My 91 Exploder

[Foxracin]

It's okay, I still love you '91




Awesome build! Now make some extended radius arms

On the to do list after tires. That why I said the radius arm drop brackets temporarily. lol

Got to order some big heim joints and all that good stuff. Probably get some metal and do sliders at the same time.

 

[Grunizzle]

Sweet build. Looking forward to seeing some 33s underneath it!

 

[Foxracin]

35x12.50x15 BFG KM2's.

These tires ride like a Cadillac compared to the Super Swampers and dont make any noise at all. I kind of liked the noised though. Probably going to go next weekend and give it a test run and see how well they look.

 

[Boggin]

looks good man. if you dont mind me asking, how much did 4 of those run you?

 

[mc_muench]

ouch!!! that was a lil below the belt...

how could I forget your ex!!!! fox's is tied for best explorer here, sorry..my b

 

[Foxracin]

looks good man. if you dont mind me asking, how much did 4 of those run you?

They were used and I got them on a set of Pro Comp black steel wheels but they were 6 lug. I paid $800 for them but there pretty much new. Never been on the pavement just trailered to the trails about 10 times. Got the 6 lug wheels for sale to make some money back on them and already sold the 31's to get some money back on them also.

I would have bought new but NOBODY has them or can get them for another month or 2. There on national backorder.

 

[Boggin]

oh yea, id love to have a set of those but the prices are high for tires of a decent size

 

[Grunizzle]

35s? nice! Looks great!

 

[Foxracin]

35s? nice! Looks great!

Yep, went with the 35's instead of the 33's. Just going to leave the body lift on.

 

[nate09]

looks awesome. just ordered myself an xrc 8 for my ranger.

 

[Foxracin]

looks awesome. just ordered myself an xrc 8 for my ranger.

You will love it. Mine has already paid for itself a few times. Cant beat it for the price. I recommend it to everybody looking for a winch.

 

[Foxracin]

Went and got it aligned today and went to Lowes and got some line to extend all the vent lines. Swung by Walmart to and looked at the clearance section and they had 2 Hella 500 light kit sets on sale so I grabbed them. Got one Hella 500 set and one Hella 500FF set. Both came with relays and wiring and everything. Best part is I got them for $20 a set. Going to get some hid kit and convert these to HID.

They only had the 2 sets. Im going to go sometime and check all the other Walmarts around here and see if they have any in the clearance section.

Planning to go wheelin tomorrow and its raining like crazy out now so it will probably be pretty muddy. Ill post pics tomorrow.

 

[Foxracin]

Well good thing I extended the vent lines and moved the computer. Kind of sunk it up pretty good today.

Didnt get any pictures or many videos before it happened but I got one video coming out of the creek. It was wet sand and was pretty slick so it wasnt hooking up too good. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjM3CZseu3w

Was having to much fun to get more pics and vids then we got it sunk up. Mud hole didnt look bad at all but boy was I wrong. Hit it and the right side sunk deep. Started taking on water so got out and hooked up the winch and it started pulling pulled it about a foot and it died. Great. Wouldnt do anything. Figured the motor got water in it or something so pulled one of the bolts out and water poured out for about 10 seconds or so but still would do anything. Got the come along out and between that and trying to drive out we got it moved about 15 feet to the edge and the motor shut off and wouldnt start back. Then the come along fell apart so finally we found some guy that came down with his tractor and we finally got it out and when we got it out it fired right up and ran fine.

It never sucked any water in the intake. Guess it wouldnt start back up in the water cause the exhaust couldnt breath kind of like sticking something over the exhaust and it will shut off.

The water soaked everything on the inside the box I built was even full of water. Going to tear it all out tomorrow and seal up the box with silicone to keep it from happening again and pull the carpet out for some bedliner.

After we finally got it out.

The little hole. Some guy through logs over it and stuff to keep people from going in it again.

Where the water line was in the hole. 51 inches.

This was about 2 hours after we got it unstuck when we stopped to grab a bite to eat it was leaking water out and ran across the parking lot still. Its going to be leaking water for days.

Got back home and took the winch apart and found one of the little ground wires for the solenoid was broke off. Dont know if that was the cause or if I did that taking it off by accident. Fixed that and cleaned the motor out real good and its working fine now.

Also here are the Hella lights I got from Walmart for $20 a set.

Check engine light came on also so I got to check that out. Doesnt want to idle real good now.

 

[Grunizzle]

Damn what an innocent looking mud puddle! That will make me think twice next time I see a mud hole

 

[Foxracin]

Damn what an innocent looking mud puddle! That will make me think twice next time I see a mud hole

Same thing I said. lol