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Finally got my e brake lines. Assembled the rears and walla, it appears the rubber lines at the MC have finally collapsed! Can's seem to bleed the rears and that's the only original part left.
I picked up a alum fan shroud from WH 4x4....it does NOT work with a 1" body lift. I don't care what their website says...aint happening. So welded some flat bar to the top and bottom of the radiator with a few studs and that prob is solved.
Made this bracket to replace a broken mount for exhaust and also add some support for the e brake passenger side.
Couldn't bring myself to drop 40 on a fancy new clutch rod for that 1" body lift so made my own. Drilled the clutch linkage to 1/2 and used a bronze bushing inbetween the yolk for the pin to ride on. Cut off one end that had been welded before at some point and put a fine thread on a few inches of what was left.
I'm gonna have to break down and buy the soft lines for the brakes and a new rear DS and then I can finally move on from this chapter. Onward!!!
K, Woods rear D shaft is in there and it is finally resting on the tires once again. Wouldn't start....aaaw sheet. Ditched some old fuel line and reworked the routing a bit and fired right up.
Ya know I got a new Ididit column sitting the basement for the CC. Wonder if it will fit....YUP! With modification of course.
Finding center so column is clocked correctly.
So long 78-79 bracket
Stolen bracket from original column and welded back on new column.
The wiring harness plug for column is really, really short so this will have to do. Kinda hate to have another joint but for now it's going to have to do.
looks a lill like what I did w/my '78 tilt to put it in the bronk. In order to get under some of the really low branches I flip dwn the windshield and now, s. wheel & highest point of the rig is the body (oe style seats too). I used this 1 as the ign key's still on the dash. Thnk 4 da pic!
Finished up the column and had a new borgeson shaft layin around so that went in too. Picked a auto trans up for a future swap and of course it was a flood victim. It's going to need a new front drum unless I can polish it but that casualty and a little minor rust removal is the major stuff.
if that's an AOD, no mistake. I gotta C4 on the floor I may put in for my daughter
(least parasitic of all autos) but if DC/NC hada AOD 4 U I'm a lill jelious (spelling)...
Looks like ur makin some progress, good luck as U go along.
Had a stupid moment during that trans teardown. All went well until I stripped one of the bolts holding the one way bearing at the rear. I finally decided to grind the head off and deal with removing the remaining stud later. Got out my die grinder and with a burr and ground it off. Right after I drove the bolt through the case I noticed that due to the fact that my hands were covered in t oil I had about a 100+ little metal slivers all over my hands and every time I'd wipe them with a rag I'd drive them bad boys into my skin. Spent the next half hour scraping them from in between my fingers. Only occasionally getting poked today by a straggler.................Pretty stupid huh?
thnx U 4 da tip.
Nother local garage - guy had 30, 40 yrs in & died
of brain cancer. Never wore gloves'n I think all those oil changes,
etc - he absorbed the stuff thru his skin. Its not a thing to do life long (will B a
pretty short 1) or U take PPP pretty serious: nitrile, goggle, face shield, blocks'n jigs
what ever's needed, at whatever wrk station. As 1ada guys on 1 ada sites sez: "B safe, B productive & Have Fun...
Have been working on wipers that now have a new motor and arms. Decided to give it a bit of a tune up. Replaced all the sparky stuff and she is running pretty darn good now. Definitely running rich but we'll get to that. Temp gauge and oil pressure pegged after a bit of idling so I think I'm going to mount another set under the hood just to check that out. PO didn't have operational gauges so who knows what's really happening.
Still need wheels and 4 tires that match but it's getting close to a little drive time around the fields to see how she behaves.
Pretty sure I have this one but to replace the pass side fresh air intake to heater box....the fender does have to come off correct?
U don't have the blk plastic venting that goes over the horozontal firewall (under the hood)? There is no hole-thru on pass side.
Or am I ina different area that U ask?
Bronco_66-77_Diagrams-exploded-views.pdf (220mb) Bronco_66-77_mpc-text.pdf (370mb) 73-79 Ford truck folks check this out also. Ford_Truck_1973-79_Illistrations.pdf (60mb) https://www.blueovaltruckparts.com/m...istrations.pdf
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