- Joined
- Apr 26, 2010
- Messages
- 1,274
- Reaction score
- 5
- Points
- 38
- Location
- Northern California, ca
- Vehicle Year
- 92
- Make / Model
- ford
- Engine Size
- 4.0
- Transmission
- Manual
- My credo
- ah SHIT!
traded a tired beat down 99 ranger on 33s for the worst investment of my life, dude hacked this 92 explorer, everything on it was stick welded and trashed. I should have kept my beat down ranger but live and learn.
here is is the day I got it, bald 37 inch E rated toyos, HP dana 44 3.73 front and sterling 10.25 4.10 rear. every thing on it was shot, tie rod ends, ball joints, front leaf springs, no front driveline, EVERYTHING.
So I got it and sat on it for a while, bought a set of 36x13.5x17 iroks with like 60% tread left, and slapped on the meats whie I played the parts collecting game.
I had a KP dana 60 from an early 90s f350 that I was planning on swapping into my 99 ranger some day. So I bought gears and install kits for the 60 and sterling, did a weekly trip to ruff stuff to get parts like their 7/8 super heavy duty steering kit, sterling heavy duty diff cover, high steer studs for the 60 since the guy gave me the arms when I bought the axle, and a bunch of other parts like shock tabs.
I brought the expo over to one of the most knowledgeable and talented people i know. Stilluv is a Member here with a 98 ranger with a SAS and 5.0. he installed the gears in the axles and then we were gonna do the simple axle swap... I messed up and didnt measure the spring width right. the 44 was a 32.5 inch spring width, my 60 was a 36.5 so we had to redo the garbage cross member and spring mounts.
they took the tie rod ends and welded them into a piece of old pipe... EVERYTHING on this was hacked...
here is is the day I got it, bald 37 inch E rated toyos, HP dana 44 3.73 front and sterling 10.25 4.10 rear. every thing on it was shot, tie rod ends, ball joints, front leaf springs, no front driveline, EVERYTHING.
So I got it and sat on it for a while, bought a set of 36x13.5x17 iroks with like 60% tread left, and slapped on the meats whie I played the parts collecting game.
I had a KP dana 60 from an early 90s f350 that I was planning on swapping into my 99 ranger some day. So I bought gears and install kits for the 60 and sterling, did a weekly trip to ruff stuff to get parts like their 7/8 super heavy duty steering kit, sterling heavy duty diff cover, high steer studs for the 60 since the guy gave me the arms when I bought the axle, and a bunch of other parts like shock tabs.
I brought the expo over to one of the most knowledgeable and talented people i know. Stilluv is a Member here with a 98 ranger with a SAS and 5.0. he installed the gears in the axles and then we were gonna do the simple axle swap... I messed up and didnt measure the spring width right. the 44 was a 32.5 inch spring width, my 60 was a 36.5 so we had to redo the garbage cross member and spring mounts.
they took the tie rod ends and welded them into a piece of old pipe... EVERYTHING on this was hacked...