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you could lower the shock towers too. You shouldnt need to put a new steering column in. Youre just going to have to set your toe in alignment. You might have to take your steering wheel off and set it afterwards also. Any more than 2" and youll need a drop pitman arm off the steering box or a longer/adjustable drag link.
To lift the rear you can just flip the brackets that attatch the shackles to the frame, that will be good for about 2" of lift in the rear. Bust the sawzall out on the fender wells and youll get some monster tires under there.
Are you going to put any type of bed on the back?
To lift the rear you can just flip the brackets that attatch the shackles to the frame, that will be good for about 2" of lift in the rear. Bust the sawzall out on the fender wells and youll get some monster tires under there.
Are you going to put any type of bed on the back?
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Thanks for the info pud I will be lifting it after the inspection using your method,there are no fenders on the back off the truck so no worries there ,and the cab will get a lift as well. Don't know what size tire I will go with yet? My friends have pretty much convinced me to turn this rig into my every day driver but I am going to finish it as my sreet legal zero budget biuld first. MY every day bronco has been a real mule since I got it so I will limp it along till I can get the project insured and under my butt,then I will do it all again with mule,but this time I am thinking of a ex-tended cab instead of the normal cab.
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I do want to put some kind of a deck on it with a role cage of some sort's but don't realy have many ideas. I thought about shortening a stock box,I don't have any body experience at all but I think i can do it. I had good look with a measuring tape and I think I would only have to cut out a section from the wheel well forward then re-install the front wall of the box,real short box but a cool look I think? I will probably biuld a metal frame to recieve a wood deck and railings for now. It will all depend on if I can get materials free or barter for them. I am open to any ideas for the truck,and I love the input every-one gives in this thread.
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You wont fit an extended cab on a bronco frame without moving the rear axle back, or hacking into the extended cab portion. I measured a while back on my rigs, '90 bronco and '90 f150 ext cab shortbox, and ~10" would have to be cut into the ext cab for tire clearance to put it on a bronco frame.
I saw a few pics of one guys truck where he took a regular cab f350 with an 8' box and stuck an extended cab on it, then shortend the box. It looked really cool.
You can pull the box sides off the bed, shorten the bed floor and the box sides. Then rebuild it back into a box. The difference between getting it done and doing it nicely will be difficulty factor. To hack some metal around isnt hard, to make it look good is.
Get some more pics, I like frankenstein-esque projects.
I saw a few pics of one guys truck where he took a regular cab f350 with an 8' box and stuck an extended cab on it, then shortend the box. It looked really cool.
You can pull the box sides off the bed, shorten the bed floor and the box sides. Then rebuild it back into a box. The difference between getting it done and doing it nicely will be difficulty factor. To hack some metal around isnt hard, to make it look good is.
Get some more pics, I like frankenstein-esque projects.
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When do you plan on having it done? Where bout you takin this thing wheelin? And do you still have the coolant overflow tank off that F150? mines craked and starting to leak worse
Thanks, Jared
Thanks, Jared
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Hey I just relized that ,thats a bronco back half,hmmmmmm I have another bronco i may be chopping up?
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I think It would be easier to pull the box sides off and shorten them and the bed. As long as you can handle breaking spot welds. You would need to fab more to finish the box off if using the bronco back half. Well I would think, since there are door jambs, no front for the bed, and a heavy tailgate.
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well it might afterall be easier to turn the bronco back half into a box. I measured my bko against my f150, from the rear bumper forward to the wheel opening is about 8" longer (or was it 6"? i cant remember now) on the F150.
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