Jake Good's Bronco Rebuild

fdezone · Jan 31, 2012

Jake, you've been stringing us along you sandbagging bleepidy-bleep! :-X I demand updated pics!

You're waaaaaaay ahead of what these "current" pics portray. Your rig's looking SICK!

Tons of great ideas. :-*

Cut-n-paste those updates over to here where they belong - not buried in a "General 4x4 Discussion." Who does that?

INPHOBIC · Jan 31, 2012

Thanks guys! I have done body work a long time ago and it wasn't very good. I am really pleased how it's turning out.
Jake

INPHOBIC · Jan 31, 2012

fdezone said:
Jake, you've been stringing us along you sandbagging bleepidy-bleep! :-X I demand updated pics! You're waaaaaaay ahead of what these "current" pics portray. Your rig's looking SICK! Tons of great ideas. :-*

Cut-n-paste those updates over to here where they belong - not buried in a "General 4x4 Discussion." Who does that?

LOL! you guys are getting caught up real fast! ;D faster than I can work anyways!

INPHOBIC · Jan 31, 2012

Ok so how about some battery box progress... LOL!

One other thing I have been working on is the battery box. I am really excited to have pulled this one off. Now I just need to start on the fun part of building a hold down for the battery. I've got a couple of ideas in my head of what I want so I am excited to see what actually comes out in steel!

sprdv1 · Jan 31, 2012

Nice battery box brother man..

DuctTape · Jan 31, 2012

sprdv1 said:
Nice battery box brother man..

Ditto, very cool.

markperry · Jan 31, 2012

That is sweeeeeet

mattyq17 · Feb 1, 2012

Awesome work I really like the battery box

INPHOBIC · Feb 1, 2012

Thanks guys here is how the battery hold down turned out.
I still want to trim away some of the strap width in between the side posts. Just in case a terminal was to come loose or something weird I'd like to have a little more margin of error. The strap started as a Artec design but I also kept trimming it back to get it away from the top posts as well.

First is the nuts that I made to weld on the inside of the firewall.

mattyq17 · Feb 1, 2012

Turned out good!

INPHOBIC · Feb 3, 2012

I didn't like how the explorer accessories were placed. The power steering pump was too high and I wanted to run my same P-pump. So I want to lower my power steering pump and make a new bracket for it. Also my internet research said the ford A/C Compressor was a terrible on board air compressor. So I went looking for a Sanden compressor.

Here is my first mock up of the accessories.

INPHOBIC · Feb 3, 2012

I tried to put some of that on paper to see how I can make it work. A couple of bent plates to mount the A/C and Alternator. Then the shaded piece will be a plate bolted to the engine. that will be some what boxed in to tie the upper and lower plates together.

INPHOBIC · Feb 3, 2012

So a little more brain storming. Looking at difference between the factory idler pulley and the A/C Compressor down low. Not much difference really. With the passenger side of the motor brackets back on there I seemed to like the factory layout all of a sudden.

I then started to look at mocking up the power steering where the factory A/C compressor used to be and moving the sanden A/C compressor on top where the explorer P\S pump was mounted.

INPHOBIC · Feb 7, 2012

Made a little progress with A/C and power steering. I ended up using the factory brackets instead of fabricating all new ones. I bought a new serpentine pulley for the P-Pump from PSC and then made a bracket to bolt where the A/C compressor mounted on the explorer bracket.

Then I cut the Explorer power steering mounts off and had a plate welded on in it's place to mount the Sanden air compressor. It clears the hood after I removed the brace. I will hold off before I finalize everything 100% because I'd like to find a fiberglass hood. Which may require me to lower the A/C a bit more.

INPHOBIC · Feb 7, 2012

I needed to get the hood mocked up to test fit the A/C compressor so I figured it would be a good time to get the hood and grill narrowed.

I planned ahead on the grill and thought I had a solid plan. It almost worked!
Not sure what I am going to do yet to keep the "FORD" centered and match the verticals up.

lilthom · Feb 7, 2012

Jake, I am looking at that FORD in the grill and wondering how it would look to shave off all the cut off vertical pieces and leave it just like that. It would make that section kinda weak but other than an occasional rock and the wind it never gets any pressure on it. Just my 2 cents while I am starting my day.

beaux312 · Feb 7, 2012

That suckar is lookin good

INPHOBIC · Feb 7, 2012

lilthom said:
Jake, I am looking at that FORD in the grill and wondering how it would look to shave off all the cut off vertical pieces and leave it just like that. It would make that section kinda weak but other than an occasional rock and the wind it never gets any pressure on it. Just my 2 cents while I am starting my day.

Hell it's hidden pretty good behind the winch anyways.. %) Unless someone comes up with a good solution I will just guess and say mine will be very labor intensive and rediculous!

fdezone · Feb 15, 2012

INPHOBIC said:
... I will just guess and say mine will be very labor intensive and rediculous!

No kidding! You make the difficult things look easy and the easy things difficult! ;D Awesome build! Everything you design/build is a surprise!

INPHOBIC · Feb 15, 2012

fdezone said:
No kidding! You make the difficult things look easy and the easy things difficult! ;D Awesome build! Everything you design/build is a surprise!

amen to that!
Jake

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