37 Driver side leaf pack clamped with add-a-leaf.jpg
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Led to some brake work...
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38 Rust fighting.jpg
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39 More rust fighting.jpg
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40 Less rust.jpg
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41 Passenger side.jpg
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42 Passenger side leaves.jpg
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43 Passenger side painted.jpg
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44 Passenger side.jpg
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45 Passenger side completed.jpg
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46 Passenger side completed.jpg
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47 Driver side completed.jpg
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48 Driver side leaf spring bracket.jpg
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49 Front lift height.jpg
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50 Rear lift height.jpg
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51 Lifted.jpg
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Non-tilt column turn signal switch harness color / pin out for a 79 Bronco
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Non-tilt column turn signal switch harness color / pin out for a 79 Bronco
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Non-tilt column turn signal switch harness color / pin out for a 79 Bronco
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This is the reason for the wonderful time I spent on Saturday. What is depicted here is the cheap, Chinese piece of cr@p clutch slave cylinder that I replaced almost exactly a year ago.
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20170224_170547.jpg
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Because I was in a hurry, I left the transfer case attached to the transmission for removal. Because its heavy and hard to stab back in place, I don't recommend this method. If you ate your can of spinach, feel free.

The big globs at the bottom of...
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20170224_170648.jpg
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What is depicted here is the new slave cylinder placed in the bellhousing of the transmission. Notice that the old slave cylinder leaked fluid all over the inside of the bellhousing.
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20170227_175938.jpg
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I've cleaned up the old slave cylinder a bit for disassembly. I want to know what makes these things tick.
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20170227_180216.jpg
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Depicted are the constituent parts of the clutch slave cylinder. I'm not sure about the proper terminology for the parts, but from left to right we see the following:
Clutch release bearing
Bearing retainer/piston
Upper spring retainer
Spring
Dust s...
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20170227_180244.jpg
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To remove the piston seal, I used a syringe with some mineral oil in it to force the piston seal out using hydraulic pressure. Despite the lack of spring pressure, the oil poured out from the seal when using the syringe. Fluid loss was worse with t...
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20170227_180449.jpg
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This is the piston. Well, its less of a piston than an extension of the piston. I'm going to call it a "piston follower". The actual piston is a rubber ring. This piece sits on top of the rubber ring and transfers force to the clutch re...
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20170227_180501.jpg
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Again, its hard to tell from the pictures, but one can see the texture of the bottom portion of this piece.
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One of the burrs can be plainly seen in the upper "corner" of the piece. Lack of proper surface preparation and poor quality control at the factory. These burrs have caused gouges in the seal, which is in the next image.
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This is the piston seal. The outer surface is supposed to provide a seal on the outer part of the housing, and the inner surface is supposed to provide a seal on the inner housing surface. As fluid pressure builds up behind this seal (stepping on t...
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The seal is quite flexible.
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Peering down between the outer housing and inner housing. This is where the seal is installed, and it moves back and forth (up and down in this pic) inside this gap. Notice all the funk at the bottom. I can only imagine that this stuff was origina...
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20170227_180701.jpg
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As one can see in this picture, the burrs have cut into parts of this piston/seal. I also removed quite a bit of what I can only describe as dissolved rubber during cleaning. Remember that this seal handles all of the force applied when the clutch ...
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wookie_1.jpg
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wookie_2.jpg
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This is what I wound up doing with the front grille. It was originally that plastic-chrome looking stuff, but had chips and flaking. I sanded the whole thing down and put two coats of primer on it--one coat of filler primer to fill in the sanding m...
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Once its off the truck, disassembly of the headlight trim and blinker housing is very easy. The housings came off before prep and paint, and the remaining trim got the same treatment as the grill.
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Another shot of the grill and the headlight trim. I damned sure wasn't going to sand everything back down to change it, so sparkly it remains.
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First things first. Since the truck will be getting paint, and I don't trust a body shop to do the right thing, I've stripped the truck down, and I've addressed all the little 'pock marks' in the paint. Most of them are quite small--size of a grain...
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Even if I were going to paint the truck myself, I would still remove everything I can off of it. I'd rather 'take off' than 'tape off' when it comes to painting a truck. Removing all this stuff not only results in a better looking end result, it al...
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The tailgate had a lot of paint chipping and pock marks that I thought I would address. Much like the rest of the truck, I ground down the paint in the affected areas and used a fast catalyzing spot putty. I didn't want to simply make the surface f...
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To keep the rust from continuing to form underneath I treated the inside of the tailgate with POR-15. There's more work to do in this regard, and I'll take pics as I go along.
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