my 69 bronco update 1/31/15

[mattyq17]

I agree looks much better

 

[jdmustang82]

hey guys got bored after work and climbed some snow banks lol had the urge to go off road lol

 

[mattyq17]

Looks like fun, gotta test those new tires out

 

[jdmustang82]

Looks like fun, gotta test those new tires out

heck yeah i do lol they have had alot of testing these last couple of weeks. they work great for only having 4/32 of tread left. boy do i wish they were new

 

[Unknown]

How about "Horse with no name"

 

[jdmustang82]

hey guys did another all day trail ride with a group of guys and here are the pic's from today, almost didn't make it had a axle bearing go out on me on Wednesday night but got that fixed in time. Pictures go from when i left this morning at 8:30 tell about 1 today
Enjoy

 

[jdmustang82]

hey guys been slow with the updates sense christmas so here's the run down. i just drove it all winter and pulled a lot of other trucks this winter. my favorite one was my boss got our 2500 hd plow truck stuck in a huge snow bank and i backed right up and pulled it out should of seen the look on his face.so now that its warmer out i have been working on small stuff. finally painted the grill and i bought some 32 mud tires.

i painted the grill on memorial day i think it turned out pretty well for being spray paint.

then i fixed the top part of the tailgate plane on welding in a new bottom piece tomorrow

 

[jdmustang82]

then i put the 32's on and love them

and then its ready for some body work for tomorrow

 

[jdmustang82]

hey guys more updates yeaterday i wint over to my parents house to use my dads plasma cutter and welder to fix a couple body mounts and build a front bumper for it

the steel i used was 1/4 inch c channel from a old work out bench dad had it in the barn for what ever we needed it for so i thought it would be a great bumper
this is the piece just mounted on the truck we were talking about just leaving it that way and put a safari seat up there lol.

and the final product

 

[sellitall]

Looks good!! I like the simple design of it. How did you mount it to the front frame horns?

 

[blamejane]

Wow great work, I'm impressed. Show me the tailgate when you get that repaired, I'd love to see how it turned out.

 

[jdmustang82]

Sellitall: The bumper is bolted in the same spots as the original. nothing fancy.

Blamejane: thank you i will i didn't get to it this weekend the metal i had was not long enough to do one patch so i have to get a bigger piece.

 

[jdmustang82]

hey guys just posting some pics i installed some off road light (50W hella 6.5" lights) haven't got a chance to test them but they are nice, had to blow off some steam after a rough week of work. so i took the bronco out for a nice ride thought the woods.

the lights

the spot where we play sometimes just me tonight thought

 

[jdmustang82]

Hey everyone finally have a updata after almost a year haha. i drove the bronco all of last winter and parked it at the begin of summer to start fixing some of the rust on the truck. tore the fenders off and found a mess of thing in the door pillers. somebody wanted to use lots of angle iron to keep the doors from falling off. So first was to dissasemble and add new metal!
here is the hack job work done


the new on the passanger side

 

[bigpitbull]

Nice!! Was replacing the inner fenders tough?

 

[jdmustang82]

Nice!! Was replacing the inner fenders tough?

it wasn't too bad a lot of cutting and fitting but it all came out good see below

 

[jdmustang82]

well guys here is the final product of a summer of working on it!

 

[jdmustang82]

well I haven't updated in awhile so I figured I would. I haven't been up to much with the bronco my mustang has been taking up most of my time due to racing it so the suspension has changed multiple times (pic Below) but this winter I have been trying to get little things done but am working on painting it white again, stupid me painted it black and I hate it now I loved it white! but first thing I did was modify the taillights due to the fact I don't like how dim they are. I changed the sockets to a newer design and added 2 instead of one.

 

[jdmustang82]

this is how I did the taillights I stated with the stock housings


and used a taillight harness out off a 2009 Chevy Silverado because I had a few hanging around at work which is a Chevy dealer haha, but the problem I had is they do BakeReversBrake instead of BBR which is what I needed so I rewired it


next I had to come up with a way to make the revers light not hit the lens so I modified the hole and to part epoxied it in like the other too but made it inset so the bulb would clear

and here is how it looked after all the work

and the clearance with the lens on

and here is the running light on much better seems how come it looks like the brake light is on