project tetanus build thread.

[sprdv1]

Double check the torque anyway. It’s something fairly light in the 12 to 15 pound range I believe. I’ll try to look it up later, but it’s worth checking.

PDT depends on the person. I bet most would get it right about in that range with a wrench. But I know some people that could literally twist one of those U-bolts into a pretzel with the same tool.

torque is always key for a lot of things

 

[sprdv1]

Per the old Chilton's book: The U-joint U-bolts are 10 to 17 ft/lbs.
The bolts for the CV/double-cardan head are 20 to 25 ft/lbs.

Looking at my Hayne's, I'm just glad that when I got started in this business I used Chilton's first!
They quote 90-110 lbs for the rear u-joint! And in one sentence they call the yoke a yoke, while in the diagrams they refer to it as a flange. Nothing like consistency...
They also list a u-joint to rear axle "adapter" whatever that is. But at least we know it gets torqued to 60-70lbs.

Either all of that is for a specialty shaft on a heavy truck, or it's in inch/pounds. Or it's just another of many typos...
So I'll stick to the Chilton's 10 - 17 lbs.

can't go wrong w/ some of those chilton books

 

[sprdv1]

I temporarily installed my new tom woods driveshaft from wild horses. in doing so I discovered that the yoke tab that holds the ujoint cap on is broken. most likely an effect of the failure not the cause but I will have to replace the yoke. not a problem I had planned to do that anyway. just eyeballing the driveline angle it looks pretty good to me. what do you all think? I think if I put 6 degree shims in there it will be too much. what do you think. I am not sure if I am measuring the angle properly. I got the two angle finders like I read I was supposed to use, but I am not sure I am using them correctly.

should be alright if by the book I'd think...

 

[mustanggarage]

well just like usual for me, things do not go as planned. I got my new pinion yoke in, this rearend has a solid spacer so at least I did not need to disassemble it and put a new crush sleeve in, however once I put the new yoke on, and put 6 degree shims from wild horses in, I put it back together, and then as you all pointed out my driveshaft is too long, it has no slip at all, this is a stock length driveshaft, the same length ordered as the one from toms broncos that I had in before, I have only a 1.5 inch lift on it, so a stock length should work, only it doesn't so anybody need a 33 1/2 inch tom woods extreme duty drive shaft that is scuffed up a bit but never installed? I ordered a custom one from wild horses I measured it and I need a 31.5 inch one. yes I measured it before I ordered the first time, but I just assumed I measured wrong so I ordered what I thought should be right,,,, and I was wrong. I do this stupid crap all the time lol. anyway I ordered my new shaft, and they will have to custom make it so who knows how long that will take. in the mean time I found more wonderful news, I bought a brand new 9 inch differential with 4.11 gears from national drivetrain and installed it. the lash was good, everything seemed fine. well tonight when I was putting it back in I noticed one of the maincap bolts didn't seem tight, so I checked, and all 4 were loose. I torqued them to 60 foot pounds before I put it back in, but that could have been a disaster. so tonight I got almost nothing accomplished. oh well if it were easy I would be done and then I would have nothing to do right smh.

 

[mustanggarage]

last weekend I installed the 6 degree shims that wild horses sells. I then installed the front bracket from james duff.

In order to put the bolt on bracket onto the diff side you have to pull the differential and remove 4 of the studs and replace them with longer ones. I did that at the same time I did the axle shims. it made that part easier at least. unfortunately when I went to install the differential I found that one of the ribs on the diff interfered with the duff bracket, so I massaged that a bit and bolted it in. I also replaced the pinion yoke. I bought this new differential from national drivetrain and it came without a yoke and with a solid spacer so I did not need to replace the crush bushing, just torque it to 225 foot pounds which is pretty easy with my Dad's 3/4 inch torque wrench.

painted it to make it pretty again. and installed the torque arm.

tonight I also got my new driveshaft. it is a tom woods extreme duty driveshaft and it is 31.5 inches working length. I checked the angle and it looks near perfect, I didn't get a picture of it, but it is best I can tell about 2 degrees down.

now I will have to wait until spring I suppose, we have a ton of ice and snow and gravel and salt all over the roads right now. I don't care to get the bronco out in that, and the bikini top is a bit breezy this time of year.

 

[mustanggarage]

a friend of mine just got the first new bronco in my home town. I had to sneak a pic with my classic. the weather was so nice this weekend I took the bronco for a pretty long shakedown cruise. the first time I have had a chance to drive it since the ujoint debacle. it seemed to handle just fine. no weird noises or anything. looking forward to putting some miles on it this summer.

 

[mustanggarage]

I decided to add a set of special decor stripes to the bronco. I had been wanting some kind of accent for it but finally decided on the silver stripe to match the ford letters on the tailgate. I had a friend who is an expert model car builder come over to help me put them on. it helped a ton to have a couple extra pairs of hands. he brought his son along to help. anyway we got them on after a whole lot of anxiety and some mild profanity along the way. No, its not a perfect job, but it looks pretty good from even just a few feet away, so I am happy.

 

[.94 OR]

That does a nice job of breaking up the single color without being gawdy.

 

[Shimmy]

she's looking fantastic!

 

[TheVazha]

Dude the stripes look amazing, great addition.

Also your gauges, can you share more info on them?


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[mustanggarage]

Dude the stripes look amazing, great addition.

Also your gauges, can you share more info on them?


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thanks. the gauges are from speedhut. they have a website where you can basically design your own gauges. so these are custom one off gauges for an off the shelf price. basically the same cost as a similar set of autometer gauges. they are in a custom made dash made by Double D fab Dan Dilner. here is a link to my dash page. https://classicbroncos.com/forums/threads/tetanus-dash-thread.307393/#post-3343990

 

[mustanggarage]

I added the wild horses air dam tool tray

Then we took it out to Wisconsin.
we had had a great time at Wisconsin Dells at the super celebration. Thanks to all the people responsible for putting this together.

 

[mustanggarage]

we had our local car show on saturday. I had my 65 mustang, and my daughters 67 mustang and my bronco in it. we did well, brought home 3 trophys. there were over 200 really nice cars there. I wish I would have taken more pictures, but it was really hot lol so we stayed under the tent most of the time when we weren't talking to people about the cars.

 

[BronCowie]

Dang dude... start making more shelf space for trophies.

 

[sprdv1]

Dang dude... start making more shelf space for trophies.

No doubt.. love it. Love that shot with the 6 gen bronco too

 

[mustanggarage]

No doubt.. love it. Love that shot with the 6 gen bronco too

if I ever get one I will. I have it ordered so hopefully early next year its looking like at this point.

 

[mustanggarage]

if I ever get one I will. I have it ordered so hopefully early next year its looking like at this point.

No doubt.. love it. Love that shot with the 6 gen bronco too

I misread that post lol. anyway I just heard on Friday, I have a build date for my 2022 2 door badlands. it should go into production the week of october 17th. of course having read all the horror stories since the introduction, I won't be holding my breath. but at least it looks like I will be getting it this year!!

 

[mustanggarage]

It arrived last night. of course it is freezing rain out all night since I got it so I haven't gotten a chance to get any good pictures next to my classic bronco yet, but here are a few inside the garage pics first thing I did was put the mudflaps on, I hear these things are terrible at flinging stones. I am looking forward to testing it out and learning all its querks.

 

[Yeller]

Looks great!

 

[DirtDonk]

Indeed it does!
Anyone read/seen a specification on turning circle for these things? I wonder how they compare?

Paul