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Some more updates.... I made a new, wider fuel tank strap to replace the old mangled strap and installed the tank. Then I had to clean things up and move all the junk out of the bay behind the paint booth area so I could push the Bronco back there in order to free up the booth to paint the...

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Missed a whole weekend so trying to play catch up now. Let's see... spent some time tinkering with the steering column, rebuilt the gas pedal assembly with new pedal and components then installed it. Worked on fitting the radiator and fan shroud. Fan to shroud clearance was close, required...

Tom, back when I installed that tank I don't believe that I was tasked with installing the filler hose or any of the lines, and I noticed on your other thread that the filler hose was on your list of items to get. Well, if it has indeed been sitting with an open filler neck inside the barn for...

Installed the heater box and the front dress on the engine. The heater box had a broken mounting stud, so to fix it I ground it down and drilled and tapped it, then threaded a bolt in with some JB weld and cut the head off. Cleaned the box up, gave it a little paint and bolted it in place. The...

Bolted the pedal box in along with the hydro boost/master cylinder assembly. Had to play around with shimming the bottom away from the bracket in order to clear the inner fender well due to the downward angle of this tub's firewall as compared to a factory tub. Also installed the throttle bell...

And after the rinse a blow dry and a quick wipe down before pushing her back inside.

We had some nice weather here today so I pushed it outside to rinse all the dust off before I start bolting bits and pieces back on. The sun poked out from behind the clouds at that moment so I took the opportunity to capture some of that sparkle.

More little bits... So this tub does not have provisions built in for the upper pedal box mounting bolts, it just utilizes bolts through the cowl. Well, the previous builder had just made use of a crude strap, so I figured I'd make something a little thicker and larger to spread the load out...

And with that done it was on to other tasks. First off I gave my blast cabinet a much needed rehab and tune up.... full clean out, new gloves, consumables, media and viewing glass protector as well as a refresh of the vac system. Also cleaned out the small paint booth and replaced the filter...

Ok, some quick updates, right around tasker's visit I was working on fixing a few blemishes in the finish. While wet sanding to six the blemishes I ended up going through the yellow in a few spots, oops. Hard to tell in these pics compared to the light reflections but the spots are located in...

Or other people that may have worked on it too......:cool:😁 Congrats, will be following along for the updates. On pages one and three of my thread here there's some more pictures of it from when I had it in to do some work on it for fatboy.

And here's how she's looking now after the post paint work.

Been busy cutting and buffing the clear, that's done but I have a couple spots to fix before I roll it out of the booth area to make space to finish painting the other parts. Here's a comparison of the paint surface before and after the wet sanding and buffing/polishing process. Also, the...

Jim, I've been making an explorer coil pack mounting bracket for several years now, originally designed around your saginaw power steering pump bracket kit. I took advantage of that extra space and made it sit down in there nice and low. Then had some others interested in utilizing it with the...

She is bright! pulled the rest of the masking off.

Wow, all these yellow broncos….got me thinking maybe I need to paint one of my own yellow now😀

Can't wait to see it sparkle in the sun light, here's a few close ups under the camera flash trying to show the pearl.

Did someone order some yellow pearl?... Been a busy few days, filling imperfections, more sanding, more primer, more sanding..... Well, before we get to it let's take a look back at this project where it was exactly one year ago today: And now as of tonight:

Finally... although it's not yellow yet, it's nice to see it all one color.😁 The fiberglass and gel coat on that old tub sure ain't the best, lots of pinholes, odd ball checking marks and other imperfections, but the white primer helps show all that I missed that were difficult to see on the...