Spaggyroe's scratch built early Bronco build.

[spaggyroe]

In yesterday’s shipment of the day... I got this cooler from Derale. It’s going under the passenger seat area because I don’t have room up front for a reasonable sized cooler.

 

[spaggyroe]

This weekend, I spent some time building some body bracing and will be adding a loop to it so that I can pick it up with a cherry picker. The bracing should keep things from taco-ing without any sort of framework beneath the body.



I want to get going on prepping the bottom of the tub for epoxy primer.

 

[spaggyroe]

Bumpers showed up today so I stuck them on.

 

[spaggyroe]

And I also decided to drop the engine in. This sucker fought me every inch of the way. After I exhausted my supply of curse words (including all of the foreign ones) it finally decided to cooperate. Someone in Dearborn is a masochist, and designed the worlds most inaccessible flexplate bolts.

 

[spaggyroe]

It’s been a few days without an update. I’ve been spending a lot of time sanding / scotchbriting the bottom of the tub. It’s pretty boring and uneventful, but gotta be done.

I have been doing some mechanical work to break up that monotony. I bent, flared, etc my last piece of stainless brake line. I bought a tight radius 3/16” bender off amazon and it has helped immensely. I built a tubing straightener too which allowed me to just buy a roll of stainless tube. Worked out well.

 

[spaggyroe]

I picked up these inner fender shields from one of the bronco houses. This will give me a cavity inbetween thw inner and outer fender that I can use to run things like heater hoses, AC hoses, wiring, etc.

 

[spaggyroe]

And speaking of heater hoses... with the coyote engine, you can not block the coolant flow through the heater hoses. Doing so will overheat one of the heads and cause the engine to go into limp mode. To get around this, I got this H pipe from vintage air. It has to be installed prior to the heater control valve.


And I went ahead and snipped it in here.

 

[spaggyroe]

Today, the FedEx guy showed up with this.



It has the 3:1 low range gearset, mechanical shifters, mechanical speedo drive, 1350 rear yoke and 1310 front.

 

[spaggyroe]

And I threw it in

 

[spaggyroe]

It took a bit of messing around but I think I got the shifters sorted out.

 

[I Lean]

How does the tubing straightener work? Just shove the coiled tube through it, and it bends it back and forth until it succumbs to straightness?

 

[spaggyroe]

How does the tubing straightener work? Just shove the coiled tube through it, and it bends it back and forth until it succumbs to straightness?

Pretty much. One side is fixed and the other has some wing nuts that adjust the spacing of the rollers. Start loose, run the tubing back and fiorth a few times, tighten the wing nuts a little, repeat. There are commercial versions available but building one was cheap and easy.

 

[Coco]

succumbs to straightness?

That was my bands name in college...

 

[Herzog]

This build is goals. The quality is off the charts!

 

[UNSTUCK]

That was my bands name in college...

Did that have anything to do being too tired, but horny? I can relate.

 

[Destroyer]

Just read through the whole thread. Love it man. Keep up the good work!

 

[spaggyroe]

Just read through the whole thread. Love it man. Keep up the good work!

Thanks Phil, @Herzog, and everyone else. I appreciate your kindness and encouragement. 😎😎

 

[spaggyroe]

I need to be more consistent with updates. Work continues. The body is now totally stripped. I found the center of gravity and picked the body off the cart temporarily.

 

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[spaggyroe]

I finally got some backordered parts.

Ididit tilt column