Sometime before first snow fall here in Michigan. Plan to drive my turbo 88 up til the weather changes then drive the 83 all winter.

 

By that Logic, You've got until October, maybe November. If your lucky. lol.

Truck looks good man. This thing looks solid.

 

sub'd

 

Got the rear bumper finished today and it turned out great. Added a crossmember to mount front of gas tank skidplate and welded nuts into bumper for rear of skid.





Just need to add some LED tail lights.
Skidplate all cleaned up and ready to bolt in. Tank and lines goin tomorrow.

 

Gas tank and skid all finished. Finished welding up the lower bed frame and its now tacked to the chassis. Picked up a nice Foxbody radiator that fits perfect behind the cab.




Tank is tucked up nicely and is higher than it was in the Bronco2 so it should work great. 23 gallons FTW!

 

Re you putting the bed back on or gonna go flat bed or something else with this thing?

 

I have over 100ft of 1.75 DOM coming Saturday to build the bed cage and exo. No bed sides,just tubing.

 

Foxbody rad and a Taurus fan....nice fit.

Wont make mounts until main hoop is made but this is how it should sit.

 

Didnt get as much done this weekend as I wanted but I did get the 35's mounted up,fuel lines ran,picked up all my tubing and expanded metal,Blacked out engine bay, swapped in my non-a/c heater box,got sliders mocked up and removed all the 2wd steering crap.

 

Please keep that two tone paint. It looks good with the black rims

 

Yeah Im goin to just leave the factory paint until maybe next summer and then I will do the white paint job to match my turbo truck. Gota see if I can get new red paint that matches for the hood and I will need to reshoot the roof.

 

awesome project! this thing will be very cool when done

 

Super sweet build, that truck was in awesome condition for being that old. can't wait to see it all finished

 

Gettin there! Got the front clip off and cut up the core support and rebuilt it stronger around the body mounts and raised the bottom so i can mount the winch behind the grill.
Added a 2" body lift,got my shock tabs,figured out my front bumper,did some rust repair under the old battery tray and got the rest of the tools I need to build bed and exo.

Will start bending tube on friday and hope to be finished by monday nite.

 

Ok good weekend. Got a lot done.

I had to cut out bottom of core support for winch clearance then I had to rebuild the area around the body mounts on the passenger side from battery acid damage. The whole corner under the battery tray was gone so I made some patch panels and rebuilt that area also.


I got the 2" bodylift finished and cab bolted back down and mounted up my rocksliders. Started bending tube and got the main hoop in and the fender tops.





Took some time to think the rest through and added my brace for the main hoop then started running tape.Spare tire will get mounted in this location.




I made hoops to go under the rear of the fenders for my tails and have trailer markers for the side of the frame rails.

All the manual brake crap is off and all the 2wd suspension is cut off, all clean frame up front.

 

Its looking good. How do you have so much time to work on this thing?

 

I work 12hours a day tuesday thru friday. 3 day weekends help alot. And a cool chic who wants to go wheelin as bad as me!

 

Don't need nothin more in life if you ask me.


Looks good man. I just started working in the Monroe area, maybe one day i'll see it.

 

If your around Monroe Im sure we will run into each other.....or you can meet me at Bundy!

 

You're a lucky man!

 

Nice work!

 

Well I have one more tube to bend tomorrow and the rest is all just notching a bunch of straight stuff and start burnin some wire. Came up with a better idea for the brest of the bed today so it will loook a bit different than the pic above with tape

 

Whatever you do, I'm sure it will look good.

 

Where are your taillights going?

 

In my pix do you see the 90º hoops I have sitting on the spare tire? Those are goin in the corner to tie the rear of the fenders to the verticle 2" square tubing. I will then plate the opening in the hoop and mount the tails in there. That will be done on friday.