Black Smoke Donkey

Post by **Kinder** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:49 pm

Thanks. Talent, not so much, but I'm learning. Gumption, yeah that I've got.

I've got both plates and I've registered them under the YOM process so I run them legally.

Post by **Kinder** » Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:15 am

Pulled the camper and doors a few days ago, maybe a day or two early since we've had snow fall, doh. I also slap

ped in some door inserts, the rear openings need a little more work, they are too tight for adults. I started refitting the soft top, I had planned on just extending the top but now I may go in a slightly more strange direction, targa top. I'll have to work out attachment and how to weather seal the front section, this is in the raw mockup stage so be gentle.

Post by **landshark** » Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:31 am

Iam sure you already thought of this but why not but a hard top section on the front? you could put two fronts together or chop a rear and front.. would seal and you would get those soft doors to fit pretty well I would think as well.

Post by **JGZ** » Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:57 am

I might have a solution for you.

Post by **landshark** » Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:00 am

JGZ wrote:I might have a solution for you.

that would be perfect, you could put a privacy slider in the back of the half cab and act like your in a noisy limo

Post by **JGZ** » Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:12 am

Comes with free patina.No extra charge.Fits right in with yer motife.

Post by **Justin** » Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:27 am

I had the same thought. A partial hard top seems like a perfect solution.

Post by **Jesus_man** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:34 am

I like the Half-cab idea as an option when the camper isn't in place and for during the winter. But I think an acre sized Safari top would be sweet! You could install roll-up windows and to seal at the front, do as the stock ones do. Just sew in a piece of rope that slides into the channel on the header.

Post by **Kinder** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:26 pm

Picked up the fiberglass half can from Jay the other day and started mocking it up.

1st pic is the top roughly cut to size and just sat on the window frame so I could get an idea of what I needed to mod.

2nd pic is after a bit of trimming and resizing the fiberglass section and adding a third bow just behind the front attachment point. I shortened the middle bow and raised the rear bow, I was trying to improve the line and look. The front bow is to improve the seal area between the two.

I still need to permanently attach the front bow and build a latch system for the targa section. But it's drivable right now, woohoo.

Post by **Justin** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:51 pm

That looks really, really good.

Post by **Lobobronco** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:25 am

Looks awesome! Nice work and when does the patent come out!

Post by **Kinder** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:41 am

BSD back to work, pulled the pop up out for the 1st time this season, ready to get the family out camping.

Post by **eaglebear** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:48 am

were you going down 285 the other day? I think I saw you or a rig like you.

Post by **Kinder** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 10:11 am

I was cruising around that area last week, so it could have been me. I don't know of another Bronco that looks like mine around here, it's pretty distinctive, you could even call it ugly.

Post by **D&D72** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 2:19 pm

It makes fugly look cool.

Post by **Kinder** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:49 pm

I check out truckcampermagazine.com every so often and I just happen to send in a reply to their question of the week a while back. They had a lot of replies and you can check out BSD when it was just a Colt near the bottom of the page. Back then it was just the Dirty Donkey, pretty funny seeing it so small .

http://www.truckcampermagazine.com/week ... own-part-2

Post by **Digger** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:37 am

Nice!

How is road tripping in the Bronco with the family? I'm not worried about my 3yr old son and myself sitting in a loud and hot truck going down the road, but my wife and younger son may be a different story.

Post by **Kinder** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 4:54 pm

Oh my wife doesn't come along on the long trips, she does like wheeling for the day. I screwed up when I bought her a popup, she'll never go back to the tent.

Post by **Digger** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:29 am

That's the truth. We bought a small popup in preparation for my 2nd son. It's been nice and small enough to tow up some tight trails.

Post by **Kinder** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 1:29 pm

Finally started working on my back doors, at least the soft doors, the real rear doors will have to wait until fall. I picked up Brett's old Kayline doors a while back and as the hip kids say they are getting "rebooted."

Kind of hard to see the wire frame for the lower & upper frame in the third shot. I modeled them after the two piece doors on the front and reused everything that I cut down somewhere else on the frame. I'm also reusing the skins and they'll be cut and fit in two pieces. I have a gap between the two top frames that will be filled with another custom panel, again made from the old Kayline door hardware and skins. I need to find two handles that match the front doors, shouldn't be too hard since the front doors are still produced.

Post by **landshark** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 7:58 pm

Looks pretty good! too bad you cant just join the fiberglass together in the center - or maybe you could?

Post by **D&D72** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:04 pm

suicide soft doors that's gotta be a first!

Post by **Kinder** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:31 pm

D&D72 wrote:suicide soft doors that's gotta be a first!

Lol, I believe BSD is full of firsts, at least when all the changes are combined into one rig. Now when I finish my cut down suicide bronco doors with removable frames I may be stepping over the line.

Post by **Jesus_man** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:47 am

I found some similar handles at Layton truck shop in the 'Springs.

Post by **Kinder** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 6:47 am

Those look perfect.

Post by **Justin** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:33 pm

Hmmm, I wouldn't mind modifying my tube doors to accept something like that.

Post by **Eck** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:26 pm

Those door handles are Jeep Wrangler handles up until about 2006.

Post by **cravenbronco** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:49 pm

cool doors. What a good idea.

Post by **Kinder** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 9:46 am

Installed my aux tank, plumbed as a transfer tank since the diesel uses a return line like EFI. Now it's time to work out some sliders.

With over 20 gal on board my range should exceed 500 miles.

Post by **Jesus_man** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:42 am

I'm forgetting what the capacity of factory tanks are, but is that what you're using?

www.ColoradoClassicBroncos.com