Hey. Have a 1971 mav. (sorry if this is a similar repost for some). I'm trying to make a less blind decision on whether or not to buy a 95 explorer for parts to use on my mav. I'm thinking brakes, axle, wheels and such. can anyone think of what I can do with this and whether it is worth $400 to buy it? (the car was totaled by our insurance company). Can I even use it's parts on my mav or is this a futile idea? If anyone has any links to threads that would help too. I've been searching the forum like crazy all day. Thanks guys. The tour went awesome for those of you who know me. Now it's MAV TIME again!
You could use the rear, I think it's a bit wider than the Mav, but different offset wheels will correct that. The wheels will fit a 5 lug Mav. The front bucket seats can be made to work. Which motor and tranny? V8 will work, but the V6 oil pan is wrong. AOD tranny from behind a V8 will work with a different crossmember. Not much else I can think of, I'm sure others will chime in with things I may have missed.....
Rear disc brakes will work on a mav 5 lug 8" rear end. If its a V-8 5.0L(302 roller motor)the engine will work in a mav with the proper V-8 mav frame stands Look at the heads and see if they have 3 or 4 verticle bars on the ends.If its 3...Bonus!!! GT-40 heads. If its 4 bars...GT-40 P's not a good fit in a mav due to spark plug location wreaking havoc with header fitment.
sorry. forgot to include the explorer info in this post. here it is. 1995 Ford Explorer, VIN 1FMDU34X2SUA80987 Engine: v6 4.0L Tires: P235/75R15 105S Brand tire: Ladardo AS AWP SUV tires (think this is a Uniroyal tire) not too worried about the engine unless you think it is sellable. Mainly interested in converting to a 5 lug with disk brakes on all four wheels. I haven't gotten my rims yet but definitely have been searching because my stock ones are rusty on the inside. So new rims are a given either way I go. My biggest problem i think is that I don't know much about what is involved in doing the swap. I have a mechanic that will help me when I'm actually doing it but he's no maverick expert...really good with new mustangs tho. My mav is currently 4 lug drum on all 4 wheels. So I can swap the whole rearend from the explorer to do the swap - or is there a better way to do this? I have already rebuilt my front suspension but not the rear. If I do this I figure I'll do that rebuild while I'm in there. Any thoughts?... Anything you could add would be helpful. It's starting to make sense in my head.
the front brakes are of no use. they will not bolt on to the maverick. about the only thing that is helpfull to you is the rear diff. around here you can get a explorer 8.8 for 250.00. so 400 for a vehical that you have to pull the diff out of then get rid off does not sound like a good deal when you can get one from a salavge yard that will pull for you.
I did a granada front swap on my maverick. It was fairly simple, but I had to purchase new break lines as the Maverick's stock lines were too short and I sold the Granada after the swap so I couldn't use its lines. Bought the whole Granada for $400 and sold it for $300.
k. update... bought the explorer. had the community college agree to remove the engine and tranny for me for free and I just had to pay for the tow to take the rest away and take the differential and brakes off myself. the timing for them doing it didn't work out and it was going to be 5 days of storage for the car at $40 a day and then a $150 tow to get it to my house until I could go to raleigh to take the differential out so I ended up selling the car. Sucks cuz I got so excited about the swap and trying to learn and figure all the stuff out. Plus it would've been so cool to keep our old explorer alive in the mav lol. I think of something crazy again soon. thanks for all the help guys. It really helped. now to figure out why I won't idle... but that's for another thread.
To use the Explorer rear in the Mav, you'll need to shorten the left side axle and relocate the spring pads to the Mav ctr to ctr distance (43") You can shorten the drviers side to the passengers side length and use another pasenger side axle to make it work. The front discs are of no use. But before doing any work to the rear, first look at the ID tag on the backside cover of the rear. There you'll find the gear ratio and if you're lucky an "L" in the middle of the ratio. The "L" denotes the presence of a Traction-Loc unit in the differential. You will have one of the following ratios in that 8.8 : 3.08, 3.55, 3.73 or 4.10.
