1986 bronco

towerace1
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Re: 1986 bronco

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Ok so now I have the bronco running well, I had to replace the fuel injectors and now its not flooding its self! So I am going to take the bronco to my fab guys house and we are going to prep and paint the beast. I am thinking of going all red with a black top, black rims and black bumpers. I will also keep the grill and headlight covers black as well. What do you think about that? The other thing I am going to do is pull all of my nice stock rear panels and replace them with aluminum ones. Has anyone done this? If so show me some pics please. And last but not laest I have decided to (sorry scott) extend the beams and axels 4'' over per side. I want the extra track width and more travel. I will also be adding the deavers, shackels and rear shocks in. I will post some pics has things start to happen. Let me know if there is anything I should stay away from.
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its all good man,just make sure you extend the truss as well. let me know if you need help.
if you want we can work out a trade-in......:) im bored!!
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So I decided to paint the bronco all white before we extend the beams. So here is some pics.
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lookin good, but you forgot to mask the tail lights haha
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Thanks, ya I know Im gonna have a lot of over spray to cleen up :lol:
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Finished wet sanding the bronco! Here she is still have to do the top though!
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ha you gonna clean up the windshield too? lol
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Ya it is clean now, I hate to paint. I will paint the whole thing another color when I put some glass on the rear.
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So I have some info for all of you guy's. When you are done tuning your motor dont just jump in and go with out your hood pins!!
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Its really not that bad and we can fix it fairly easy, but the wiper cowl will need replaced. At 50mph the hood acts like a sail!
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that almost happened to my the other day....about 20 miles from.i caght it just in time.
that sucks man i feel your pain!
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Re: 1986 bronco

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Sorry to hear that. Been there, done that in my old exploder... Not as much damage as you had but it still sucked!
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Been there done that about 2 months ago. My bad luck though, it waisted my steel hood, cowl piece, and my windshield. New motor and I got to happy with the go fast pedal, and BAM!!!!! I feel you pain.
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Ya it sux but the good news is that I am already considering replacing the crappy perrys glass with some nice new fiberwerx stuff. It will be a while though.
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AYE-CHIHUAHUA Coyote....... u need a safety latch or cable. :o

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towerace1 wrote:Ya it sux but the good news is that I am already considering replacing the crappy perrys glass with some crappy fiberwerx stuff. It will be a while though.
fixed that for you ;)
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Your right it is all crappy! But at least the fiberwerx stuff looks cool. I am personally not a fan of the stock looking glass. That's why I bought the perrys stuff. But his molds are s@&$, and the glass is too thin. I had a better experience with fiberwerx stuff on my ranger.
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towerace1 wrote:Your right it is all crappy! But at least the fiberwerx stuff looks cool. I am personally not a fan of the stock looking glass. That's why I bought the perrys stuff. But his molds are s@&$, and the glass is too thin. I had a better experience with fiberwerx stuff on my ranger.
You do know that the McNeils all use the same molds, right?
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and the same lack of care in building/designing them ;)

Good luck with Fiberwerx - you'll need it hahahaha
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Re: 1986 bronco

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So my steering was a sloppy mess and the factory wheel bothered me. I went down to fodrall offroad and got a sweet quick release and adaptor and a wheel. Here it is installed. We did it last night, it is a lot better feel...
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So after getting tired of screaming to talk to my passenger I decided to copy an Idea I saw on here and cover the bronco in the fake home depot dynamat roofing crap. I did the entire cab, cargo area, door panels, rear panels and tailgate. It made the bronco 10x quiter, also the carpet when I bought the bronco was torn and dirty and stained. So I decided to add new carpet and got some rubber bottomed marine carpet. We layed that on top and that made the bronco even more quite. Then we decided to remove the stock rear panels and build new one that cover the wheel wells and will give me a place to hide the battery and mount speakers securly. We are going to add lockable panels to then that will allow me to hide a tow rope and tools and spare parts with out taking up any other cargo room. Here are some mock up pics they are not done yet!
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