1st successful ride in a while!

[77broncodriver]

so today i did a few things to get the bronco ready for a 50 mile trip to the bay area today.

I started off by taking off the top and putting it away and put on the bikini top.

Then i added a 3rd seatbelt on the fold and tumble backseat so all 5 of us can squeeze in.

Lastly the worst part... Filling up the tank!

But once we left we all fit for the most part, the engine was running somewhat cool, 200 on the highway, fine but i would like it a bit lower maybe. and the trans temp went from 220 cruising with a cheep cooler to topping out today at 185 with an explorer cooler i added last week.

So far so good!

Then we made it to our relatives house which i was pretty happy with considering all the hassle ive had with the bronco in the last year.

we also made it back no problem later and went back to top off the tank after and found out with my gps that i did 14.7MPG that trip which really surprised me!

Overall it was successful, i did find out that with the headers and no heat sheild of anything i need some lizard skin or something so my dad doesnt burn his legs from the floor anymore but other than that it was a good day with the bronco!

Sorry for the long story but this was a first good trip in a while haha, hopefully more to come this summer.

Evan

 

[half cab]

Kool dood!! You forgot one simple thing...pix

Glad you had a good and safe ride and that mpg is pretty good as mine only gets about 10 mpg. maybe.

 

[bronconut73]

Excellent....I had a similar experience recently....well except that I had a huge tranny leak, only got about 11 miles per gallon and was by myself deep in the woods....ok maybe it wasn't "that" similar. I am jealous of your success eb brother.

 

[Unknown]

Nothing like a road trip in a EB, glad you had good ride. What grearing are you running?

 

[TwoDalesDad]

Thats how a bronco story should end....in all everyone had a great ride....Was there a sunset in the drive?.

 

[77broncodriver]

Kool dood!! You forgot one simple thing...pix

Glad you had a good and safe ride and that mpg is pretty good as mine only gets about 10 mpg. maybe.

someone has a pic of us, if i get it ill put it up

Nothing like a road trip in a EB, glad you had good ride. What grearing are you running?

I have 4.11s my rpm gauge stopped working but doing 70 it use to be around 2000ish

Thats how a bronco story should end....in all everyone had a great ride....Was there a sunset in the drive?.

come to think of it there was, still hot out on the drive home with the sunset, pretty good