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1985 Ford Bronco II “#5”
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“#5”1985 Ford Bronco II

142 photos documented since 2007 10 years documented ♡ Follow this build

The story

Full size TSL Bogger spare
4 inch fender flares
Warn tabor 9K winch
2 inch James Duff poly body lift
Homemade bumpers and roll bar
1/4 inch steel rocker panel guards
Set of 4 pro comp ES-3000 long travel shocks
James Duff 3.5 inch lift early bronco progressive rate coils
2 inch extended shackles
Clinometer
Fire extinguisher
Grant steering wheel
Stainless hood pins
Removed rear top and 3 windows permanently
All the rest of the blue XLT interior was from the #4 parts truck, and doors and front driver fender from grey #3 truck.
I cut wrecked front passenger inner body out at door to center behind grill and replaced it with same piece from 1986 Ranger. — CapitalJ

Day one vs. today

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1985 Ford Bronco II in 2017
1985 Ford Bronco II in 2007
2007 2017

Photo history

142 photos across 4 years — drag the dot to travel through this vehicle’s life. Captions are the owner’s; where there isn’t one, the AI caption fills in.

2007

2007

30 photos added — showing 8

1985 Ford Bronco II - 500$ in and redy to tear it up, gettin ready for rear axle and independant front suspension removal. I bought it with the 93 4.0 liter v-6… 1985 Ford Bronco II - I hung the cable from the ceiling and winched the front end up and down like 40 times, the winch did great. 1985 Ford Bronco II - just slide the dana 44 under it for the first time 1985 Ford Bronco II - Lots of goodies to remove, strange angle brackets and other IFS suspension components are all in the way, im pretty sure that crap was heav… 1985 Ford Bronco II - I needed to add longer shackles in rear, it squatted a bit. 1985 Ford Bronco II - It had no brakes hardly but i had to drive it a little. 1985 Ford Bronco II - went right back in the garage 1985 Ford Bronco II - I had to cut the perches 3/4 around, taking note as to where the coil first touches them as the lowest point, and shaping it in a sort of c…

2008

49 photos added — showing 8

1985 Ford Bronco II - first trip to the chats. 1985 Ford Bronco II - wanted to see if anything was binding or had slack,obstructions, ect. 1985 Ford Bronco II - everything seemed fine, I have to do some front fender trimming and add a limiting strap up front. 1985 Ford Bronco II - I trimmed the front fenders after driving it off road. I used a 4 1/2 inch angle grinder with a cutting disk. 1985 Ford Bronco II - I tried cutting as little as possible. 1985 Ford Bronco II - I made a pattern from a piece of Tyvek house wrap, they match really well. 1985 Ford Bronco II - haha , I will paint it soon I guess. 1985 Ford Bronco II - another trip to the local chats, this time I see that my rear fenders rub.

2009

10 photos added — showing 8

1985 Ford Bronco II - Remove the P.T.O cover to retrieve the roll pin and freeze plugg from the case. I used a telescoping magnet. 1985 Ford Bronco II - Remove the bolt housing the spring and ball , this is the gear selector placement. Now the shift rail should slide freely. This modificatio… 1985 Ford Bronco II - Drive in freeze plugg and use the same hole to drive in the roll pin that holds the shift fork to the rail. You'll have to move the rail in… 1985 Ford Bronco II - Grind the shift rail. You'll have to install the shift rail and roll pin a few times cuz you wanna try to grind off as little as possible.… 1985 Ford Bronco II - I pulled this back out after it was correct right after I measured it in the previous pick. As your grinding and checking make sure you can… 1985 Ford Bronco II - Get an item such as an allen wrench approx the same size as the punch and reach into the p.t.o. hole and hold the fork on the shift ring. T… 1985 Ford Bronco II - I made shift linkage from a 3/4 inch union pipe fitting and drilled it to install a keeper, then welded a tab off it at an angle to keep th… 1985 Ford Bronco II - I tried to thin two identical shifters as much as possible, and added metal bushings and a longer bolt. I also greased the crap out of it a…

2017

18 photos added — showing 8

1985 Ford Bronco II - New fabbed bumper 1985 Ford Bronco II - Threw some paint on it 1985 Ford Bronco II - Added bucket seats this summer and a set of 5-point belts. 1985 Ford Bronco II - Disney OK. 4/20/17 1985 Ford Bronco II - Disney OK. 4/20/17 1985 Ford Bronco II - Disney OK. 4/20/17 1985 Ford Bronco II - Disney OK. 4/20/17 1985 Ford Bronco II - Disney OK. 4/20/17
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