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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 10:33 AM
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Just joined, looks like a nice site. figured id post some pics of my bronco








95' bronco, custom built 14" suspension lift, no body lift, 6 fox racing shox, 351, msd ignition, distrubutor, taylor 409 wires, k&n cold air kit, puttin kooks long tubes on her next week, thanks for looking!
 
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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 12:56 PM
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Welcome,
Nice truck. You got alot of work in it. One thing I noticed, your track bar and drag link are at differnt angles. (bumpsteer) You might want to do a tierod flip. It would help some and its not very hard to do.
 
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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 01:44 PM
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Nice truck. You got alot of work in it. One thing I noticed, your track bar and drag link are at differnt angles. (bumpsteer) You might want to do a tierod flip. It would help some and its not very hard to do.
Thats the first thing I saw too. Well I guess I saw a sweet as Bronco first. Nice truck. Did you do the suspension? You should do a writeup on it about how you did it. Welcome.
 
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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 04:09 PM
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suspension

yep, i did the suspension, ill do a writeup soon, talk to me about the tie rod flip, do you have to use heilm joints? i saw a sick setup at bluetorchfab.com its a whole drag link, tierod kit with heilm joints. pretty beefy, thank you guys for the comps and input
 
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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 04:26 PM
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By the looks of it you could cure most of the angle by going back to the stock pitman arm. Although that looks like it will create quite an angle. I think perhaps the proper way would be to lower and/or extend the track bar to the drivers side more to create an angle that more matches your steering angle.
 
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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by boulderbronco
By the looks of it you could cure most of the angle by going back to the stock pitman arm. Although that looks like it will create quite an angle. I think perhaps the proper way would be to lower and/or extend the track bar to the drivers side more to create an angle that more matches your steering angle.
Agreed, I'd see about lengthening the drag link and moving the frame attachment point further under the driver's side of the truck. Dropping it down from the frame where it is can be tricky and make it susceptible to cracking the frame mounting. (I personally loathe the idea of "drop" anything... drop bracket, drop mount, etc)

Welcome to FTE and the Big Bronco Forum. Pardon the urge we all suffer to immediately critique any truck we see... you have a very nice ride there.
 
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Old Jul 19, 2010 | 03:58 AM
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What size are your tires??? Post some engine pics!!!

good lookin bronco! It looks like it could run mine over easily haha
 
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Old Jul 19, 2010 | 05:14 AM
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tires

the tires are 42 x 15-15 tsl swampers, ill post engine pics later this week when i put the kooks headers on, actually i think i might rip the engine and paint it nice, maybe cam it up, any suggestions on a cam, thanks guys.
 
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 09:39 AM
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I did a write up on the tierod flip. (search tierod flip) It was on a TTB, but its the same thing for yours. ithink I would do it first, then look at the pitman arm because its nice to get the tierod/draglink up a little out of harms way. You dont have to use the heim joints. All you really need is a taper reamer. But, on a bad *** truck like that you might want to upgrade at the same time. Looks like you allready did alot of that.
 
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 09:51 AM
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great looking bronco. also if you use a Zero rate rear block/shim it will move that rear tire back a bit in the fender well. looks a bit forward to me or perhaps its the pic.
 
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 02:31 PM
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Welcome, and really cool Bronc!
 
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