Barimpact
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Hey everyone, I just picked up my 2nd Expedition, and I've decided I'm going to do a mild off road build with it. My first Expy was a 99 Eddie Bauer 5.4 with 265k, but it shredded the trans in about a week, so I parted it out and scrapped the rest.
This fine machine is a 4.6, but it only has 108k original miles, and I picked her up for $300, clean title, running and driving .Previous owner was in a huge heap of trouble with the city for parking it all over his neighborhood illegally, so the city said either move it or get a huge fine (something like $3000, basically the sum of all the parking tickets he didn't pay) by the end of the week. Nobody wanted it, so I took it at the end of the week for as low as he was willing to part with it.
Like I mentioned, it's a 4.6L with 108k miles. It has 4x4 with the awful auto mode and no 2wd only mode (don't worry, brown wire mod coming). It's the XLT package, with the leather, steel springs, no fog lights, and I was told it has the 2wd front valence/bumper thing from a friend of mine that has had many F150s that are this body style.
It has a few issues. The alternator wiring is a big mess (I have a different thread dedicated to it), the 3rd row is missing, it has a mega exhaust leak at the headers, but I don't think the headers themselves are cracked. I know for sure the "downpipes" right after the headers are full of holes. The radio was stolen from previous owner, there was a fire that put a big hole in the middle seat of the rear bench (like a cigarette hole but about 8 inches in diameter), and the odometer screen is intermittent (plan to resolder and fix this soon).
I plan to make this a mild build, something that could almost keep up with my '00 Cherokee off road. I plan to rent it to friends that don't have 4x4s when we get groups together for big trips. Mods I plan to have by the end of the build:
- Wheels/tires
- Black tail lights
- Black headlights
- LED headlight bulbs
- Off road lights (lots of them for night wheeling)
- Roof rack
- Bluetooth radio
- Rear lunchbox diff lock
- Trans temp gauge
- Trans cooler electric fan and maybe upgraded cooler
- Aesthetic upgrades (like DIY painting some parts, removing stuff, etc)
It will probably take me a few weeks to get it built to a good starting point, but I plan to take her wheeling at Haspin Acres in Laurel, Indiana on the 1st of November. I will post pictures of all the progress I make here, and will upload videos to my YouTube channel where I feel like it would be interesting (example, I'm not gonna video putting wheels and tires on it, every DIY person knows how to change a tire).
If you've made it this far into the post you must be interested in the build, so stay tuned and I'll get this thing going!
This fine machine is a 4.6, but it only has 108k original miles, and I picked her up for $300, clean title, running and driving .Previous owner was in a huge heap of trouble with the city for parking it all over his neighborhood illegally, so the city said either move it or get a huge fine (something like $3000, basically the sum of all the parking tickets he didn't pay) by the end of the week. Nobody wanted it, so I took it at the end of the week for as low as he was willing to part with it.
Like I mentioned, it's a 4.6L with 108k miles. It has 4x4 with the awful auto mode and no 2wd only mode (don't worry, brown wire mod coming). It's the XLT package, with the leather, steel springs, no fog lights, and I was told it has the 2wd front valence/bumper thing from a friend of mine that has had many F150s that are this body style.
It has a few issues. The alternator wiring is a big mess (I have a different thread dedicated to it), the 3rd row is missing, it has a mega exhaust leak at the headers, but I don't think the headers themselves are cracked. I know for sure the "downpipes" right after the headers are full of holes. The radio was stolen from previous owner, there was a fire that put a big hole in the middle seat of the rear bench (like a cigarette hole but about 8 inches in diameter), and the odometer screen is intermittent (plan to resolder and fix this soon).
I plan to make this a mild build, something that could almost keep up with my '00 Cherokee off road. I plan to rent it to friends that don't have 4x4s when we get groups together for big trips. Mods I plan to have by the end of the build:
- Wheels/tires
- Black tail lights
- Black headlights
- LED headlight bulbs
- Off road lights (lots of them for night wheeling)
- Roof rack
- Bluetooth radio
- Rear lunchbox diff lock
- Trans temp gauge
- Trans cooler electric fan and maybe upgraded cooler
- Aesthetic upgrades (like DIY painting some parts, removing stuff, etc)
It will probably take me a few weeks to get it built to a good starting point, but I plan to take her wheeling at Haspin Acres in Laurel, Indiana on the 1st of November. I will post pictures of all the progress I make here, and will upload videos to my YouTube channel where I feel like it would be interesting (example, I'm not gonna video putting wheels and tires on it, every DIY person knows how to change a tire).
If you've made it this far into the post you must be interested in the build, so stay tuned and I'll get this thing going!
