rawbaws
New Member
Just want to say I appreciate this site and everybody who posts helpful info. Used this site a bunch to help build my truck. I built it out for my camping trip out west and Canada and New england this past year (I live in NC). At first, I wanted a landcruiser/LX for this trip (actually bought an LX for the trip but it was too small so i sold it and bought this expedition... I'm 6'5 and I sleep in truck) but I'm glad I went with the expedition. Bought it from an old dude that never drove it only had 5k miles on it. Spent 2 months out west...Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, wash, org, ca, nev, az, ut, co...camped/hiked a ton of parks...even rafted the grand canyon for a week and took this thing the whole way. Slept/camped in it pretty much every night. Then came back east and did canada/new england for 6 weeks this past fall. 2 epic trips back to back. Hooked it up with an inverter and power pack to keep my beers and food cold in mini fridge...didn't want to mess with coolers/ice. Didn't really stay in 1 place for more than a couple days so it was sufficient for that. The reason I went with expedition was the size and rear area folding flat for sleeping...plus I'm a ford guy at heart have owned a bunch of broncos. Had my camping gear inside and on a front runner rack (awning, roam box, water tank, shovel, traction boards, light bar and fuel tank...yes I did need it ran out of gas in death valley and it saved my ass). Got bigger off road tires after I bought it, wrapped the lower half dark grey (thank god because i scratched the shit out of it going on trails) and blacked out the chrome, tinted all windows and windsheild. Blew out 3 of the 4 struts on the trip so I recently added the bilstein f-150 fronts and bilstein rears as well as pucks that added 1.5" of lift and leveled it out (pictures are pre-lift/shocks). I also got a tune up that added 100hp and it ******* flys now. Shout out 5star tuning in florence, sc...they did the shocks/lift and tune up. Anyways, wanted to share pics and say the expedition did really well for what I needed. Buried it on the beach in n cali but that was my own fault for being lazy and not airing down 1st but got lucky and got winched out from some Russian mafia looking dudes in a LC...but overall very capable off road vehicle...I got the fx4 with the locking rear and 4L. I'll try and add some pics of post lift later
