ANOTHER exploder

[Hansoloo]

Not much really to say here but found this 93 with just barely 200k on the clock for way to good of a deal to pass up. Plan is the standard formula with 4” coils and a 2.5” smoothie up front maybe coilovers if I get crazy. So far I have a set of raptor 3.0 takeoffs for the back and a set of 4” lift coils for the front also have a mystery set of free wheels i need to find skinny 33s for but that’s about all there’ll be to it till my K10 is ready to tow it around longer distances.

 

[Hansoloo]

Exploder had to undergo a thorough baselining process before any parts get here:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMrMpWrRAnH/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

 

[zachwabbit]

Every day I regret not building a beamed explorer.. I’m convinced these are the next ‘full-size Bronco’ craze

 

[Hansoloo]

Okay took the exploder on a trail it had zero business doing stock and blew up the stock front hubs in a place I never would’ve expected even a d35 to fail. Anyone on here have a suggestion for what’s best to run? Is switching to a better set of manual hubs gonna be much stronger? I’ll definitely wind up driving rocky technical stuff still and that’ll be on a bigger set of tires. I don’t wanna go total snowball yet and swap to d35 beams and do the conversion bracket and all that

 

[the bodj]

Okay took the exploder on a trail it had zero business doing stock and blew up the stock front hubs in a place I never would’ve expected even a d35 to fail. Anyone on here have a suggestion for what’s best to run? Is switching to a better set of manual hubs gonna be much stronger? I’ll definitely wind up driving rocky technical stuff still and that’ll be on a bigger set of tires. I don’t wanna go total snowball yet and swap to d35 beams and do the conversion bracket and all that

D44 knuckles will bolt onto d35 beams but you’ll need to ream the ball joint holes on the beams. I believe it’s something like a 1.5:7 taper. I have the reamer in my toolbox. I did it on my beams, but I don’t have a driveshaft yet to run the 4x4 lol. I extended mine 4.5”, so I cut the Bronco axle inside the beam and welded on an appropriately length explorer inner splined section. You may be able to just swap the outer axle section at the U joint for the d44 outer axle

 

[LoganB]

Any pictures of what you were driving on?

I put brand new mile marker manual hubs on my 91 and I take it everywhere. It’s got 5 years of driving and thousands of off-road miles on it and never had a single issue with them, and that’s on 35s. I need to do a front end prep right now since it’s been so long and ball joints are starting to slop.

 

[Hansoloo]

D44 knuckles will bolt onto d35 beams but you’ll need to ream the ball joint holes on the beams. I believe it’s something like a 1.5:7 taper. I have the reamer in my toolbox. I did it on my beams, but I don’t have a driveshaft yet to run the 4x4 lol. I extended mine 4.5”, so I cut the Bronco axle inside the beam and welded on an appropriately length explorer inner splined section. You may be able to just swap the outer axle section at the U joint for the d44 outer axle

I think for the cost of parts I might just go ahead and do a d44 swap at that point I wanted to keep this thing more sleeper style but just finding a set of beams and a rear end outta a f150/bronco and doing that seems more reasonable if the fronts going 5x5.5

 

[Hansoloo]

Any pictures of what you were driving on?

I put brand new mile marker manual hubs on my 91 and I take it everywhere. It’s got 5 years of driving and thousands of off-road miles on it and never had a single issue with them, and that’s on 35s. I need to do a front end prep right now since it’s been so long and ball joints are starting to slop.

This is the best I have all 4 were up on rock when it happened I spun for a sec but not nearly enough to warrant the hubs going. I’ve driven d35 jeeps on 33s harder than this for sure

 

[bullnerd]

Did you get the Raptor shocks in there?

 

[Hansoloo]

Did you get the Raptor shocks in there?

Not yet need a leaf pack still for the back and I won’t likely have time till end of the month anyways