Recent content by griz700rocket

As purchased off craigslist for $650. 99 Explorer 5.0 Limited with 135k on it. Transfer case is shot and has some pretty good body damage on passenger rear. Had a local body shop fix the damage. He gave me a really good deal since they were slow and I paid cash. Also swapped in a BW4406...

Donor - $650 craigslist find. Transfer case went out and they got the bright idea to pull the front driveshaft and CV shafts. Made it a few miles before the drivers side front wheel bearing came apart and the tire fell off. Only has 125k miles but the body is kinda rough. I have two other...

Picked up a rust free 2000 explorer sport last week. It's a 2wd 5 speed in really good condition overall. It does not have the monoleaf rear springs which surprised me. I bought this knowing I had 90% of the parts to convert it over to 4WD left over from solid axle swapping my 99. Here's a...

I'm starting a build thread mostly so I can keep track of where I am at on this build. Here's the project vehicle as it sits currently. Spring over axle in back with shorter shackles, full coil over conversion in front. Aussie locker in back and lock-right in front. I haven't made up my...

I bought 2 Moog K80109 caster camber adjusters and a few washers from Ace hardware. Added 8 washers under the drivers side coil and 6 under the passenger. As expected the camber was off a few degrees so I threw the adjusters in no problem. Here's the issue. I can set camber at 0 but the best...

Became a member here a while back when I bought a 99 Explorer Sport. Look up this same username at explorerforum if you want to check it out. It's getting retired from daily driver into a weekend play toy. Hopefully do a SAS on it sometime when funds allow. My new daily driver is a 96 5...