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From 1986 Ford Bronco “Eddie Bauer” — documented by Sixlitre.

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1986 Ford Bronco - Hanging up, painted, in the garage just waiting to be glued on. 1986 Ford Bronco - With the top off I got a-rippin' and a-tearin' and started to gut the interior. 1986 Ford Bronco - Now two weeks before this you already stuck your head into the rear wheelwells and wire brushed these threads and saturated them in penetra… 1986 Ford Bronco - Now it's just a matter of using some brute force to back the seat bracket bolts out. I've had them all out before and you can see which one… 1986 Ford Bronco - I'm using two layers of different carpet underlay under the rug which makes it real comfy to lie on when the tailgate tent is used. It prob… 1986 Ford Bronco - The stock cardboard inserts were real soggy last time so I just had Home Depot slice me up some 1/4" masonite into strips and it works beau… 1986 Ford Bronco - Carpets stripped out and interior pretty much empty and ready to get at her. Day is done. 1986 Ford Bronco - I've got a swing away spare so off comes the two circlips. Then just drift the pivot pins upward and off comes the whole arm assembly. Don'… 1986 Ford Bronco - The shape of things to come. I busted the lower bolt off the year I bought the Bronco. Well there was more of the same to come. 1986 Ford Bronco - In spite of having the tail lights out for removal of the tailgate hinges, and being able to heat the fixed nuts........ 1986 Ford Bronco - I done busted off another three of those 10mm bolts that hold on the spare tire carrier. 1986 Ford Bronco - These little plastic inserts for the tail light lens screws are not the sort of things you want to be throwing away. Sqeeze them from behin… 1986 Ford Bronco - I put them straight into the pained waiting rear quarters hanging up in the garage. If your panels are unpainted then store the plastic plu… 1986 Ford Bronco - May as well start drilling out the spot welds right here at the tail light area. Note the spot weld used on the between the two bolts of th… 1986 Ford Bronco - The lower one had a spot weld too. Note the last patch I stuck on the quarter panel (for the third time). It was long past time for new qua… 1986 Ford Bronco - Still in the tail light area. There are spot welds here in lower and upper. 1986 Ford Bronco - Spot weld cutter going to work on those same spot welds. 1986 Ford Bronco - Then just peel back the quarter skin and move on to the next contact area with spot welds. 1986 Ford Bronco - This part of the removal has been covered well by other people and is pretty straight forward. Drill out the spot welds and if you're lucky… 1986 Ford Bronco - Using the cut off disc slice through the first skin, but not the underlying support metal. 1986 Ford Bronco - After drilling out the end spot welds peel back the end tabs to get ready for removal. 1986 Ford Bronco - After wire brushing the seam filler out of the picture, drill out the spot welds on the A pillar. 1986 Ford Bronco - Again peel back the quarter panel loose from the support framing. 1986 Ford Bronco - When it comes time to seperate the A-pillar spot's welded seam I chose to slice just below it and give myself access so I could drill them… 1986 Ford Bronco - Yes, this is the other side but the photo was better. This area is the only lower attaching point ahead of the wheelwell itself. Drill out… 1986 Ford Bronco - Lever and pry the metal loose to seperate it. 1986 Ford Bronco - After the door jam spotwelds are all identified and drilled out just lever the welds loose and pop that part of the quarter loose. Both sid… 1986 Ford Bronco - Here's the lower skin at the bottom of the door. The last few spotwelds are on the side, not inside the jam, like the uppers part. 1986 Ford Bronco - Do it right and skin pops loose after enough prying and popping loose. 1986 Ford Bronco - Now get your safety glasses on and crawl under for the wheel well spot welds. Here you've caught me piloting for the spot weld cutter by ju… 1986 Ford Bronco - Here's the wheel well part of quarter drilled out waiting to be seperated. 1986 Ford Bronco - Pry carefully enough and you may be able to save the inner wheelwell and still seperate the quarter panel. 1986 Ford Bronco - Start pulling up from the rear and lever up to release the front, especially the part on the A-pillar. 1986 Ford Bronco - These will be revealed only after you start to pry the quarter off. They need to be drilled out too. 1986 Ford Bronco - Oops almost forgot to save these off the top of the rear quarters. 1986 Ford Bronco - Off it comes. Now the grinding, sanding, sealing, undecoating and repairs begin. 1986 Ford Bronco - Out with the old! This quarter is long overdue for retirement. 1986 Ford Bronco - After finding this I decided I'd better repair this before putting on the new rear quaters or my new tailgate would eventually fall off on… 1986 Ford Bronco - Here's the back corner glued and clamped. Not e the tailgate carrier brackets are being used as free clamps. I slipped a bit of glue in beh… 1986 Ford Bronco - Clamped here too. 1986 Ford Bronco - And here 1986 Ford Bronco - And especially here 1986 Ford Bronco - Warming a Scotsman's heart ! Look what's left after doing both rear quarters ! I did the whole of both sides with only one cartridge ! The… 1986 Ford Bronco - What a great fit on the gas door side. Can't say the same for the carrier bracket holes. 4 were close enough at the rear, but the 4 carrier… 1986 Ford Bronco - Tossed a screw into the tab that goes up the A-pillar. Much more seam filler will be needed before final paint. 1986 Ford Bronco - There's that green toothpaste again. I really loaded up the wheelwells and these A pillar seams and it seems to be harder than rock now. Yo… 1986 Ford Bronco - Threw two screws into each door jam area. I did this more as alignment dowels to get the proper quarter to door skin levels before glueing. 1986 Ford Bronco - Ain't it sweet when body lines line up ! I stuck the tailgate back on before I glued so I could line up the rear body lines with it. 1986 Ford Bronco - Cleaned all the metric threads out on the carrier bracket supports after removing all the broken bolts. 1986 Ford Bronco - Just prior to final alignment and glueing. Note how far out the holes were for the carrier bolts. 1986 Ford Bronco - Off to the dump we go with the old panels. Always go on a sunny week day with the big trucks, as they rarely charge you. If you're in with… 1986 Ford Bronco - Put the wire brush to these tailgate carrier parts. Then used a rust stopper (Loctite's Extend) then nailed em' with Krylon's rust paint.