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Scoop's 72 Patina Build

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I got the child restraint points installed today to make sure my son and DIL will let the grand kids ride in the Bronco! LEBC Round Up prep!

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Scoop said:
I got the child restraint points installed today to make sure my son and DIL will let the grand kids ride in the Bronco! LEBC Round Up prep!
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I'll take one plz.
Gonna need that soon. Also, I think when I started designing something similar I wasn't sure that the standard straps on the seats would reach down/back that for for the side ones?
Or are you planning to use a three point and this is just a point for the center hook?

Also figuring you measured the standard thickness of the loops to match the welded rings?
 
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JaxLax said:
I'll take one plz.
Gonna need that soon. Also, I think when I started designing something similar I wasn't sure that the standard straps on the seats would reach down/back that for for the side ones?
Or are you planning to use a three point and this is just a point for the center hook?

Also figuring you measured the standard thickness of the loops to match the welded rings?
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I have a similar set up in my crawler and it worked fine for the car seat they had a year or so ago. They have a new bigger one now. I’m assuming it will work too. We’re going to try it this weekend before the Round Up. Yes, planning to use it as a 3 point connection. And, yes, I chose the rings as close to the thickness of standard loops as I could. The 1 1/2” ID rings from Tractor Supply matched well.
 
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I have a similar set up in my crawler and it worked fine for the car seat they had a year or so ago. They have a new bigger one now. I’m assuming it will work too. We’re going to try it this weekend before the Round Up. Yes, planning to use it as a 3 point connection. And, yes, I chose the rings as close to the thickness of standard loops as I could. The 1 1/2” ID rings from Tractor Supply matched well.
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Do you have any drawings or is it some plate with welded half rings?
How much for shipping? ;)
 
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Prizefighter said:
I love this build.
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Thanks!

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Do you have any drawings or is it some plate with welded half rings?
How much for shipping? ;)
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No drawings. It's an angle iron with welded on rings. Let me see if this works with the new car seat - you've got me questioning whether it works with the side straps! I may have to modify it some.
 
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We tested the car seats today and everything worked well. The side straps for the smaller car seat had plenty of length to reach down to the connection loops.

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And the bigger car seat for the 7 yo needs a shoulder harness so he goes in the front passenger seat!

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Also got the media player head unit installed in the dash. It's not fully hooked up yet.

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No tunes yet, but at least I don't have a hole in the dash anymore!!
 
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After a break to go to Big Bend I'm back on the Patina Bronco! I got the tire carrier and Ranch Hand bracket installed. I refurbished the tail gate latch but need to fix the tail gate before I reinstall it.

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I had to use a 1 inch space to hold the rack off the flare when it's in the Ranch Hand position.

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I'm still looking for the tire mounting hardware to actually hang a tire on it!

I also worked on refurbishing the stock steering wheel I picked up from BC Broncos. It was in poor shape with some cracks at the base of the spokes - but it was still the best out of a bunch I looked at!

I filled the cracks with a paintable silicone caulk, used black primer and then painted it in VHT "Black Pearl" paint. I then satin clear coated it.

Here it is cleaned up and ready for prime.

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Painted and clear coated.

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Next up I need to paint the steering column and mount the refurbished steering wheel.
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Gary in one of the previous pictures of the steering wheel it had tape on it. Was the tape over a section that needed repair (I'm interested in the details on that if so) or was the tape there to help identify "straight" in the event you were in a situation where your drifting around corners?

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Back in Texas and back working on the Patina Bronco! I'm trying to get it ready for the Bronco show at Homestead Raceway this Sunday. To make it (actually driving it to Houston and then trailering it to Miami/Homestead), I needed to replace the clutch and throw out bearing. So I pulled the engine last week and detailed it before installing the new clutch kit. While I was at it I installed some double pulleys and mounted the power steering pump. Still need to have the box rebuilt before I swap it in.

Here it is being pulled and now ready to go back in all detailed and pretty!! ;D
 

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Thought I’d do a quick update to this thread. First I want to document this with a couple pics of Patina Bronco doing some parade laps on Homestead Miami Raceway.

And second, I installed some LED headlights today. I went with some halo lights just for fun! They installed easy. Had to wire up a switch for the halos.
 

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Scoop said:
Thought I’d do a quick update to this thread. First I want to document this with a couple pics of Patina Bronco doing some parade laps on Homestead Miami Raceway.

And second, I installed some LED headlights today. I went with some halo lights just for fun! They installed easy. Had to wire up a switch for the halos.
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What a great opportunity and showing. Great post Gary.
 
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Added some Pyle wakeboard speakers to the rear. They fit nicely on the repro Stroppe roll bar down legs. They sound pretty good too!
 

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Sporting some Holiday Cheer!
 

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Looking good Santa! I see you updated your exhaust and it is now exiting before the rear wheel instead of after. I just put a hard top on mine for the first time in years and was curious how you like the exhaust routing? Mine currently dumps just before the gas tank and is not bad but could be better.
 
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