| Parking lot shots, baby! The new axle mounted... That pinion looks pretty low, and the points of the hex housing hang down a bit farther than the mounting flange of the 3rd member, but I'm hoping it won't be too much of an anchor in the rocks. Notice my pink, and completely disreguarded phase alignment marks on my drive shaft. That there's worth extra Okie style points; bothering to make the marks, in pink no less, then not paying them any attention!
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| The Ford SVO disk brakes fit inside the 15in wheels with no problem. The final part of the new axle integration is finding reasonably priced e-brake cables for a late 90s Exploder. I'm sure that ought to be about as rare as an Okie with a full set of teeth. (Although that might be changing... Snoop Dogg has proposed Malt Liquor tooth paste, so's your teefs can get their drunk on! What Okie won't be down wit' dat!)
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| The hex housing looks all stealth fighter, especially with the brace across the back. You can also see the soft line for the rear brakes dropping down to the T on the axle from a bracket mounted to the fuel tank.
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| Above the bracket you can see that the stock LSPV has been removed. The return line from the LSPV has been pressed into wire management duty for the wires running the rear lights. Tres elegante, eh mon cherie?!?!
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| The LSPV was ditched for this manual proportioning valve mounted to the fire wall next to the brake booster/master cylinder. I simply cut the line going to the rear brakes and flared on some SAE ends that matched the fittings on the PV. The new braking system works quite well. What I should do is rip out all the unnecessary ABS plumbing while the brake line routing is still fresh in my mind. I already know I'll wait until I forget any vestige of a clue I ever had and have to figure it out all over again...
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| I also installed this auto tranny cooler in the power steering return line. Having read that once you destroy one PS pump you tend to keep going through them because it's hard to get all the shrapnel out of the system, I was mostly interesting in the magnetic filter element. The extra fluid capacity and cooler running isn't a bad thing either!
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| I'm a little worried that it will be vulnerable on the front bumper, but sitting back like it does (under the watchful eye of Big P), not to mention having cooled my jets on the brush busting since shoving a branch through my windshield and almost into my forehead, I think it will be fine...
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