71 Cali Bronco Build

[71 CA Bronco]

Progress

Made some progress.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

Motor Pics

Motor looked good. Re sealed everything and painted.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

Lowered coil packs about 1-1/2. I hope that will do the trick.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

More of coil packs.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

Front dress completed. Well almost.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

Anyone know where these go on a 5.0 explorer? Found in my bag of bolts and have no idea,

 

[71 CA Bronco]

It begins again

Well, I have not given up on this project. Not many of you know but we had the Thomas fire roll through our neighborhood December 2017. And that is why I have not posted since then. Bigger priorities! Most of the houses across our street and below us burned down. In all, 490 houses were lost between ours and the neighborhoods on each side of us. Most have still not rebuilt.

We were out of our house for almost a year. The yard burned up which included most of our fruit trees. We had some damage to the house but overall were very lucky.

In any case, we are back and I have started the Bronco project again. I didn't realize its been well over a year since my last post. I made significant progress but very little to show. Body work, sand primer, sand primer, sand primer, ect…

I'll try to post more pictures now than I 'm starting it up again. My goal is to be driving this Bronco to the next Wild Horses Round Up. I said it so I am committed now. ;D

 

[71 CA Bronco]

Apparently I'm not a contributor anymore. Need to fix that before I can post pictures of the progress.

 

[sprdv1]

Apparently I'm not a contributor anymore. Need to fix that before I can post pictures of the progress.

Definitely. we wanna see

 

[Justafordguy]

Dang man, I'm glad you guys made it through that fire.

Can't wait to see some progress pictures.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

OK got the contributor status. Next step I acid washed all the original metal and POR15 all original seams.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

First coat of primer and guide coat started.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

Second coat of primer. More sanding.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

Started seam sealing. BTW the tape on the frame is because every time I rolled the body dirt would wash out onto my work. Seems to have fixed the issue. Looking back I should have washed out the frame really well before body and paint work.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

More seam sealing.

 

[ntsqd]

Looking good!! Going to be too nice to get dirty.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

Worked on the cowl mod freeing up room for air conditioning.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

More cowl mods.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

Panel fitment. I made most panels with a cheapo harbor freight brake $60. The Z bend at top of cowl and bead rolling were done for $20 locally. I think it turned out pretty good for a rookie.

 

[71 CA Bronco]

Finished and ready for body work. More primer and sanding ahead.