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Truck of the Week Diffwhackdaddy 2/3/04

I have a 93 XLT w/ Auto tranny. It was nicknamed The Big Model by my neighbor and is not affectionately called the Green Mistress by my Wife. I currently live in Arlington, WA.

So far I have added:
  • Front solid d44 with 79 bronco coil buckets, F250 shock mounts, 5.5" Wild Horses Rock Crawler EB springs, and chrome molly axle shafts.
  • Front diff guard and custom steering links
  • Rear Spring Over Axle with Old Man Emu 2" lift springs and Warrior Shackles
  • 35x12.50 Good Year MTR's
  • 4.88 gears front and rear w/ ARB air lockers front and rear.
  • Rear TA support diff cover to protect 8.8 and ARB
  • Advance Adapters installed a 700-R4 and the kit is now available.
  • Additional stock type transmission cooler (2 total) with an external tranny filter from permacool
  • Atlas II transfer case w/ 3.8:1 gears and 1350 u-joints
  • Smittybuilt winch front bumber reinfoced with 2" square tubing and an added receiver hitch for a front tow point
  • Smittybuilt rear bumber modified w/ a reciever hitch and swing down tire/hi-lift carrier
  • KKM Sport Induction air filter
  • Borla catback exhaust modified to exit at side
  • Warn HS9500i winch
  • Rancho RS9000 shocks at each corner
  • ARB air pump provides on board air for tires and ARB air lockers.
  • Custom Rock Sliders built by arsoul
  • PIAA Superwhite replacement headlamp bulbs
  • PIAA 520 fog lights (1 pair)
  • KC 150 watt Daylighters (1 pair)
  • Xtreme 2"X4" driving lights mounted above rear hatch glass and wired into reverse lights
  • Rock lights above rear axle facing the rear and behind the front tires facing the front.
  • Dual battery system utilizing 2 Optima yellow tops and the ABS relay circuitry to control isoltion of the second battery.
  • Cobra 7 CB w/ 5.5' Firestick antenna mounted to rear bumper
  • Magellan Map 330 GPS
  • Sony audio deck matched w/ a 10 disk cd changer and all new speakers including a 12" MTX subwoofer

    Future plans include:
  • Internal roll bar
  • AGR Rock Ram (or equivalent) Hydrolic Assist Steering
  • in the proccess of rebuilding a motor. It's going to use a comp street grind cam and exhaust through headers and a high flow cat.

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Here's a link to some more pics of the beast and the solid axle converion pics.

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/mcinchaks2/lst?.dir=/Solid+Axle&.view=t
 



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HotCtyPlaya

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Beautiful...simply put....

I wanna see it after the motor is done...

Actually I really hear it... :)
 






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Congrats Kevin!
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Nice Truck, I just noticed you have the exact same set up as my solid axle conversion, other than I installed my brackets a bit differently.:D
 


















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Great job on the buildup, it's always been one of my favorite trucks. Congrats :chug:
 






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Congrats kevin, you still got the paragon flag on there? :chug:
 






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did you use standard 6" explorer coils, or did you get some EB ones and paint em red? Looks sweet. The red cross on the passenger door adds Tons!! It really sets it apart from the rest!! LOL


Sweet truck. It was fun wheelin' with ya at T-Haven.

Don't forget to mention all the Amsoil in the engine too that you keep winning cause you drive for so damn long to get to CA.

Later,

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Oh yeah, and one burnt up tent!!
 






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Congrats Kevin.....gonna road trip it to Carlisle this year?? :D
 






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Thankyou

Thanks everyone...

Originally posted by Blaine122300
did you use standard 6" explorer coils, or did you get some EB ones and paint em red?

The coils are Wild Horses 5.5" Rock Crawlers for an early bronco.
:chug:
 






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Alright!!!

Way to go Kevin!;)
 






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Congrats Kevin Dead Link Removed I noticed you had done a lot, but didn't realize you had done all of that to it until reading your (very long) list of mods!

And yes Doug, he was still wearing the Paragon flag at Moab :D
 



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Great truck! LONG list of real mods. Nice work!!
 






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