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Early Bronco One Man Tub Swap

greatguy57078

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Bronco Guru
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Jul 15, 2006
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Wow! I may end up atempting to do the same, but it would not be my first choice. Very well done!
 

BUCKETOBOLTS

Bronco Guru
Joined
Oct 28, 2003
Messages
1,605
Loc.
Salisbury, NC
That's using your noggin. Though I believe if I tried that with my tub it would wad up like a beer can...time for some tubing...
 

weasel

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Joined
Apr 21, 2008
Messages
438
Loc.
Norfolk
I might off been crazy when I removed my body off the bronco. I had 2 bronco and was swapping the bodies. The 74 was pretty rotten and I had a 68 that was solid. Swapped the 68 on to the 74 frame. I just removed the tops, doors, hood, front fenders and the tail gate and used a cherry picker with a chain through the driver side to the seat belt mount for the front seats. What a balancing act that was. Just rolled the frames out from under the body and set the body on two saw horses so I could clean the 74 frame up. It sure was not the brightest way to do it and not the safes. The 68 body was hit in the front passenger side quarter panel before the swap; that is probably why the doors don't seal against the top well and the passenger side of the tail gate will unlatch when I hit a bump, or I tweaked the body when doing the swap. I sure didn't know what I was doing back then. This was way before I new your suppose to weld in a bunch of supports to keep the body straight. I sure was an idiot.
 

slcpunk

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Joined
Feb 4, 2006
Messages
419
Loc.
The WB, UTAH
I used an hf electric shop hoist chained to our carport roof support(like 4' heavy wall tube) it worked good I have pics I just need to get them off the cam and I will post them up.
 

slcpunk

Sr. Member
Joined
Feb 4, 2006
Messages
419
Loc.
The WB, UTAH
here is the setup I used

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eds66bronco

Bronco Guru
Joined
Aug 3, 2004
Messages
1,119
Loc.
Essex, Vermont
Nice, my body swap consisted of me, lots of 2x6's, a chainsaw and a big tree (don't ask), four bottle jacks and a whole lot of luck that i didn't die alone out in the barn.
 
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