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[85_Ranger4x4]

On the gaskets for those 90 degree adapters the easiest place to get them is buying the cheapest oil filter you can find or finding an O ring with the right dimensions, we have to do that at work, was easier when cheap filters were like $2 instead of whatever they are now... I don't remember what I did on my 5L when I rebuilt it, I think I took that off but I might have avoided it so I didn't need to risk it...

The one I had took the thin green oval o-rings with the bumps, the one that sealed against the block was smaller than a normal oil filter o-ring both in diameter and cross section.

The one under the bolt head was of course way small.

 

[bobbywalter]

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[bobbywalter]

Now I'm curious on what an over rail steering box would come from... I'm going to need to get creative once I start butchering the Explorer...

Eric, on the coolant side of the oil cooler, that's just a copper piece sandwiched on a 90 degree adapter, the cooler part will come off but you'd be short the male/male thread piece to screw a filter on there most likely.

On the gaskets for those 90 degree adapters the easiest place to get them is buying the cheapest oil filter you can find or finding an O ring with the right dimensions, we have to do that at work, was easier when cheap filters were like $2 instead of whatever they are now... I don't remember what I did on my 5L when I rebuilt it, I think I took that off but I might have avoided it so I didn't need to risk it...

over rails were and are common. with the sla chassis they never had a gear so toy/nissan boxes seem to be a base.

Eric is using the ttb so he is good.....but going the other way with a solid axle in the explorer you tend to go this way....

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i run gm or 70s fords. even gen 1 dodge with stand off plate. because the lines just hook up. the japanese setups need some minor adaptation in regards to fittings and lines and splines. depending on where you are at this can be a pia.

i just use junkyard parts which now of course is becoming an issue as things age out...used to be ridiculously cost effective combined with a cut up jeep shaft. now...i am thinking of buying one of these to have on the shelf...

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cut the jeep shaft to fit.

i use a jelly bean ford truck adapter to stand it off the frame on the gen 1 chassis.


in the 90s the systems change and relocation of throughput in the firewall is easier because it gets a joint in there. combination of factory taurus and ranger parts with jeep outer makes fitting big blocks a non issue.

but those pictures are all gone.

if eric ever goes to fullsize ttb or a solid axle this will help in that department

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Odd, my '00 didn't have one of those oil coolers...

Yeah, the condenser has clips into the radiator, I think they're just wedges but I'm not quite sure, mine are broken and the radiator wore a hole in the condenser...

If I remember right I just got the fan and shroud out of the way and the radiator and drug the whole thing out, might have taken off all of the front brackets though and the upper intake.

I think 98 was the last year for those oil coolers

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

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Mine didn't use that style. I wrote it off and never really pursued it too hard after I decided it wasn't going to fit.





As of 5 years ago I could only find them in overhaul gasket kits, NLA from Ford and nobody sold them on their own.

 

[Curious Hound]

Well, this page full of posts will be useful later. I’ll just have to see how everything fits later. It’s hard to compare right now. The Explorer engine bay just “looks” really different in that area due to the IFS/rack&pinion steering and the fact that the suspension isn’t lifted like my Ranger.

It feels strange. With the Explorer front on ramps and rear on jack stands, it is still hard to work underneath. The t-case just barely cleared the running boards to roll out on the transmission jack. I feel like I have twice as much space under the Ranger.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I think 98 was the last year for those oil coolers

Not to distract too much from Eric's stuff but I'm going Jana 54 hopefully for an axle likely with a swingset of some form and am trying to keep the ideas flowing.

and Eric, wait until you try to get the transmission out from under it , those AWD T cases are tiny compared to the bellhousing... I know what you mean, I don't even have to jack up my Ranger to get the transmission out, same with the F350...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Well, this page full of posts will be useful later. I’ll just have to see how everything fits later. It’s hard to compare right now. The Explorer engine bay just “looks” really different in that area due to the IFS/rack&pinion steering and the fact that the suspension isn’t lifted like my Ranger.

It feels strange. With the Explorer front on ramps and rear on jack stands, it is still hard to work underneath. The t-case just barely cleared the running boards to roll out on the transmission jack. I feel like I have twice as much space under the Ranger.

That's how I am with the Bronco.

Right after the transmission crossmember my Ranger's frame kicks way up and out of the way giving it drastically more room underneath.

SUV frames do not have that kick up.

 

[Curious Hound]

Forgot to mention the other day. The power steering fluid that drained out of the explorer looked like motor oil that hadn’t been changed in 50,000 miles or more. Very black, dirty and sludgy.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Forgot to mention the other day. The power steering fluid that drained out of the explorer looked like motor oil power steering fluid that hadn’t been changed in 50,000 250,000 miles or more. Very black, dirty and sludgy.

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