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Post by poorboy1 on May 5, 2014 22:54:51 GMT -5
You can see it anytime you want. I did the floor a little different than most would. I basically made teh whole truck a rigid unibody. Everything is tied together very solid. Should be zero frame or body flex. Only thing I should have done different is I should have removed the rear body bushings and replaced them with solid material. O'well it is what it is now. Just a sandlake basher rig.
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Post by Brennerbadboy on May 6, 2014 23:51:15 GMT -5
is it going to be ready for sb10???, what you got going on sun.?
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Post by poorboy1 on May 7, 2014 9:38:01 GMT -5
got mothersday stuff on sunday. As for summerbash as long as I dont lose focus it could be ready by then.
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Post by Brennerbadboy on May 7, 2014 15:19:50 GMT -5
forgot about sun. ....keep your focus ,I need a ride,were going to my daughters sat. to see her new house,talk to you later
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Post by poorboy1 on May 8, 2014 18:49:46 GMT -5
Had to move the alternator down to clear the radiator that has to be installed at an angle along with a cross over bar. Ended up making a new bracket and just flipping it upside down.
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Post by poorboy1 on May 10, 2014 21:08:26 GMT -5
Made a new coolant fitting for the manifold. The only radiator I have that will fit in the bronco has the wrong inlet and outlets so I have to cross over the coolant lines. I made this straight spout so I can put a rubber elbow on it and go to the passenger side. Also getting the core support and grill mount installed. Nothing fancy just tubes to hold the front clip on. Braiden helped bend some of the tubes.
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Post by cousinmike on May 10, 2014 21:39:15 GMT -5
Always fun when the little ones helpout.
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Post by poorboy1 on May 13, 2014 20:29:56 GMT -5
I thought was going to have to cut up and modify my headers into fender dump headers due to the close tolerances with everything. So I am close enough now that I try and fit the headers and what do ya know the darn things almost fit in stock form. The drivers side fit fine. In fact that saved me a bunch because now I can run a solid steering colum. Made that an easy fix. The passenger almost fit as it was but not quite. I had to notch a piece of the floor I just installed and had to cut the collector end off to keep it narrow. After getting the header on I decided it would be best if I cut part of the floor out I just put in to make routing easier. I have a new floor piece bent up so when the exhaust is done I will weld it on. Right side exhaust is routed to behind the tcase. Hard part is done the rest should go easier, i hope.
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Post by rabbit on May 13, 2014 21:51:21 GMT -5
This should be a really fun rig once it's done!!! Going to have a lot of ford guys coming up and saying that's the best running / sounding ford bronco they have seen in a while , then they will be going wtf when they find out its chevy powered
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Post by poorboy1 on May 13, 2014 22:32:12 GMT -5
Its as ass backwards as a bronco can get. Passenger side diff instead of left. Leaf spring front instead of coils, Chevy power instead of Ford, Rear air bagged 4link instead of leafs, &" shaved off of the bottom of the body instead of a lift, and when the paddles are on it then it is wider than it is long. lol.
It has quite the mix in its bloodline. 69 Bronco body, running gear from a 77 chevy, front leafs and tcase parts from a 74 dodge, rear airbags from a Cascadia steer axle, radiator from an Australian Argosy cabover, Steering shaft from a Freightliner FLD, air telescoping steer colum from a Freightliner Century, wheels for the paddles are VW wheels inverted, Seats were Mazdaspeed seats that I found in a Ford Probe(weird), When I'm done the hood will be mostly from an F150, exhaust is from a Cat engine after treatment.
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Post by backwardboggers on May 14, 2014 12:14:07 GMT -5
Holy Batman, what are you going to call it...lol.Very cool project..
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