f150 trail explorer

[ferp420]

this kinda showed up at my house back story as I know it

my friend is addicted to buying cars from cars for kids actions well he's on his 7th or 8th rig by now lol well he bid on this one and I took a liking to it and well here it is


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[ferp420]

it turned out it had no keys so a quick visit with the lock Smith and whalla keys
put a battery in it and that damb thing fired up but wouldn't idle but I was able to drive it off the trailer
after a bit of tinkering I got it to idle and run it longenuff to though a code
cloged EGR valve and sure enuff the intake and EGR was plugged solid and the EGR had a heat shield that covered the part were it connected to the exhaust and it wasn't even connected and probably why it tossed the code I'm guessing that's why they parked it and donated it
anyway I'm waiting for new intake gaskets to put it back together and should be ready to smog

I'm sure there are some problems I haven't figured out yet and I'm sure the DMV is gonna kick my teeth out when it comes time to register it lol
my Subaru is taking a beating I've welded the suspension mounts back in twice and I'm bending struts like pretzels and it's a lot of fun to wheel but it is what it is and there's no way around that at this time at least that I can afford
converting the tow pig to a desert runner would cost to much and would be a ton of work I'm just not up for and is kinda useless to me now since I'm not towing a 10k 5th wheel around the state anymore
and since these rigs are a dime a dozen these days it's about 1/3rd the cost to build it up to what I need it to be and so the slow build of my new trail rig is starting now lol

 

[OSRC]

Nice! I like it!

Got a pair myself...

 

[ferp420]

Nice! I like it!

Got a pair myself...

I had no idea how cheap those things are
I was looking at rebuilding my 87 and doing some upgrades like
auto to manual swap and
4wd solid axle conversion
that would cost almost 10k to do it right mostly machining and rebuilding costs
this truck even if I have to rebuild/replace the motor and or transmission I would be in it for about 3-4k

anyway truck runs good now and is drivable the damb tires were shot and I had 2 blow outs driving around the property it turns out the wheels and tires I bought for my roo project fit nicely on it so I'm running them for now maybe a better fit than the Subaru

there are some noises I need to track down sound like there coming from the accessories on the front when I put the scope up to the AC compressor I here a lot of noise but it's not spinning with the AC off so that's most likely not it
nothing from the oil pan so not thinking rod knock and valve covers are pretty quiet too so probably not valve train slop ether
all the sounds come and go so catching it while it's doing it is gonna be key