New member from Fargo

[The Snowman]

Hi everyone,

I recently bought a '93 Explorer Sport for $1200 with 125,000 miles and very little rust. It does need a little work, but I love it, that's why I'm here. I used this site for info on replacing the water pump, thought I might as well sign up. My next job is to convert the auto hubs with manuals, right now the hubs are not working, then I need to fix the passenger window.

I plan on doing everything myself.

The front end is clunking, need to get to that too diagnosing that too.

Anyone here from the Fargo ND area?

Anyway, thanks in advanced for the help with questions I'm sure I'll have.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Welcome to this forum!

 

[DJRockit69]

Welcome to the forum and I'm in the Fargo area

 

[ZWilson07]

Welcome.

Not near Fargo though lol

 

[The Snowman]

I'm kind of new to mechanics, I've done light work most of my vehicles, but I've never done much with wheel bearing/axels/hubs. I had a buddy had attempted one of these repairs without the skill level and had a wheel come off his car at speed.

Hey DJRockit69, I'd give you a couple bucks if you watched over my shoulder while doing the auto-hub to manual hub conversion once it warms up outside. I get nervous working with those parts. I've read several of the threads on doing this in this site, but I don't want to screw anything up that can cause me to crash.

I took it in to a shop just to see what they would say, they were going to charge me about $700 to have the hubs changed over.

 

[DJRockit69]

Yea I would cool with that I'm going to start reading up on on Ur swap I have a 96 explorer, but I'm a quick study.

 

[DJRockit69]

I got that same quote just for wheel bearings on my explorer they said it was a 10 hour job total I laughed and got both sides done in an hour. If I remember correctly u are going to need a special tool for that let me do some looking to see if u do

 

[The Snowman]

Great, thanks. Yeah, I should do my bearing as well while I have everything a part. I believe I'll need a hub socket, it'll be a while before I can do any of this, I'm starting to collect parts now for the summer overhaul.

There's a few of the front end parts I want to start replacing now as preventive measures, I really like this vehicle and want to drive it as long as possible. My other car is a '09 Corolla, its quite boring to drive, the Explorer is the fun ride.

 

[DJRockit69]

I hear u there I got my 96 with a 5.0 and the 4406 swap and my 84 camaro then my 08 sonata each of them have there unique things about them I like.