My son's 85 Bronco (300IL6, 4spd) is badly rusted, mostly swiss cheese everywhere (at least one door ready to fall off), but frame looks solid. He also has a 85 F150 with a bad engine. Very tempting to try to make the F150 cab fit the Bronco frame, then add a small wood bed.

It looks like the 2 front cab bolts are in the same place on offsets from the frame, but on the F150, the rear bolts go straight to the frame, instead of the offsets used on the rear for the Bronco. It would be nice if the F150 cab would bolt straight to the Bronco frame, but it is hard to tell without committing to the project.

Has anyone done this? Recommendations?

Thanks!

 

As i recall its not a bolt on swap. But body mounts are easy to fab...I've seen this done a few times...

 

ive seen pictures of this before and i know of at least two members that are planning it. The one i saw had several feet cut out of the bronco frame and ran coils and a 4link instead of leaf but there was no mention for body mount location. Since you have both a few simple measurements should answer the question.

 

there's one on craigslist for sale. you might email him and see how he did it
1979 ford f150/bronco

 

1984 Ford Bronco - Custom Featured Vehicles - Four Wheeler Magazine

found the one i was talking about. look how short the hood is

 

Hey, ive got one of those, hehe

Youll only have to fab to body mounts, here are some pics
Before my 3/4 tons, last 2 are after

 

Nice.

What year(s) is it?

Were the mounts you made for the back? Did the front ones match up?

Is it street legal?

 

Another question. While both vehicles are 85's, the F150 was an automatic EFI 302, whereas the Bronco is IL6 300 4spd. It seems to me that while we can keep some of the F150 dash components, we'll need to move the wiring harness from the Bronco to the F150 cab. Is that right? If so, can you buy a new wiring harness? It would save stripping the Bronco down that far, and it would likely be a more reliable harness.
Thots?

 

92 f150 body, 87 bronco frame, bunch of other trucks

front 4 will match up, the only ones you will have to fab are the back 2

not street legal, its only a mud truck, i dont see why urs couldnt be

heres what mine looks like currently

 

how does the I6 pull those tsls? also what gear ratio are you running in your 3/4 ton stuff.

pretty cool truck

 

Do you know roughly the dimensions to fab for the back? The best I've seen is this pic with no dimensions, but he was also using a lift, which I don't think we'll do:



Without any welding equipment on hand, I figure we'll build some sort of wooden temporary model (probably starting with a 4x4 and build up) to get the dimensions right, then take that model to a welding shop. But it would be nice to have the dimensions up front...

 

i will be trying this too, as soon as the new shop is built except i am going to use a 77 on an 87 frame going for street legal but who knows

 

4:10s and g-low make it ok, still not enough ballz

as for the mounts, i will have to measure and take a pic

 

That would be great if you can do that.

 

How did she turn out. Thinking about the same thing