Hoe-J, The Sleepy Bronco

[bajabugmobbin]

Waddup my dudes, I got pestered enough with sticker slaps to join the forum. figured I'd start with my new project

The First Real Project in the new shop is goin down!

The victim: 1 properly clapped out 1993 Bronco. Has the 5.8 backed up with the E40D trans.
Goal of the project: Reliable, comfortable, street friendly Cruiser. I need this to be as multi-purpose as possible. Duties include: Mexico Trips, Light Pre-running, Chase duties, and the occasional Broverlanding trips once I get back to planning those. It needs to be just as comfortable on the highway as it is on some tore up Mexican coast road.
Keeping the drivetrain relatively stock to help with reliability. I want to try to stick with 35" tires to keep the budget in check.

Tear down has begun!



Parts that I need to get rid of, ill post them in the classifieds later



*IF ANYONE HAS A PLUG FOR FACTORY FRONT SEATS AND REAR BENCH WITH BRACKETS I WOULD MUCH APPRECIATE IT!*

Parts on order and planned work:
Ohhcho Fab 1.5" over Fully fabricated beams and front shock mounts/crossover. Cho says its good for 19" of travel.
Richer Racing Rear spring under kit. (19" travel)
Ambulance steering kit (no crossover yet)
Quick Performance Fabbed 9" rear, set 80 bearings.
3.0 coilover in front, 3.0 bypass in the rear
2.5" bump stops
new 1350 joint rear driveshaft.
throw a bunch of parts at the motor and trans to get it to hopefully survive a long time.
Make the interior a relatively nice place to sit.

 

[Brett_408]

Sounds like a really nice build. Pm'd you about some of those parts.

 

[LPR_Bronco]

It's lookin like you've got a solid base to start with. Excited to see more Bronco builds

 

[cbrewer22]

hit up tommy tt motorsports for stock seats and interior parts.

 

[bajabugmobbin]

hit up tommy tt motorsports for stock seats and interior parts.

me and Tommy go way back, he was my first ask, but even the OBS king doesn't have the seats. Sad day!

 

[ErikB]

I have gray XLT front seats with no sliders. Pretty good condition if your interested

 

[bajabugmobbin]

I have gray XLT front seats with no sliders. Pretty good condition if your interested

ya shoot me over some pics if you can!

 

[bajabugmobbin]

Made some good progress this weekend!

Cleaned up the hubs and spindles, ready for assembly


Got the old brackets stripped off the frame. Some jackwagon cut to top web so Im gonna need to fixt that up to move forward. Also have to reattach the mid body mounts, they got sliced off for god knows what reason.

 

[Brett_408]

Ugg bronco frame undercoat. Glad their was someone else spending their weekend doing what I was doing.

 

[bajabugmobbin]

Ugg bronco frame undercoat. Glad their was someone else spending their weekend doing what I was doing.

Do yourself a favor and get the surface conditioner from harbor freight, made quick work of it! https://www.harborfreight.com/autom...ls/9-amp-surface-conditioning-tool-58079.html

 

[Brett_408]

Do yourself a favor and get the surface conditioner from harbor freight, made quick work of it! https://www.harborfreight.com/autom...ls/9-amp-surface-conditioning-tool-58079.html

Thanks I didn't even think of that

 

[bajabugmobbin]

So many good things happening!

Shocks and bumps showed up, Shoutout to Sunny at Downsouth motorsports for helping me avoid the ridiculous lead times.

Sick welded eyelets to maximize ground clearance. 3.hoes



Can bumps go on the rear



Eyelet bumps go on the front:



3.hoes



Autofab goodies to replace the clapped out motor/trans mounts and fresh steering components



Lots of mechanic-ing





Fixed the chopped frame (dont mind my welding, im a bit rusty)








replaced the chopped off body mounts



Spent assloads of time cleaning the frame



Got the solo brackets on



Got the new quick performance axle






MORE TO COME!

 

[bajabugmobbin]

ITS GO TIME FOOS!

 

[bajabugmobbin]

more sick ass parts:

 

[bajabugmobbin]

Bronco updates!

Cut off hopefully the last of the PO's shitty work, radius arm mounts. That sucked.



Got the solo beam brackets on, bolted and welded since the crossmember was cracked and wallowed out bolt holes. Got the shock towers hung (more rivets got cut out)


Beams hung and radius arm brackets placed

 

[bullnerd]

Dang thats sweet!

 

[Brad12]

So sick. I just picked up a bronco this weekend and hope to do similar things. I'll def be following this thread.

 

[Giant Geoff]

Very cool! You got 2 great brands for parts there. Love Bobby and Cho!

 

[bajabugmobbin]

Back on my bronco BS!

Oocho got around to building out my 3/4 cage

Picked up some inner fenders from Factory BS to make my fiberglass install go way more smoothly, also swooped some lightly used Autofab glass from him, was able to skip the waiting time!

Started Playing around with axle clearance

ANNND Got my shock and bump mounts figured out for the front! i kinda like the eyelet bumps, seems way easier to mount and no more stuck bumps in cans issues. Decided to basically max out my up travel without frame notching to land the shock, ill have to move a bunch of stock electronics and stuff. Still not sure if I am going to try to put this thing back to stock with smog or just hot smog it, We will see how much of a pain in the ass it turns out to be.

 

[Giant Geoff]

Very cool! Looks great

Clean and paint it before you put it in. When I did Andrew‘s cage, I painted each piece before even mocked it up inside the truck and then when I did the front section I was done fitting. I would spray paint the majority of each tube before I tacked it in it makes it easier Than masking it all off later and then not being able to get to some backside areas.