What we have here boys and girls is a fine example of my OCD, en form of me cleaning up this 3 owner 89 Bronco XLT. This fine piece of machinery shall here on be referred to as Blue.

She's pretty photogenic, so expect many pics.

Blue's Specs:

5.0 w/ auto tranny
Riding on 35s
Neighborhood alarm clock (read: no muffler)


Engine mods:

As of April 2012, none


Interior mods:

Full Pioneer speaker set, including 6x8's in the rear, 6 1/2's up front


Exterior mods:

Rigid Industries Dually D2 LED lights up front


Suspension mods:

3" body lift
2" (or 3) suspension lift
Trimmed front bumper

 

The day Blue made my driveway home



Blue with Betsy

 

I've been known to clean things. Blue was in dire need of some paint restoration.

A quick test area:

 

Like I said, photogenic.

 

And now we're up to pretty much current. Finally got Blue all buffed out, top is off for the summer.



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Out with the old...



In with the new!

 

Got some cleaning started on the top and parts related, since they're off of the truck.

 

Got the underside painted, I'm going to pull the shocks in favor for some new Ranchos.

 

Ordered some long tube headers tonight and also got some new speakers. Luckily, Walmart had the 6x8's I needed!

 

Damn Austin nice bronco, the paint looks great. And those 4x4 lights are crazy. Nice job

 

Thank you much!

 

How did you go about painting the underside? It looks great. I tried that a while ago and wasn't too satisfied with the results. I didn't do much prep though, and I live on dirt roads so it gets dirty super fast unless I drive 5mph.. (which I usually do now because its only like 1 mile of dirt roads to my driveway). I want to paint it again, maybe use so "sound dampening" paint stuff and see if it works.

 

I prepped by degreasing the frame with some concentrated cleaner. Had no rust to bother with. Then I hit it with some Rustoleum undercoating.

 

I'll probably do that sometime soon then too. I used Simple Green for a little bit, but started to get bored so I just started painting. The paints not falling off.. it just gets dirty so fast with my roads.. Yours looks great though!

 

I would love to paint my frame, but on top of the rust i got the original frame protective liner that for put on. Or about 1/5 if an inch of grimy crap... I would need a chisel to get it off, plus not having a nice car lift makes me not really want to do it...

 

I swear I saw that Bronco here in my town at Flash Gas Station about a month ago.