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Dammit!!! that's a big bummer. Glad it wasn't worse.

That's the ultimate SUX ! sorry to hear that

Yes, thatΓÇÖs not cool, also glad it was slow speed.

This happened a few years ago at work. And my boss has retired and moved to Cal.


My boss came up after his lunch to tell me he backed into my car (not the bronco).
He had more damage to his truck bumper than the scratch and dent on my civic.

When you have been searching for what seems like forever for the right half cab top and you find one right here in your back yard (ok - 20 min away).



You load up and rush right over but the seller sends his teenage son to meet you instead of showing up himself. He wants waaaaayyy to much so you make an offer and tell the young man to have his dad call if he changes his mind. 30 min later, while you are eating lunch with the wife at the Tasty Treet, he sends a text and you agree to a price. You tell him you will be back there in 30 minutes to pick it up.

He says his son has left it will have to be tomorrow (Monday). Fine, you agree to be there at 3:30 with cash. You have a deal, and you think you are now the proud owner of a rusty, dented up half cab that will be perfect for your plans...

Then at 10:45 monday morning, while you are in a meeting you get a text....


Guy couldn't even wait an hour for a reply before he sold it out from underneath me.

Guess this just proves that there are flakes all over craigslist, both selling and buying.

The hunt continues....

What a D-Bag, especially since you actually came out to see it and made a deal. Hope his son doesn't follow in his footsteps.

thats terrible, but not surprised. You will find a better one for a better price!

That's crappy of them.

Craigslist people...

Ive put a few things up and luckily haven't been screwed over..

So here I am trying to install my new seats today. And what do you know. They don't fit with the factory lap belts. Well good thing I have already ordered shoulder belts. So I get those out and start to install those. As I'm drilling the cage tube the drill bit I'm using explodes(literally) into a bunch of pieces. It goes flying. Luckily I was not on the receiving end of the shrapnel. But my passenger door window was. A small piece of the drill flew across the bronco shattering the window. It all happened so fast.

Don't know how it didn't fall apart till later

ThatΓÇÖs not cool, super happy you didnΓÇÖt get bloody.

Dang Rob that do suck! Hope you source a replacement.

Reminds me of when I was a kid (10 or 11??) and my mom and I were playing catch outside. I threw a pop-fly to her and she reached across the back window of our sedan as far as she could and it was not to be. The ball just missed her glove and made a perfect baseball sized hole in the glass, which also shattered into a million pieces. It wasn't until hours later while at the dinner table, we see it fall entirely into the car. What a mess!

I might have a window for you if your in need. Let me know, I will grab it from storage.

That does sux! that drill bit just hit it perfect. Have you ever tried busting a glass out at a junk yard its not that easy.

Not Bronco related
but
Our 50 year old septic and leach field has failed, the leach field pipes have collapsed

Ordered a new intake manifold June 3rd. Removed the old manifold and prepped the engine. Get a notice manifold won't ship until June 20th. June 20th rolls around, get another notice backordered another month. July 20th rolls around, get notice again, backordered another month. Now scheduled to ship August 31st.


Meanwhile my diesel truck is in desperate need of new injectors and HPOP after 20+ years and 300K miles of service. I needed to get the Bronco back on the road so I had something to drive while fixing the diesel. Finally gave up on that plan and bit the bullet. Decided to super-prepare and knock the whole thing out in one weekend. I have been wrenching like a mad man this weekend trying to get it back together so I can go to work Monday. Thanks to multiple screwups on the sellers part, I had to wrench this weekend, so I missed our annual tradition of spending the day at the county fair.

In the meantime, I have missed all of camping season with the kids and I wasn't able to take the Bronco to the Longmont cruise night. (I hate you Edelbrock.) Wife's car was totalled in May (not her fault) We bought an Explorer and owned it all of 3 wks before it received $4500 worth of hail damage. (And the house needs a new roof too now)

Sorry for ing, but this has not been a stellar summer.

Dang digger! Hope it gets better from here. I had a similar summer when a drunk driver took out my bronco early one summer. Lost out on wheelin all summer.

whoops. guess .250wall 2in DOM tears like paper.....

That's .

That is what my lower links are. Did you split the tube to slid over radius arm brackets?

Jesus_man wrote:That is what my lower links are. Did you split the tube to slid over radius arm brackets?

Yes tube was split to slide in the ibeam of the original arms. It broke right at/after the split. Wasn't a weld failure or anything. The tubing was fatigued and just failed. I didn't hit anything on it or run into anything on that side. Only thing we did was do some winching off to the passenger side which could have done the arm in. Just a weak point that shouldn't have failed. There are probably 100's of radius arms built like this and zero issues. I'm not too worried about it. Bill/Molley welded it up and braced it when he got home.(he drove Molley so Linda could tow my bronco home). We were 1/2 mile in the start of chinamans when it broke. Took 2.5 hours to go that distance with it broken.

That's ! Glad you got it home anyway!

ZOSO wrote:whoops. guess .250wall 2in DOM tears like paper.....

WOW that is weird .250 wall DOM even splitting it shouldn't have done that? glad to hear it happen at low speed, after inspecting the break could you see any signs of early fatigue?

Maybe the welding heat made the tube brittle?

Well my browser just crashed after writing a ton. Appropriate for this thread.


Question on the radius arms: Do you know exactly what material grade and stress condition the tubing was? The most commonly available is 1020 SRA-DOM. (10=low alloy steel, 20=.20% carbon, SRA=stressed relieved)

It definitely broke at a stress concentration, so fatigue is likely to blame, but given the strength of that tubing and the fact I've been running the same setup for 11+ years, a defect in the material or process likely initiated the failure.

It happens:

http://www.norcalbroncos.com/forum/show ... (Lars-Bars)-fatigue-failure

In looking at the failure, I'm wondering if tapering and widening the top and bottom of the i-beam past the point of the notch would do a better job of spreading the load.

I'd just plate them at that point. I will likely order a set of duff's for the 74. Keep these lars bars for the 77 and just build 1 new one.