What have you done to your Bronco today? (v.2)

[mickphatmac]

This post should be titled... What has your Bronco done to you Today!!!???

My peeps on EBay are almost Literally giving these ΓÇ£Old Ford HornsΓÇ¥ away...this oneΓÇÖs in better shape than the 1st.

[mickphatmac]

Made the worm gear switch without a hitch... add a little paint... 4x4x2

[phyler]

Added a bit of paint. Pretty pleased with it. Single stage but I got it to cover nicely once I dropped to a 1.2 tip. Hope to do more next weekend.

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[mustangjonny84]

Did the rattle-can special on the top of my top. It's not pretty. I just wanted prettier and needed something to last until spring. Two cans of white primer and four (8 oz.) cans of Wimbledon White.

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[phyler]

Did the rattle-can special on the top of my top. It's not pretty. I just wanted prettier and needed something to last until spring. Two cans of white primer and four (8 oz.) cans of Wimbledon White.

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After:

Looks mo' betta for sure! I was surprised how good my wheels came out for rattle can.

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[Jesus_man]

Success in my book!

[cw72]

Went exploring!


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[Jesus_man]

Cool shot! Where is that?

[cw72]

Twin lakes area. Peek a boo gulch. Directly to the right of that photo was an old mineshaft. We think itΓÇÖs connected to Winfield.


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[Jesus_man]

I'll have to look that up! My family owns some mining claims in the area, so we've traversed a fair amount of those mountains, but I certainly don't recognize that area.

[mickphatmac]

Got the lower Radiator hose made.

[mickphatmac]

Fan (cravenbronco), radiator (cpldavis37), and shroud installed...

A Big thanks to all the members who are always giving me a hand!!!

[BOBS 2 68S]

So got back from hunting this week ( buddy got a deer ). The new motor in Red sucks! And I don't know why. It fell on it's face under a load or hill. Outside of Fairplay I found the distributor clamp was loose, just cranked in some more timing. It helped so in Poncha Springs I added some more timing. Better but still sucks, but left it alone until I got home.
On the way home it started running warmer and warmer and warmer. Water pump died, leaked out most of the coolant.
New water pump. Checked the timing no where near the timing mark. Put it back to my timing mark and pig city. Put it back where I had it while hunting. No idea what I did in the rebuild. Set cam at zero.
After after all my crying.
Red got a new water pump.

[ZOSO]

So got back from hunting this week ( buddy got a deer ). The new motor in Red sucks! And I don't know why. It fell on it's face under a load or hill. Outside of Fairplay I found the distributor clamp was loose, just cranked in some more timing. It helped so in Poncha Springs I added some more timing. Better but still sucks, but left it alone until I got home.
On the way home it started running warmer and warmer and warmer. Water pump died, leaked out most of the coolant.
New water pump. Checked the timing no where near the timing mark. Put it back to my timing mark and pig city. Put it back where I had it while hunting. No idea what I did in the rebuild. Set cam at zero.
After after all my crying.
Red got a new water pump.

Sounds like the distributor is off a tooth. But I know the feeling. My 351 is the same way. Put in a lot better parts this go around and bumped the compression and it runs worse than it did when it dropped the valve.

[BOBS 2 68S]

Dist off a tooth. Didn't think of that, it would start right up after all the other valve train problems. Maybe advance it a tooth?
I will take a "brave pill" and make a adjustment.

[ZOSO]

Dist off a tooth. Didn't think of that, it would start right up after all the other valve train problems. Maybe advance it a tooth?
I will take a "brave pill" and make a adjustment.

That's actually wouldn't make the timing marks on the balancer off. That would be timing chain.

[TOOLMAN]

Got my bumper project pretty much completed!

[Strike2]

Bumper looks Awesome!
The old school Coleman cooler is a nice touch.

[Jesus_man]

Y'know I think there is a market for a better performing "retro" cooler. Those old coolers are cool, but they just don't perform as well as some of the stuff out now.

[Eck]

Y'know I think there is a market for a better performing "retro" cooler. Those old coolers are cool, but they just don't perform as well as some of the stuff out now.

Jason- looks great. The function will be real nice to have.

JM- I agree! I have a steel belt Coleman and it works ΓÇ£okΓÇ¥ but my Yeti gets the nod every time I go anywhere with 1 cooler for how much better it works. When we were in Baja for our 11 day trip, I used my Yeti while some other guys had used the steel belt one because it looked cooler on the back of the truck (which I agree). They went through Ice 5X faster than I did. I have a buddy that works for Coleman corporate. Maybe IΓÇÖll see if theyΓÇÖd consider doing something retro looking with the performance of the new ones. Coleman has their own brand of high end professional coolers called Esky so it probably wouldnΓÇÖt be all that out there for them to do. At least maybe they can make me a prototype!!


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[Jesus_man]

Jason- looks great. The function will be real nice to have.

JM- I agree! I have a steel belt Coleman and it works ΓÇ£okΓÇ¥ but my Yeti gets the nod every time I go anywhere with 1 cooler for how much better it works. When we were in Baja for our 11 day trip, I used my Yeti while some other guys had used the steel belt one because it looked cooler on the back of the truck (which I agree). They went through Ice 5X faster than I did. I have a buddy that works for Coleman corporate. Maybe IΓÇÖll see if theyΓÇÖd consider doing something retro looking with the performance of the new ones. Coleman has their own brand of high end professional coolers called Esky so it probably wouldnΓÇÖt be all that out there for them to do. At least maybe they can make me a prototype!!


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You gotta cut me in on that deal holmes!

[mickphatmac]

After I got all this together as reported nine posts ago, I was obliged to steal or better yet copycat the suggestion from Viperwolf1 to BroncoRaider to substitute a trailblazer heavy duty clutch fan in lieu of the explorer fan clutch. I was also able to use the plastic fan, I did not have to use or purchase a metal fan for this application.

It moved the fan foreword at least an inch, if not more and now the fan isnΓÇÖt too good for its home!!!

Nice mod gentlemen! ThankYou:):):)

[mickphatmac]

I spent some time making ΓÇÿ79 parts play nice with ΓÇÿ68 parts and then when I got bored I had to mess with one of my fun projects... if itΓÇÖs unique, I got it! (or IΓÇÖm getting it)

I had to cut a little groove in the column support on the firewall so the automatic shift lever would go down into first, otherwise neutral was as far as it would go down.

ΓÇÿ79 tilt Automatic Column

[Rox Crusher]

love those rain window vents

[ZOSO]

Welded a few braces to the radius arms. Feel a lot more comfortable driving it now. Drove it the first time since the August trip. Will drive it to the Platte meet.

[crawlercreations]

Time to try out stickies. Found a great deal on some used krawler 39" stickies and stazworks double beadlocks. I'll throw them on the bronco for the harder trails and see how I like them. If they're as good as everyone says I'll likely sell them and the 40" mtrs on the bronco currently to buy new sticky krawlers to run full time.

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[Jesus_man]

Interested in your take! Sounds like stickies are the cat's meow!

[mickphatmac]

These are Not sticky, but they Are NEW!!!

Maybe get them mounted this weekend!?

[Jesus_man]

Those will look nioce!!!

[mickphatmac]

I got the three wheels that are the same size cleaned and painted, and I have 2 tires mounted and on the Bronco and the best tire from the previous set mounted as my spare...