Full b2 build, 4.0, d35, 8.8.

[fordxranger]

i got it about a year and a half ago for free, threw a rebuilt a4ld into it, drove it, put the body lift on, hated the look, but loved the ease it made when working under the truck, bought the 6 inch rough country lift off a buddy, threw that on and was running 36" super swampers, the thing has some electrical problems, the frames tweaked from when i wrecked it.. so its turning into a donor rig for this new project.

btw, if you need anything off of a 88 b2 let me know. i still got my rolled one but its getting scrapped this saturday.

also once the motor, tranny, t case and running gear are out of the expo it will all be getting scrapped. if your interested, shit will be cheap..

let a lone the fact that i already have 2 t cases, two trannies, a 2.9 and a 4.0 and a set of axles in my garage already..

all I need is a cheap, running 4.0L that doesn't overheat for my explorer. I need to get it running and sell it. possibly a rear axle (8.8).

 

[jpistheman]

ill keep my eye out for ya.

i only have two right now and i want to keep one as a back up.

 

[jpistheman]

another update:

just got done pulling the motor out of the bronco. everything went good. found some more hacked up wiring..

i think tonight ill "try" to pull her into the garage and start working out the wiring issue.

in these pictures all of the wiring you see is all of the bronco harness correct?

i dont need any of it? all of it can be pulled out and scrapped and ill just be swapping the whole harness over from the explorer.

i just wanna make sure before i tear it all out that i dont need to keep any of it.

some wiring...

more wiring...

clean bay besides the wiring, and what looks like maybe james duff motor mounts? i heard that the motor mounts need to be drilled to fit the 4.0 and these haven't been drilled at all. i'm thinking that maybe they are conversion mounts.

 

[jpistheman]

another update!

just sold the rim and tire combo that was on the rig when i bought it for $150!

only $200 into the thing now.

 

[FordMan016]

nice BII eddie find. hard to find one of though as nice as yours is lol

 

[jpistheman]

nice BII eddie find. hard to find one of though as nice as yours is lol

thanks! i agree. eddies are getting harder and harder to find.


i got some work done on the motor swap today.

didnt get many pictures, but i got the radiator, intake and airbox, and started the lableling of all the wiring. i have tomorrow off so i think if i work through the night i can have the motor ready to be pulled for tomorrow!

 

[jpistheman]

all I need is a cheap, running 4.0L that doesn't overheat for my explorer. I need to get it running and sell it. possibly a rear axle (8.8).

i have a buddy with a 3.73 limited slip 8.8, it's out of a 94 expo. we just parted out. interested?

 

[fordxranger]

i have a buddy with a 3.73 limited slip 8.8, it's out of a 94 expo. we just parted out. interested?

how much $$$ send me a PM.

 

[jpistheman]

PM sent.

 

[jpistheman]

i'm hearing that swapping in the entire dash and steering column and everything from my explorer is going to be alot easier/faster then splicing?

can i get any input on this?

i cant find any builds or write ups where someones swapped the entire dash.

thanks.

 

[bronc]

I had also read that swapping the dash was easier. I can't comment though because that's not what I did. Originally, I did contemplate swapping the dash to make wiring easier. And it theoretically should because you are basically replacing all the wiring to be the Explorer wiring. So if you can go that route, maybe you should. I didn't end up doing that because the dash from the explorer was in bad shape. Also, I thought after pulling the dash from the explorer that putting one back in would be a real pain. So I did want to avoid that. But I suppose if you took your time, remember how everything goes back together, and have a friend to help, it may not be that bad.

 

[Shran]

I would swap the dash just because the 1st gen dash is gay. It would also give you the opportunity to go through and remove any wiring from the Ex that doesn't apply to the B2.

 

[jpistheman]

well sounds like i'm going to tear into my dash today. wish me luck!

 

[jpistheman]

update:

got some work done on the bronco, i got the entire dash and steering column out of the bronco. wasn't to bad, took several hours. i think its looking like the better way to go rather then splicing lots of wires. i also started work on the explorer dash. here's some pics.

old dash this morning;

several hours later;

after that i got the whole harness out of there and the steering column. can't wait to this the new dash all mounted in.


new dash;

hopefully i can get the explorer dash out and i'm going to push to get it mounted in tomorrow.



Also, i found a picture of my parts bronco we bought for the lift and tires, the tires are aired down so we could get the hoist high enough to lift the motor out lol.

 

[alaskan155]

some help for ya http://www.broncoii.org/techpages/dashswap/index.htm