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Bronco Guru
Well, as many know, i built and installed a 71' 5.8L with trick flow intakes, 69 mach 1 heads, upgraded cam, etc into my bronco a couple y ears ago. After 2 years worth of tinkering and what-not with the computer, timing (i prob timed this motor over 200 times), summit racing 5.0L harness, i could never get it to run quite right. It would stumble above 2500 rpm, etc.
I finally had enough and my dad purchased a 52 ford truck that he wanted to put the motor in, so i sold it to him (he will go back to a carb setup). I purchased a 1991 Mustang 5.0L engine with about 75,000 miles on it. I took the intakes, heads, oil pain, etc off to inspect, and the engine looks great! No sludge build up, piston walls looked great (still had original x-honing marks on them, and compression checked out great too). So, i freshened it up, replaced head gaskets, oil cover gaskets, water pump (Flow kooler), oil pan gaskets, rear main seal (just in case while it was out), new torque converter, and rebuilt my C4 Transmission (finally).. So, all i'm waiting for is the transmission to get back together and put it back in..
While i had the engine out, i have been working on my extreme fabrication (used to be Complete Offroad) cage 'kit'. I've got it all tacked up, except for the seat mounts and harness tabs. Also wanted to add a horizontal brace on each side from the B to C Pillar/Hoops and a rear brace connected the rear hoop across the floor at the tailgate.. Also adding spreader bars to the rear cage area like the front.. so i had to order more 2" DOM and 1.5" DOM (for spreader and harness bar) form the local steel supply.
Anyways.. here's some photos.. hoping to get it put back together soon and get to the Duff/Windrock event in a couple weeks.. but it may not happen..
Ultimate goal is to get it done (including paint) by my wedding in March!!
Enjoy the photos.
I finally had enough and my dad purchased a 52 ford truck that he wanted to put the motor in, so i sold it to him (he will go back to a carb setup). I purchased a 1991 Mustang 5.0L engine with about 75,000 miles on it. I took the intakes, heads, oil pain, etc off to inspect, and the engine looks great! No sludge build up, piston walls looked great (still had original x-honing marks on them, and compression checked out great too). So, i freshened it up, replaced head gaskets, oil cover gaskets, water pump (Flow kooler), oil pan gaskets, rear main seal (just in case while it was out), new torque converter, and rebuilt my C4 Transmission (finally).. So, all i'm waiting for is the transmission to get back together and put it back in..
While i had the engine out, i have been working on my extreme fabrication (used to be Complete Offroad) cage 'kit'. I've got it all tacked up, except for the seat mounts and harness tabs. Also wanted to add a horizontal brace on each side from the B to C Pillar/Hoops and a rear brace connected the rear hoop across the floor at the tailgate.. Also adding spreader bars to the rear cage area like the front.. so i had to order more 2" DOM and 1.5" DOM (for spreader and harness bar) form the local steel supply.
Anyways.. here's some photos.. hoping to get it put back together soon and get to the Duff/Windrock event in a couple weeks.. but it may not happen..
Ultimate goal is to get it done (including paint) by my wedding in March!!
Enjoy the photos.
