Cummins Powered Classic Bronco Takes No Prisoners

It goes where it wants

If you wanted to build a vehicle that could take you anywhere no matter the season or terrain, what would it look like? For Jon and Rhonda Barricklow, it looks like what you see above. This 1966 Bronco is just what they wanted to take them camping, hunting, and off-roading while traversing all over the northwest of this great country. The Bronco began life as just an ordinary vehicle until it was sent over to JB Custom Fabrication for a new lease on life with plenty of aftermarket parts. To start things off, the Bronco was shortened by 42 inches and then received an exoskeleton roll cage. 

Appropriately menacing

Rhonda stepped in and reworked the cab turning the body from it's a former rusty self to what it is now. Once that was done, the Bronco got a coating of RM Diamont single-stage flat matte black urethane paint. Under the hood is a 3.9-liter Cummins four-cylinder that was taken from an old bread delivery truck.

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Turbo Cummins

The motor was beefed up with changes to the injection pumps and a Holset turbo with a 12cm turbine housing. A new intake was formed from using 4-inch diameter aluminum tubing routed through a 4-inch chrome plated stack that stands right behind the cab. Right behind that Cummins turbo engine is a ZF 5-speed manual transmission fitted to a Stak transfer case made just for early Bronco models. The ZF transmission has a ratio if 5.72:1 for the First gear and an Overdrive ratio of 0.67:1. 

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This Bronco means buisiness

The reason for such gearing needs is that the Bronco is running a set of Mercedes Unimog 404 axles that have an effective drive ratio of 7.56:01. The double overdrive in the Bronco allows it to get up to highway speeds in decent time as the lower gearing gives it substantial control rock crawling. 

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Ready for any road

For airing up the tires, there is a 4BT powered Bendix air compressor and a Vickers hydraulic pump to run the hydraulic ram-assisted power steering. 

So what do you think of this great aggressive classic turned offroad menace?

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