My 91 Exploder

[Kyle M.]

Yup, it works. I just scanned it with my phone and it brought me to your build thread....cool

 

[88_Eddie]

that's awesome, my cell phone isnt that advanced though. it takes me 5 minutes just to send a text.

 

[4.0B2]

that's awesome, my cell phone isnt that advanced though. it takes me 5 minutes just to send a text.

you mean not everyone has an iPhone? lol


lets get back to this awesome explorer...

 

[Foxracin]

Whats a iPhone? htc evo ftw!

 

[Foxracin]

Went and picked up some 2x2 and 2x4 steel tubing for the rock sliders yesterday. Also got some new caliper brackets from the local speed shop. There about twice as thick as the old one so hopefully they will hold up.

Started cutting out the rocker panels today. To get ready for the sliders. Cut a little over a inch out of the bottom of the doors and all of the rocker panels. About 4.5 inches total.

Rust in the normal spot.

Drivers side done.

Passenger side full of mud. lol

Starting to rust out.

Passenger side finished

Scrap

Going to try to get the frame cleaned up and painted and the sliders made up and welded on this week or next weekend.

 

[88_Eddie]

sweet, cant wait to see how these turn out. btw, how much you pay for steel down there?

 

[Foxracin]

2x4 3/16 was $6.00 a foot and 2x2 3/16 was $3.75 a foot.

 

[88_Eddie]

damn, not too bad. i just paid $7 a foot for 2x2x1/4. i need to find a new supplier

 

[Foxracin]

Well a few updates I forgot to mention.

Swapped on a set of manual doors and took the snorkel off a couple weeks ago but no pics.

Went and messed around in the woods with a buddy last friday and I ended up being the jeep recovery vehicle. My buddy got a little brave and ended up flopping his jeep. Pics dont really do much but its a little downhill off camber turs with a big rock you have to climb up one cause the is a tree in the way. It leans like crazy when your on it. He got a little brave and went too high up on the rock and over she went.

Only damage was busted out the windshield and dented the a pillar. Didnt even knock the side mirror off. We flipped it back over and kicked the windshield out and kept on truckin.



Made up some new power and ground wires with some 1 gauges welding wire my buddy had laying around. Replaced them all. Spins over fasssst now.

Got some new stickers in the mail today.

Also got all the old pieces of the old sliders ground off the frame so it ready for the new ones to be welded on. Going to try to get them on the week sometime.

 

[--weezl--]

i like the stickers! shitty bout the a-pillar, i bet that makes getting a new windshield installed difficult...

 

[86 slo-vo]

the expo is really turning out nice, keep it up.

 

[Foxracin]

Got the rock sliders on. Left a nice platform to tie in a exo cage later on down the road.

 

[88_Eddie]

sweet, weld them straight to the frame?

 

[Foxracin]

Yup.

 

[escort_gts]

Cool, I like the sliders. Nice Ex by the way