95 F150 - Project Marilyn

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:28 pm

Rear tail light wiring harness. Trying to delete all of the flexloom and use sheathing as the protective cover.

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 1:37 pm

Wanted this posted so I could always have it:

RyanDS650X · Post by **RyanDS650X** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 2:09 pm

What's years is this good through?

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AussieRod · Post by **AussieRod** » Sat Dec 21, 2019 5:51 pm

RyanDS650X wrote:What's years is this good through?

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I'm guessing '96 OBD II, given the number of ECM pins.

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Sun Dec 22, 2019 2:19 am

My 95 truck and 96 bronco have 96 wiring and 96 OBDII computers. Posted this so if I lost my phone, or wanted my own easy to find reference material. I think I’m going to get these printed off and laminated so I have a hard copy reference.

Becks_Bronco · Post by **Becks_Bronco** » Mon Dec 23, 2019 10:47 am

VintageIronFab wrote:My 95 truck and 96 bronco have 96 wiring and 96 OBDII computers. Posted this so if I lost my phone, or wanted my own easy to find reference material. I think I’m going to get these printed off and laminated so I have a hard copy reference.

If you print some off in higher resolution, i would love to have a laminated copy.

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Mon Dec 23, 2019 4:58 pm

Door sill protectors made out of JY sills I’ve cut out, cut down, will finish in Linex and attach via some #10 SS buttonheads.

Becks_Bronco · Post by **Becks_Bronco** » Tue Dec 24, 2019 10:21 am

Nice! I've never even noticed that spot. I bought replacement plastic trim in billet aluminum. Hopefully they hold up.

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:08 pm

Got the door sill protectors aback from Linex and installed. It’s just nice to not feel like you’re crunching a painted surface when going in and out. Highly recommend this method!

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:40 pm

Needed a clean/convenient bracket to hold headsets. Made the bracket out of 1/4” aluminum mainly to keep it from looking spindly and really light in weight. Powdercoated to match of course and held down with a factory Ford light fitted with some LED’s. No obstruction with the view out back (without headsets of course) and is about 14-16” away from your head.

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:30 pm

New window sweep install fix—
New window sweeps are a nice update/upgrade/fix but the NOS ones don’t exist and they probably wouldn’t fit due to the 25 yo old door panel slots. So I got tired of them not fitting and just made a couple sporty oblong washers out of some scrap- stainless would be perfect and pop riveted them in place. Fits brand new tight and won’t come loose again!

Becks_Bronco · Post by **Becks_Bronco** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:01 pm

Awesome man! What dome light is that?

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:25 pm

I think is a Taurus maybe? An Explorer?? It won’t work on a Bronco but the F1 roofline works

zachwabbit · Post by **zachwabbit** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 11:35 pm

How you liking the 3-point seat belts so far?

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VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:45 pm

No idea really yet- they are a pita for a daily type use but in the dirt they are probably amazing but we shall see.

zachwabbit · Post by **zachwabbit** » Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:28 am

Ahh. Interesting, I may steal that idea from you for my B2 if it works out

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VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:21 am

So I got some actual seat time with the 3-point harnesses. So if I could get just a bit of refinement they would be seriously great! Like you are not about to go full cage or you have a Jeep and not full seats to the cage - these really hold you in the seat. If I could get PRP to look at them I think they would be interested in the design.

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:31 am

Finally installed all the inside can tie downs ---- no floating stuff inside the cab! These are from the 2000-ish Chevy Blazers (S-10 size); they are HD pieces that lhave a hole for a 3/8” bolt which is way big/strong enough for the application. The “washers” turned out pretty well and should give a nice secure backing no matter how aggressive the driving gets. All got powdercoated satin black lol!

Those are factory F150 jump seats btw.

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:01 am

So the first trip was to KOH 2020 and it went fairly well all in all! I pulled her off the trailer and the power steering pump immediately crapped out but I just kinda went with it. Met up with Andy J and some of his buddies -great guys and some killer broncos- and we immediately took off on about a 20 mile pavement drive and about 10-15 more miles in the dirt. Quite frankly the entire time I was terrified! Terrified that I just met these guys in person and I’m driving a truck I have zero time driving— ZERO! She never broke down, died, stalled or was even hard to start— super happy with everything! I was afraid the rearend was too wide for the bedsides but all turned out good and all the fiberglass proved out well! It’s a good feeling I don’t have to re-engineer all the things I’ve toiled over and sweated the details on all this time.