Project El Taco...1990 BII

[master hec0]

that reminds me of a mid 90s full sized bronco

 

[jims89broncoII]

makes me wish i kept the 4.0 sohc out of my explorer i sold a week ago!!

 

[RacinNdrummin]

Alright, lets bring this thread back from the dead....

After doing some wheeling with my friend doug in his XJ, and finally getting some sunny days to work on stuff, I decided to get this sucker running and have fun with it this summer.

Yesterday, I went out to the JY and picked up an almost new clutch hydraulic hose and some inner fenders. Today Doug helped me and we got the T-case in and the shifters hooked up, as well as the injectors rebuilt, intake/fuel rail on and a bunch of little stuff. Tomorrow I plan to hit the JY and grab some stuff and Im hoping to have this thing going by this weekend, its about 85% of the way there. Hopefully I dont have any hang up's.

Also, I challenge anybody to post pics or video of a running SOHC/EEC-IV in a first or second gen RBV. I know there are a couple of people who claim to have done it, but there is no proof, at least that I can find. If your smart enough to do the swap, your smart enough to post video, I know I will as soon as I start it. If nobody can show proof, Im gonna claim first documented SOHC/EEC-IV swap.

Anyway, here is a couple of pics... More tomorrow.

 

[88_Eddie]

wow i remember this thread from a long time back, guess i never subscribed

 

[ragajungle]

SUBSCRIBED!

I think you might be the 1st one to mount a Navajo grill on a B2 too!

 

[84_Nor*Cal_Ranger]

just read this whole thing and all i can say is wow. keep up the good work

 

[shawn.m]

subscribed here

 

[RacinNdrummin]

Update...

Today I hit up the JY to grab a front drive shaft from an explorer to shorten for the rear. I pulled a shaft and yoke and started to walk through the yard, then I noticed a Mid-90's sport. So I went and checked it out, and notice its a 5-speed, and the shaft was still there, BINGO! So I found the sought after explorer cardan shaft! Also picked up a couple of other small things.

I installed the airbox and then proceded to shorten the drive shaft...

Here is the diffference between the stock B2 CV garbage and the explorer sport Cardan shaft:

NUFF SAID-

So the process begins... I marked a line with permanent marker about 8 inches down the length of the shaft on the Cardan end and proceded to grind the weld down flush with the tube.

Then I wrapped masking tape around the tube in about where the center of the weld was and drew a line around the edge of the tape.

Then I took the shaft to the bandsaw and followed the line around about an 1/8" deep. Next I took a Deadblow and knocked the flange off and out of the end of the tube.

Next I took and Marked the tube 6" in from the end just cut off (the difference of the two shafts to make the length I need) and again masked it off at the line and drew a line around it, and took it back to the band saw and cut it off just shy of the line...

Then I took a grinder and ground the rest down right to the edge of the line so that the end was perpendicular to the tube and checked with a square. I also ground the surface of the end so I could get a good weld on it.

I lined up the lines and installed the end in the tube all the way up to where I sawed...its a very very snug fit.

Then I threw a tig weld down on it just because I can

Done!

Thats as far as I got today, but im sure ill get some decent progress tomorrow...

Stay tuned.

 

[PaleBlue90]

nice welds!

 

[RacinNdrummin]

Got the shafts in today and the underside pretty much done aside from the exhaust, the new rear shaft fits like a dream. Spent more time running around getting parts from auto part stores than anything. Also got the belt on and some more small stuff out of the way. Picked up a Magnaflow cat and some sensors, Going to toss a thrush welded muffler on as well.

All I have left is some minor wiring, my intake tube, a coolant sensor adapter for my sender and CLT, and the exhaust. If all goes well, Ill have the thing running tomorrow night.

 

[countryboy]

good luck and i just subscribed got to go read the rest

 

[cargs]

I have found another thread where someone put a SOHC in their 94 explorer:
http://www.explorerforum.com/forums//showthread.php?t=159001

I want to do the same to my 93 ranger. i have the SOHC engine in my garage, i just need to find a fuel rail from a 97 SOHC.

 

[BlackBII]

Great job on the driveshaft!

Can't wait until this one is done. That native american front end really gives it a...'natural' look.

I like it.

 

[multiranger]

Dude this is an Awesome build! Me likes very much...

 

[spdcrazy]

not often i read 6 pages of a thread in one sitting.
props. guess i need to start working on my 4.0 swap. not a SOHC tho