My 87 bronco II has rust, which ive gotten far enough through cut out the rust and to make out a good peice of sheet metal to cover the hole, and i drilled holes around the sheet metal for pop rivets to hold it in place. After that im bondoing it smooth..Do you think the ford dealership will have the color paint the truck has on it now i can match? It a red maroon color with tan on the bottom, two tone.

 

your best bet is to locate the factory paint code on your vehicle ID tag...take that number to a paint or automotive shop and they'll fix ya right up....it will be close,but maybe not identical as paint will fade and oxidize over time

 

yeh, my paints faded a little, maybe wax would help

 

A good waxing with a power buffer should help out alot I would bet

 

If your truck is faded, as I would expect on something of your vintage... lightly sand the entire vehicle with steel wool to scratch up the existing paint, take off the trim, lights, mirrors, tape the windows, and shoot the entire truck. It's fairly easy for an amatuer if you use a high volume, low pressure paint gun and an air compressor. I've used the smaller contractor 5 gallon type compressors before with no issues - just as long as you have a $15 water trap between the compressor and the paint gun.

I went through this with my crewcab last summer and posted pictures on another thread somewhere that I couldn't find, so I'll lobotomize yours instead

Welded on patch:


Primer:


Painted:


Not the greatest paintjob in the world, and actually I've done better. I only fixed the rust in the wheel wells (both sides) and was too lazy to bang out or fill the many dings, scrapes and minor creases all over the place.

In fact, it probably would look better if I buffed the paint afterwards, which I meant to do but never got around to it so it's slightly dull as compared to what it should be.

The white is actually an off-white, ford paint code "YY" and I found a local auto body shop supplier (well, 15 minutes away, that's fairly local) that mixed it for me while I waited, provided the other "stuff" to mix in when ready for use, for a cost of $88 with tax. Hardener, UV protectant, and some other stuff. I also picked up clearcoat but I never got around to spraying it because I didn't buff the paint like I said.

The only problem I have with this driveway paint job is the bed looks freshly painted - whereas the rest of the truck has a thick layer of greasy handprints. LMAO

Good luck!

 

88 bucks? sounds cool. I thought it was ALOT more....how much would black and lime green be to paint an entire vehicle?
(more black, not alot of limegreen, thinking of changeing the stock red-tan two tone to black and green)
with primer if its needed.

I thinks its a cood idea to paint my truck entirely anyway, i think you would agree if you took one look at my truck. I just got other things planed that costs $$$ so i think itll be red with spots of grey (bondo) for a while.

I gots my time to work on it though, wont be driving it for 2 years. I have the work to match it. Just bent my bumper from hitting a stump in my yard, (just learning the clutch thing...lol) thank god for gas tank skid plates!!! or else id need one of those too

 

well, the $88 bucks was just for enough paint to cover the bed twice. Not sure how much more it would be to paint an entire Bronco II, but I think I could fit your truck in the bed of mine

Kidding aside, wherever you get the paint from, tell them you have a Bronco II and how much of the vehicle (and how many coats) you want to spray, and they can size the containers appropriately.

Yeah, well, some of us have had um... er... not so shiny daily drivers over the years.

While leaving high school and while in college for several years, this was my daily driver, a 1969 Ford XL convertible. Mechanically it was absolutely perfect, as I replaced just about everything the first summer. The body, well, took many years to "get too" as I was in college and like most college students books was more important than car projects.



The passenger side I did cut off all the rust, weld on patch panels, skim with body filler and prime, and it sat that way for two more years. The driver side, well, looked like crap:



My g/f at the time, and eventual ex-wife, hated this car with a passion. My other vehicle was an F350 crewcab wtih 48" tires and about 20" of lift... and she was 4'11" so when we went anywhere we took the convertible, which was good because the truck was an absolute pig on gas (maybe 5-6 mpg). This convertible, once I did the engine, tranny and rear end over, I was typically getting around 15, which in 1986 wasn't too bad, unlike today.

Anyway, the point of this story is take your time and do it right, and don't worry about the appearance in the meantime. It's a project, right?

 

Aboslutely.

theres an 70's impala for sale near me, god i wanted that car. Talk about a beast!!! I want it just to have a tank of a car. And make fun of honda's...lol "

oh whats that, 2.0 liter 4 cylinder????, thats about the size of two out of my 8.0 liter v-8"

lol, but with the gas prices, ill had to stick with somthing small, like th 2.9 bronco i ended up with. With gas how its getting, im glad i have a v6 under 3.0(what am i saying????LOL) and even that may be hard to keep up with.

HVAC is a good job to get into though,which is what im doing when im 17. itll help with gas, maybe enough for me to get a v8

 

I had an '88 2.9L bronco II, manual everything, and the mileage wasn't really anything to write home about. If I remember correctly, I typically got around 15 on the highway, which is what my '93 F350 crewcab gets (more or less).

I had a 92 Explorer 4-door with a 4.0L (also manual everything) and that did better mileage wise, typically 17-18 on the highway. Locally, forget it, but I lived in a mountainous area at the time so it was uphill most of the time.

 

About 2 quarts for the black,along with the reducer and activator should get ya there with approximatley 3 good coats...black covers really well...as far as the lime green goes,depends on the particular shade...some are very transparent and can take alot to cover properly...black and beige look really well together as well in my opinion

 

mine is 20 mpg...i guess your wasnt running as good at it can. Alot of emmsions stuff can fail with little change in proformance but with huge hurt to mpg with this truck.

Mine is only manual transmission. the 4x4 and stuff is all auto. (never heard of power locks doing anything to gas mileage lol)

 

I also lived in a mountainous area, and did a little over the 65mph speed limit. The 4.0 of the explorer was a huge difference.

 

yeh, we do too. but im sure my dad didnt speed when he drove my truck over to the house.

Im droping a 4.0 in my bronco II once the 2.9 dies. With the lightness of the bronco II and that engine itll be even better.

 

Cool on the swap.

BTW, a 302 fits in the engine bay with minimal problems, and you can use several different transmissions to retain the 4x4. Then for future upgrades, youd have access to all the competitively priced 5.0 parts.

 

fits maybe, getting it mounted is another story. there alot of conversion stuff i need to buy and its just a mess. the 4.0 bolts right up. if i wanted i could use that same tranny. but im doing that too.