Tedster100
Chairman of the Bored
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Looking good, glad to see you got it out for a drive! Hoping to do the same with mine this weekend.
Some pics of it before i put it away for the winter. Got a porta-garage from harbor freight and its fits in there great!
How much was the porta-garage? I am thinking about something like that for mine.
Question for you going back abit on assy. of your front clip. When you welded the front core support to the inner fenders, tubs, supports etc.. How did you match and line up all the pieces before welding and knowing all the proper dimensions.
I bought 6 cheep small vise grips from walmart for like a buck each to hold everything together then screwed with sheet metal screws. Screw it all together then put it on your bronco in case you need adjustments. after all fenders, grill, hood and radiator are in place and you like where there at then disasemble and weld.
Pics of how i mounted a steel gate to the glass tub along with new cables instead of the rattle straps.
NOTE: These cables will NOT fit stock location. They are a few inches shorter than needed to reuse stock holes.
Great job on the tailgate. I have the same issue with mine needing the spacer too. I used a piece of round tube and welded a washer on each end. I may take them out and use your concept.
I thought of using tubing but a buddy of mine works in a machine shop and made these out of aluminum. probably took him 20 min to make (if id have paid someone to make them id expect to pay 40 bucks for the pair). I also thought of making some out of plate steel and bending them so in the end they looked stock, but too many what ifs going that route. The alum blocks i can have shaved down mm by mm until the tailgate is perfectly flush with the body.
I just wish the tubing there bolted to was thicker. hopefully my threads dont give out for a verry long time.
The glass stuff is ausome, but everything has to be custom made!
Hee hee I like ya tailgate but you just solved a issue with my custom one Im bout to build.....gonna blow ya mind
The ends need to be SS angle and not SS box tubin! thanks!