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The Busted Bronco

From 1988 Ford Bronco “Do & Hope”, documented by Moseley Matheson.

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1988 Ford Bronco - The Engine bay as we remove some stuff.

1988 Ford Bronco - Shane trying to figure out the Plenum problem. By the way we let air outta the tires, Shane isn't really that tall.

1988 Ford Bronco - The plenum bolt that had to be drilled out. The star pattern was stripped so we drilled it out.

1988 Ford Bronco - 127,000+ miles of grime on that intake.

1988 Ford Bronco - One broken short block, ready to come out. It was about this time we realized the back two cylinders wouldn't move when we turned the crank.

1988 Ford Bronco - Shane, getting the engine ready to come out.

1988 Ford Bronco - The busted block outta the engine. Like my new oil filter, just put it in.

1988 Ford Bronco - A shot of an empty engine bay, notice the scattered bolts below the windshield. This would prove to be a problem later.

1988 Ford Bronco - another shot of the block.

1988 Ford Bronco - Here is the problem, broken crank shaft.

1988 Ford Bronco - Here is a close up of the same picture.

1988 Ford Bronco - another shot. (There are many.)

1988 Ford Bronco - Another close-up.

1988 Ford Bronco - Here is a shot with a pry bar pointing to the crack. (incase you didn't see it in the first 4 shots.)

1988 Ford Bronco - And one more for good measure.

1988 Ford Bronco - My new Grooms short block. Bored .40 over with the new comp cam already in.

1988 Ford Bronco - Me painting the engine bay. One of the few things I was allowed to do on my own.

1988 Ford Bronco - Cleaned the oil pan and valve covers.

1988 Ford Bronco - Nice new GT-40 heads compared to the old crusty stock heads.

1988 Ford Bronco - Comparison of the intake and exhaust valves between the two.

1988 Ford Bronco - Stock exhaust manifold compared to the new headers. Notice the port size difference.

1988 Ford Bronco - Picture showing the intake runners of the new GT-40 heads.

1988 Ford Bronco - Here is the old head's intake runners, for comparison to the new GT-40 head's runners.

1988 Ford Bronco - Painted the block, and everything else.

1988 Ford Bronco - Engine with timing chain cover.

1988 Ford Bronco - Engine with Headers on.

1988 Ford Bronco - The new engine wanting to go to it's new home.

1988 Ford Bronco - Here is the engine lowered in.

1988 Ford Bronco - That's me doing something pretty important, I just can't remember what.

1988 Ford Bronco - Yup doing something reaaaally important.

1988 Ford Bronco - That's me working on getting the intake mounted. I finally got an important task.

1988 Ford Bronco - Got the accessories hooked up and the lower intake mounted, which proved to be a difficult problem to over come.

1988 Ford Bronco - Next we have the upper intake plenum, which is heavy, and a PITA to get set on it's gasket.

1988 Ford Bronco - Plenum is mounted, it is starting to look like a real engine again.

1988 Ford Bronco - That's Shane priming the oil pump.

1988 Ford Bronco - More priming.

1988 Ford Bronco - Shane working on tuning the beast. Notice the dirty INSIDE of my hood, I was playing in some puddles (more like lakes) before the engine we…