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1970 start to a restoration thread

harder93

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just bought her for 4000 no rust or bondo on the car no body damage at all it is a factory half cab with the full cab off a wagon installed

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rewiring the lights in the rear had to take the tailgate off to get to the license plate light

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blew up the 302 there so comes the 289 swap

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fresh rebuild all new parts including forged pistons picked up for 450

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new parts came!

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pulled the engine

hit up the swap meet and grabbed some parts for cheap
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just to get me by 20 bucks for all
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now the owner of 3 sets of fender flares all cost me 65 bucks
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picked for 30 bucks
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42 bucks for all

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and where im at on the swap

another pic of the bronco....
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cant figure out what the holes are for but they are stock

more updates coming soon im only 18 and on a jack in the box salary so i need to limit my spending a bit im already at 6000 on the project and have only had it a month
 

Hank_

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Looks like a great start. Nice job on the parts find. Keep the pics and progress coming.


Henry
 
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harder93

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woke up to snow this morning after a nice sunny day yesterday so progress may be slowed
 

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Looks like a good start to a nice Bronco! Keep the pics comming!!
 
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harder93

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finished up almost all of the swap today should be running tomorrow if i find time to work on it sucks not having a vehicle
 
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harder93

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gotta hook up the exhaust to the manifolds build the distributor put the fluids in and torque the rocker arms and put the valve covers on tomorrow to have it finished

finishing up the referb valve covers they are looking wicked

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and how the engine sits now

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harder93

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started putting fluids in today just find yet another setback the freeze plug leaked so we got that all replaced and it starts dumping snow and of course its sticking... wet nasty washington snow. still need to find time to get under the car and hook up the exhaust and put the starter back in for the second time and to tighten and align the rocker arms.


Wheres the sun at guys?
 

broncobsession

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I think those 2 squared off bumpers are from a 66, in which case worth way more than $20 :) can someone verify?
 
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harder93

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one is a piece of channel iron my gurlfriends dad used to make a bumper on his wheeler 20 years ago than got a better bumper and gave it to me for free the rest are stock bumpers one was free off a guy i know who sold his bronco and the two chrom ones i paid 20 bucks for at a local swap meet
 
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harder93

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Anyone know what the color of this bronco is? this is my dream bronco and im building mine based off of it just with my own twist and style got trim that i will be picking up for cheap off a good friend
 
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harder93

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thanks previous owner bondo'd the fender flares onto the car to cover the rivits so i started chipping away all of that last night hopefully all the engine work will go smoothly today. its been 1 step forward two steps back the whole build 5 trips to autozone in one day got to the point where there were telling me they would see me in twenty minutes.
 
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harder93

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Just a couple broncos within my group of friends. there is a few more

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the red one is 4 linked in the rear and on 35s

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ill get pics up of the others sometime

to pass time here thought i would show some previous vehicles..
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1985 f150 built 302 efi with auto and 6 inch lift has the explorer package extended cab long bed

and my first car
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1993 explorer thing could take some abuse
 
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harder93

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got the bronco started and all put together just need to adjust the carb and break in the cam
 
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