new NW oregon guy

[Tye]

Hey everybody the names Tye. I live in tiny little Vernonia Or. I used to come around the site with the name Ricer55, but decided that was a stupid name for a wheeling site lol. And since I haven't posted in a loooong time I thought I ought to make a new name.

So I'm 21 and I work security at Intel Ronler acres out on the D1X site. I have seen a few poorboy stickers around too. I specifially remember a rig that always parked on the top of the RAP1 parking garage lol.

So I just recently got a Bronco II from a guy in Forest Grove for a raptor 660. I have lots of plans for this thing. It isn't pretty right now, and it probably never will be. It started life as an automatic but was converted to a 5 speed.

Living in Vernonia puts me around 20-30 minutes from browns camp so I plan on making loooooots of trips. Plus some sand lake runs and whatever else I can make.

I plan on doing a SAS in the front and upgrading to a stronger rear axle since it's currently sitting on a Dana 28 and the stock 7.5"?( i know its 7 something). It has a winch bumper on it currently that im gonna rework and add a winch to at some point. Gonna build a custom rear bumper and possibly a spare tire carrier. Gonna do plenty body trimming. It needs some new paint since it was very inconsistently rattle canned orange.

My cousin has a Ranger that has around 7" of lift that he is going to upgrade the axles on and he has a ford 8.8 and dana 30 that he is hopefully going to sell to me and the suspension along with it.

and now for a few pics.


My friend demanded that he painted the 01 since it's orange lol

[Buzzer]

Welcome back.. you know you can just go change your name..right?

[Tye]

No, no i didn't lol. I like a fresh start anyways.

[poorboy1]

welcome back

[scotts90ranger]

ah, I saw you on BII.org the other day, more people from this area on here...

seriously like the guys on BII.org said (along with me) going to the Dana 35 gives you the same outer U joints as a Dana 44 and stronger than a Dana 30... I can point you to the right free/cheap mods to get the most out of them and you can get them for $100 most of the time at the U pull it yard.

as your rig is it has potential, but I would recommend getting a working front axle before heading to browns camp

You were mentioning getting new/used front sheet metal, the front fenders could be pulled back to straightish without much work, mine were pushed in after I rolled it and it's now fairly straight.

[Tye]

I would go the d35 route but my cousin has the 30 already setup to basically swap right to my rig.
As far as fenders go, I'm probably gonna just gonna trim up.

and no worries I dont even have the 35's on the rig right now so I wont even be tempted to take it off pavement lol.

Here they are on my cousins Ranger. I am trying to get him to take it to the St. Helens hangover run or possibly a browns camp hangover run, I think these tires might have helped him decide lol.


And here's what the bii looks like lol

[junkyard dog]

welcome back