Doing a "weekend" project

[SPSully]

I found a donor explorer with leather captains seats. Decided to rape the donor for the seats, center console, overhead console, visors, and roof rack. Roof rack is already on my cap. But I have 3 days off so the interior is getting over hauled.

If I can get tapatalk to let me post the pictures, I'll get some up. I may be able to answer some questions about interchange between the ext cab and explorer.

 

[JHEALY421]

Hey man I'm new to TRS, just wanted to say what's up and also ask about the roof rack. How did you go about mounting it ? I'm interested in finding one myself just don't know how to go about the mounting. Did you have to McGyver something up or was the oem mounting good to go ?

 

[JHEALY421]

Thing is I don't have a cap like you mentioned you do. I wanna mount it straight to the cab of the truck

 

[SPSully]

No clue how mounting it to the cab would work. I just drilled holes in the cap and stick machine screws and HUGE washers on it.

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[JHEALY421]

Ahh, I see. Makes me want to just find a bed cap now. Do you plan to install light bars or any other light source to the rack

 

[SPSully]

nope. This is my work truck. I deliver lost luggage out if the airport and every so often I have deliveries that don't fit in the bed nicely. Ski bags for example have to go diagonally which eats up cargo space BIG TIME!

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[SPSully]

Had to take advantage of everything being out. Decided the carpet was coming out to get cleaned... And I'm going to spray some rubberized sound deadener.

 

[SPSully]

test fitting found that some minor cutting and a missing bracket was needed... ran out to get the bracket from my donor vehicle and ran out of daylight.

 

[SPSully]

Some shots of the donor parts before getting some love

 

[SPSully]

Any body know why that slot that looks like a hand brake slot is there? Came out of a 97 5.0 explorer

 

[SPSully]

Ahh, I see. Makes me want to just find a bed cap now. Do you plan to install light bars or any other light source to the rack

I'll get some pictures for you tomorrow when I have daylight. The cross members are removable. A set of Yakima to do the exact same thing runs almost 500 bucks. I got these for 25.

 

[griz700rocket]

Behind the slot should be a tissue box holder and the slot is where you pull them out of.

 

[SPSully]

Not sure if that's a joke, but with my allergies, it's about to happen.


I need some help. I'm wiring the overhead console as per the tech article. I can't find my temp sensor. Should I have stolen that from the donor as well?

 

[SPSully]

Never mind... Just saw the one sentence I missed that clearly states "you need to grab the temperature sensor"

Reading is fundamental people. Damn I suck at taking my own advice.

 

[SPSully]

Today I mounted the overhead console and the bracket for the center console. Ran all the wires for the seats, overhead console, visors, and some additional lighting inside my cap. Then I went to spray the rubber stuff and one of the cans exploded. Not happy about it.

This is the bracket I needed. Could have just self tapped the console to the floor, but I wanted to do it correctly so I got the bracket from the donor. It's rivetted to the floor by ford. Just smashed it with a hammer and pry and it came right out. Then I drilled out the old rivots and self tapped that bracket down

Then I went to get the temp sensor I forgot and...

We officially have a project here!

It was looking good. But then a can started puking out the nozzle... good feelings gone