PILE oh shit bronco 86

Austen2019

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Hey guys new to this build thread deal so bear with me.
Little about me I have built a purpose built Toyota pickup 22re race truck and raced the more and snore events. Got a couple first place finishes in class 2000 and won a championship. Fast foward to a couple years ago. I ended up parting the Toyota out and only had a long travel kit left to sell. A guy hit me up and asked if I wanted to trade a bronco for the kit and I took the offer. Brings us to currently I now have an 86 bronco.

I got the bronco with a brand new c6 trans with a Rancho 4in lift kit 351w motor no rust except on tailgate and drove on the trailer.

This thread will start from a year ago.
 

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I finally pulled it into the garage and started with the motor. I love simplicity and carbs. I registered it in Arizona so I can remove all smog from it. Put intake on it rebuilt the heads, put a 650 double pumper holly on it. Cleaned everything up with all new seals and arp hardware.
 

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Next was the suspension and brakes it all worked but I was getting it ready for a Mojave trail trip for my brother in laws bachelor party and didn’t want a failure so I went through everything on this bronco. Checked both diffs out new brakes and rotors on rebuilt the hubs and installed manual locking hubs.
 

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After the exterior was good I needed to do the interior. This truck sat with the back window down for a long time and was nasty inside. Removed the dash completely had to fix a lot of wiring replace entire ignition system and duck tape the ac heat system because all the flaps were broken. I made it only able to defrost with heat.
 

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At the desert I had the brake bias warning light wire catch fire. Luckily my battery switch was right next to me and was able to cut power and it went out. Wasn’t able to get it to run right or rev up or idle smooth. My pops is a carb wizard and did some tuning but still couldn’t get it to run right so figured out it wasn’t running on all 8.

Did lots of trouble shooting and figured out the new plug wires were bad some how, just my luck. Was leaving for Mojave trail in 4 days. I live in apple valley and work in San Bernardino. Drove it to work for two days before trip to make sure everything was good. The day before leaving the motor started running really bad with major blow by. Ended up hitching a co dog seat still had a good time.
 

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After the Mojave trail the bronco sat for about 6 months untouched. I worked on it every day late into the nights for about 2 months for that trip so was pretty over it once it didn’t make it. Spent the summer using the boat with wife and kid.
 

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