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1982 Motorhome

From 1983 Ford Bronco “Jezebel” — documented by michael collins.

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1983 Ford Bronco - The new toy has come home. this is a 1982 27' southwind motorhome. it has a 502 big block and an TH400 tranny and a US Gear underdrive unit 1983 Ford Bronco - Here is the front end. this is in good shape for its age. 1983 Ford Bronco - here she is in front of Jezebel. They lost a fan on the way up so i going to do a ford Taruas fan swap. 1983 Ford Bronco - here is the back end. 1983 Ford Bronco - ok here is the pass side firewall as i got it. 1983 Ford Bronco - here are the 2 batteries. It is a wiring mess. i going to clean it up as i do the fan swap. 1983 Ford Bronco - this is the current fan relay the wires are too small and one of the fans burned up. 1983 Ford Bronco - this is the fan fuse. 1983 Ford Bronco - one more look at the wiring mess. lots of wires going many places. 1983 Ford Bronco - ok time to get some parts. 1 constant duty relay, 12AWG wire and connectors. the wire tap is fron a full size chevy suburban. this will all… 1983 Ford Bronco - the relay will handle the high spike turn on the fan produces. the NAPA number is ST88 1983 Ford Bronco - i used 5/16 tec screws to hold the power tap to the firewall. 1983 Ford Bronco - i did this swap over two nights so some of the wires were moved and deleted after the next day. this is alot cleaner than the way i got it. 1983 Ford Bronco - here is the battery after the 1st night. i had to run a temp power to the power tap and i needed the front terminal to complete the circuit… 1983 Ford Bronco - i had this cable from a 3G alt swap that did not get completed. this is way over kill but the end is $0.50 to swap and a new cable would be… 1983 Ford Bronco - here is the cable with the correct lug end. 1983 Ford Bronco - here is the tap side of the cable. this will allow anything to be powered here. 1983 Ford Bronco - here is the battery side after the power tap is installed and jucied up. 1983 Ford Bronco - ok i decided to install the relay next to the power tap. 1983 Ford Bronco - one side of the smaller terminals needs to goto a ground. 1983 Ford Bronco - i went to the battery for the ground. i will get another tap and goto it and clean this side of the battery up too. 1983 Ford Bronco - the other side of the small terminal goes to a ignition hot powr source. the distributor was swapped for an HEI unit and the old balist was… 1983 Ford Bronco - this temp probe was alread in place and working so i used it to save time. 1983 Ford Bronco - this is the old fan. one works the other lost its main bearing. the power feed wires are too small. we will fix this. 1983 Ford Bronco - i upgraded the trigger wire and connector. 1983 Ford Bronco - here is the old (bottom) and the new fan 1983 Ford Bronco - here is the other side of the fans. 1983 Ford Bronco - NAPA called and the fan install kit came in. this is 4 zip ties and i got some connectors for the fan so if i got to swap one out it will b… 1983 Ford Bronco - here is the new fan in place and ready to run. 1983 Ford Bronco - wel after all the work the new relay was dead. i swapped it out for an older one i had that tested well. i return the other on tomorrow. th…