Wow, I can't believe it's been almost a year since I've updated this thread. A lot has been going on which has kept me away but I have done a hand ful of things to the Bronco.
For starters, shortly after getting the engine running in January, I developed a severe leak form the rear main seal. Right as I discovered that, we decided to move and I didn't get it work on it for months. After we moved, I pulled the engine back out again and replaced the seal. So far so good there. With the engine out, I decided to go ahead and swap out the Xterra power steering box with the 4x4x2 I had on the shelve. I also swapped out the power steering lines with stainless steel ones. To round out that install, I added the PSC fluid resevoir.
With that done, I cleaned up the spark plug wires with cut to length MSD ones. I ordered some wire seperators but they haven't arrived yet so there are zip ties holding them together for now.
I got to test drive it a few miles and she's running great. Needs a little tweaking but it's getting there. The suspension was extremely soft though so I then replaced the shocks with Bilsteins. Keeping with the Impulse theme, I started looking at the Iditit columns and decided to throw that in with the shocks. Why not!!!
I always wanted those side steps on the rock skies and thanks to Duff's, I now have some. I still need to get them painted but not sure if I want to go body color or black.
While the Bronco was sitting, I had the front bumper powder coated glossy black to match the back bumper. Not just need to decide if I want to do the same with the rock skies.
Last for now, I cut the front fenders and installed the flares.
At this point I really need to get some miles on her and fine tune the EFI and 4r70w configurations together. Once I get that done, I'll start planning another paint job to get it back to one color again.
Until then, here are the pics. Again, lots of little clean up is still needed including tieing up some wires and stuff.
