Finally starting my ‘66 U14 restoration

77Bronco636 · Apr 17, 2019

SLICK!!!!!! Looking great!!! Keep the pic's coming!!

broncobsession · Apr 17, 2019

I’ve never seen a frame painted like that but it makes sense...you can let gravity drip it into those crevices.

KFS35 · Apr 17, 2019

broncobsession said:
I’ve never seen a frame painted like that but it makes sense...you can let gravity drip it into those crevices.

I mainly did it so I could paint the top and bottom at once. I wanted to knock it all out today. I still need to hit the spring hangers once it’s laying horizontally again though.

KFS35 · Apr 17, 2019

Evolkid said:
Very cool. Mine was prob made pretty close to yours. Mines 820080. It’s in the range for late Feb 1966.

Wow, they are really close.

KFS35 · Apr 30, 2019

Making slow progress.

I finally heard from the machine shop; they’re going to have to bore it to clean up some taper and turn the crank. I’ve gotten most of the parts, so as soon as I get it back I can build up the engine.

Over the last week or so, I cleaned up most of the rest of the chassis parts and got them painted yesterday. The frame is done, and I got the rear axle bump stops and the crossmember back on today.

I also picked up some engine paint today, and sprayed the oil pan. It was pretty rusty, and is really thin in a few spots, but nothing rusted through.

I plan on tearing the axles down starting tomorrow. I think they will just need seals, gaskets and some paint.

77Bronco636 · Apr 30, 2019

I would find another oil pan before you install the motor. That one has some heavy pitting on it and they are hard to change once the motor is installed (have to jack the motor up to finagle the pan from around the cross member). Just a suggestion that may save you some time down the road.....
Making great progress!!!!!!!!!

okie4570 · Apr 30, 2019

Looking good, enjoy following along with the progress!!

sprdv1 · May 1, 2019

Some progress is better than none, for sure..

good work

KFS35 said:
Making slow progress.

I finally heard from the machine shop; they’re going to have to bore it to clean up some taper and turn the crank. I’ve gotten most of the parts, so as soon as I get it back I can build up the engine.

Over the last week or so, I cleaned up most of the rest of the chassis parts and got them painted yesterday. The frame is done, and I got the rear axle bump stops and the crossmember back on today.

I also picked up some engine paint today, and sprayed the oil pan. It was pretty rusty, and is really thin in a few spots, but nothing rusted through.

I plan on tearing the axles down starting tomorrow. I think they will just need seals, gaskets and some paint.

KFS35 · May 1, 2019

77Bronco636 said:
I would find another oil pan before you install the motor. That one has some heavy pitting on it and they are hard to change once the motor is installed (have to jack the motor up to finagle the pan from around the cross member). Just a suggestion that may save you some time down the road.....
Making great progress!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I’m not thrilled with how deep some of those pits are.

I’ve got a parts Bronco at my parents place in the UP, I’ll have to take a look at the pan on it when I’m up there this weekend. I need to take my trailer up there and drag it down here one of these days. I’ll probably do it sometime this summer. I’m not looking forward to it though, it’s a long drive.

KFS35 · May 1, 2019

No pics of today’s progress.

I started tearing down the front axle. Got the steering linkages off, and both brake drums pulled. Also got one of the hubs taken off. Not a ton of progress, got a late start. Everything is looking good so far.

c0astie31 · May 1, 2019

looks great

KFS35 · May 28, 2019

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been able to do a little bit, off and on.

I took the rear axle apart, cleaned, reassembled with new gaskets and seals, and painted it. Started doing the same with the front.

Everything was in good shape, except the u-joints in the front axles and the kingpin bearings. Of course, those are kind of expected with a fifty-plus year old vehicle.

Hopefully I can get the front axle finished up soon. The kingpin bearing kits are backordered. Once that’s done, I’ll get both axles back on and have a rolling chassis again.

Still waiting on all of the engine components back from the machine shop.

KFS35 · May 28, 2019

Today’s pics

KFS35 · Sep 20, 2019

Been a while since I’ve updated...

I’ve worked on it off and on this summer. Been lots of other stuff going on.

I now have a rolling chassis again. Finally got all the engine parts back from the machine shop a couple of months ago. They ended up boring it, and turning the crank. The engine is going back together, should have it assembled today, or next week sometime. Depending on how much other stuff I have do do.

KFS35 · Sep 20, 2019

I’ve done a little more to the chassis since I took those pics, apparently.

Gas tank is now in, and all of the brake lines are run.

broncorick · Nov 5, 2019

Looks good, just found your thread. Making good time on this. I have several '66's in the wings, speaking of which I see an aeronautical chart. I flew up to Beaver Island and Mackinac last week!

KFS35 · Dec 31, 2019

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this. Since the last update, I got the engine, transmission and transfer case back in the frame. Driveshafts got most of the u-joints replaced, I had forgotten how much I dislike those double cardan joints.

Christmas came to the shop a couple of days late, but it’s here. I drove up the Jeff’s today and picked up the body kit. Lots of work ahead now! Tons of parts and pieces to weld together.

KFS35 · Dec 31, 2019

Oops, apparently my contributor status expired. Got to renew so I can throw some pics up.

KFS35 · Dec 31, 2019

There we go.

The pile of boxes and sheet metal is the new tub. Couple of bonus pics of my parts donor. Hauled it down from the UP this summer.

77Bronco636 · Dec 31, 2019

Making great progress!!!
Not a bad looking parts donor truck coming from the UP!!

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