New Toy! 1998 Expedition XLT 4x4

ExplorerTom · May 8, 2020

Try it and see what kind of lift it gives you.

I helped a friend swap coil springs on his Suburban. He installed Z71 springs. I think those springs would work on an Expedition.

The thing with 1st gens is that no one has done much with them. You might need to be the trail blazer.

Stepcajun · May 8, 2020

So f250 springs and spacers= 5" lift?
Let me know if you try them out.

AZoutdoorsman · May 8, 2020

Stepcajun just planning on doing springs instead of spacers. Only looking for 2.5-3”. I’m going to get them. I’ll be sure to document when I do it!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

AZoutdoorsman · May 8, 2020

Finished the Gotts mod today. Haven't taken her for a spin yet. I will sometime this weekend. Turned out pretty good I think.
Belt sander made all of the difference helped to hog off most of the PVC. I even pulled the inner fender to make sure I didn't stick the pipe in too far and cut off air.

AZoutdoorsman · May 8, 2020

I had another thought tonight. My wife has a 2011 XLT Expedition and I was looking at her radiator fans. I think with some minor modifications a set of Electric fans from a 3rd gen would fit a 1st gen. Measurements are close I would just have to come up with some mounting brackets. Anybody ever seen or heard anyone doing this? I was curious if they would flow enough air? Know where to find the fan flow specs? I assume they would as they both have a 5.4 in them I just don't know how different the radiators are. Really want to do electric fans mostly to give myself more room in the engine bay, take the load of the mech fan off the engine, and based on ExplorerTom's input of it helping his A/C out a bunch. It gets hot here in AZ!

rjdelp7 · May 9, 2020

AZoutdoorsman said:
I had another thought tonight. My wife has a 2011 XLT Expedition and I was looking at her radiator fans. I think with some minor modifications a set of Electric fans from a 3rd gen would fit a 1st gen. Measurements are close I would just have to come up with some mounting brackets. Anybody ever seen or heard anyone doing this? I was curious if they would flow enough air? Know where to find the fan flow specs? I assume they would as they both have a 5.4 in them I just don't know how different the radiators are. Really want to do electric fans mostly to give myself more room in the engine bay, take the load of the mech fan off the engine, and based on ExplorerTom's input of it helping his A/C out a bunch. It gets hot here in AZ!

Look up on Youtube, Nick's Garage - episode with the 1970 Torino. He gives his opinion on modifying vs stock. He mentions changing the fan to electric. He basically says the small power increase is not worth it. In short, leave it alone.

ExplorerTom · May 9, 2020

I changed my fan to electric on my 2000. The reason I did it was that anytime I drove from Dillon to the Eisenhower Tunnel, it would kill my clutch fan. Happened to me twice.

The power wasn’t noticeably different. Maybe slightly improved throttle response taking off. The AC worked better at idle. MPGs weren’t noticeably different. It did free up a lot of space in front of the engine though.

Raptor fans supposedly fit as well.

AZoutdoorsman · May 10, 2020

Welp today got interesting. I got home this evening to find a pool of red fluid under the truck... got under there to take a look and it looks like its coming from between the transmission and transfer case. Wonderful my first thought is the tranny so I go pull the dip stick wipe it off reinsert it and pull it back out and the transmission is overful?!?!? WTH how does this happen... looking more and more like I need to pull the transfer case and take a look at what the hell is going on.

Maximus · May 23, 2020

Congrats man! Just make sure you stay on top of the problem spots and you'll have that truck forever.

George Salazar · Jun 25, 2020

Question on the F-250 springs: What year F-250 would you be sourcing from? This is for rear only, right? This wouldn't work for the front?

New Toy! 1998 Expedition XLT 4x4

ExplorerTom

Full Access Members

Stepcajun

Well-Known Member

AZoutdoorsman

Member

AZoutdoorsman

Member

AZoutdoorsman

Member

rjdelp7

2000 XLT

ExplorerTom

Full Access Members

AZoutdoorsman

Member

Maximus

Active Member

George Salazar

Member

Similar threads

Latest posts

Staff online

Members online

Forum statistics

Share this page