88 Bronco

[acjohn]

Well earlier this year found out we're having kid number 2. Fast foward a couple trades and selling off a bunch of shit, were piecing together clapped out bronco and a stock width long travel from desolate. Really trying to build something i can drive out from the house and enjoy a camping trip with the kiddos, or tow out behind the truck and scare the shit out of my wife.

Original plans was to get this guy on a stock width kit from desolate, keep the 2.5 coil overs in the front (cause who can afford those sexy IBPs?)
Bumped the rear up to 3.0x12 bypasses (if they ever come in, 9 weeks and still waiting)
Slap a 3/4 cage in the rear for future expandability
Had planned to keep the stock 8.8 and add a truss, have since replaced with a 9" ford rear end, new housing from quick performance third member etc.
Got the stock c6 rebuilt, added a shift kit.
Factory 351w is still going strong, added a set of shorty headers to it, looking to get a set of gt40 heads.
Would love to build the 351 and stroke it to a 383, but waiting on my onlyfeet page to take off
Stock beat up fenders are staying with some 35s tucked into them.
desolate bumper in the rear.
Front bumper looking to do something custom integrating a skid plate and some tubing into the front stock bumper. (would love photos if anyone has ideas)
Loving the ideas of keeping it sleeperish

definetly not on the level of alot of the builds i see on, that being said first time i've doing anything like that and stoked to get it back on all 4s.

 

[acjohn]

I've got the front all buttoned up and started on the rear after a couple week break.

 

[acjohn]

The rear is almost ready to go back together. Thankfully a friend much more talented than me is helping with the important welding, sucks to be him though having to make the fucked up work i did with the truss look nice. Rear is ready to back togetther, need to burn the truss in. Unfortunately still on a 2+ month wait for the rear bypasses so im kind of at a stand still.

 

[Brett_408]

Very Nice

 

[UR_Mawm69]

fuck yes man. 88's are the bees knees!

i had an 89' that was literally my liffffffffffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. i wish i would of taken more pics of the build process, or at least still had them.
best, most capable all around truck (that was a DD for a long time actually...... haha) i ever dun did own and ever will own!!!!!!





definately do NOT skip on the cage part............ my 3 passengers and i were lucky enough to get away from this with some stiches and bruises............

 

[acjohn]

fuck yes man. 88's are the bees knees!

i had an 89' that was literally my liffffffffffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. i wish i would of taken more pics of the build process, or at least still had them.
best, most capable all around truck (that was a DD for a long time actually...... haha) i ever dun did own and ever will own!!!!!!

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definately do NOT skip on the cage part............ my 3 passengers and i were lucky enough to get away from this with some stiches and bruises............View attachment 36766

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hoooooo shit


Lol fuck man glad you guys came out okay. Yeah I'd like to get the cage going before i start driving it like a bat out of hell. I have a feeling im not gonna have much of a desert season next couple years so im taking my time

 

[Giant Geoff]

Very cool. looks good.

 

[FENDERFAB]

Welcome Habibi! Progress looks great man!

 

[UR_Mawm69]

hoooooo shit


Lol fuck man glad you guys came out okay. Yeah I'd like to get the cage going before i start driving it like a bat out of hell. I have a feeling im not gonna have much of a desert season next couple years so im taking my time

haha. there were milllllllllllllions of other times where that SHOULD OF been the outcome, but it wasnt. i beat the living PISSSSSSSSSSSSSS out of that thing. took it all like a champ!
that happened when i was just going slow on the top of a ridge that i hadnt been on yet, and we just dropped a tire real slow and then............. well, you get it. haha

it's always the "easy/simple/no brainer" type shit that'll bite you in the ass at the wrong time.

 

[85Yota]

Yes even a simple cage will save your life. I'm going to do a simple bare bones, save my lift cage on my F150 after this season so when I'm driving it too fast and stupid I won't die or have another brain injury since I got lucky the first time.

 

[acjohn]

Welcome Habibi! Progress looks great man!

Thanks dood can't wait to get it on all 4s again

 

[acjohn]

Yes even a simple cage will save your life. I'm going to do a simple bare bones, save my lift cage on my F150 after this season so when I'm driving it too fast and stupid I won't die or have another brain injury since I got lucky the first time.

The ochofab 3/4 cage is likely how I'll go. Can always build forward from there

 

[acjohn]

ended up finding a used new set of 3.0s to get the rear finished up





the truss should be finished up this weekend, get the rear cycled and weld on the shock tabs.







Got the gas tank dropped and swapped the skid plate out for the desolate one, happy how it came out. I'll be running their rear bumper too so excited to see it all together.

 

[acjohn]

rear end is coming to a close here. I'm beyond grateful to have a neighbor and friend who can weld. I hacked that poor truss, he made it look great.
Maybe get the rear cycled tomorrow and get the shock mouts In.

 

[acjohn]

Boogying this weekend. Maybe have it on wheels by Monday?

 

[Giant Geoff]

Sweer! What does it look like when it's bumped out?

 

[acjohn]

Sweer! What does it look like when it's bumped out?

working on that, ran into issues with trying to use the desolate top hat with the ubolt delete for the leafs.
Didnt grab a photo with the shocks mounted