know where and how to spend your money.

 

[Foxracin]

Went and picked up some 2x2 and 2x4 steel tubing for the rock sliders yesterday. Also got some new caliper brackets from the local speed shop. There about twice as thick as the old one so hopefully they will hold up.

Started cutting out the rocker panels today. To get ready for the sliders. Cut a little over a inch out of the bottom of the doors and all of the rocker panels. About 4.5 inches total.

Rust in the normal spot.

Drivers side done.

Passenger side full of mud. lol

Starting to rust out.

Passenger side finished

Scrap

Going to try to get the frame cleaned up and painted and the sliders made up and welded on this week or next weekend.