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1979 Ford Bronco “Tex”
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“Tex”1979 Ford Bronco

documented by r79bronco 431 photos documented since 6 years documented ♡ Follow this build

The story

Bought it as a rolling chassis from Texas 18 years ago. Just now getting started on it. — r79bronco

Day one vs. today

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1979 Ford Bronco in 2021
1979 Ford Bronco in 2015
2015 2021

Photo history

431 photos across 5 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.

2015

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Ford Bronco body on jack stands in a garage, stripped down for repair. A large box is on the roof Disassembled 1978 Ford Bronco in a garage, showing its frame and interior 1979 Ford Bronco — Close-up of a hand adjusting a differential gear assembly with bearings. 1979 Ford Bronco — Close-up of a differential gear and bearing inside a housing. 1979 Ford Bronco — Differential assembly with ring gear and pinion gears, showing blue marking compound. 1979 Ford Bronco — Differential parts including ring gear, pinion, yoke, seal, and bearings on a wooden surface. 1979 Ford Bronco — solid spacer instead of crush sleeve 1979 Ford Bronco — frame fresh out

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1979 Ford Bronco — Not wired but I think that will be easy compared to getting it mounted in the dash. 7" screen can have a… 1979 Ford Bronco — Polk 6 1/2 " fit right in with no holes to drill. Rear 6x9 not quite that easy. Will get to that soon. 1979 Ford Bronco — Starting to look like a dash again. 1979 Ford Bronco — FYI the reproduction door handle pads from JBG do not fit the original door handles. Maybe they are made to f… 1979 Ford Bronco — A work of art ? 1979 Ford Bronco — Bent up custom lines to go from master cylinder to brake switch . Now we just need brake fluid. 1979 Ford Bronco — Putting old window in didn't go so well. 1979 Ford Bronco — So we got a new one with upgrade that included sun shield. And they installed it.

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1979 Ford Bronco — Onboard air compressor bracket. 1979 Ford Bronco — This unit will be hidden out of sight. 1979 Ford Bronco — Made this bracket to help stiffen the dropped track bar mount. it uses the existing bolts for shock mount and… 1979 Ford Bronco — Needed to make the track bar adjustable. Plenty of meat to drill and tap it for 3/4-16 rod end Rod end bearing with threaded shaft and nut, resting on a metal surface Metal part clamped in a milling machine vise, with a circular piece being worked on Machined metal part with conical recess on a drill press Tap wrench and die holder used to tap threads into a metal bracket clamped on a milling machine

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1979 Ford Bronco — So I'm going to swap Tex over to an AOD overdrive transmission but an AOD never fit behind a 400 Ford so the… 1979 Ford Bronco — Never done an automatic trans before but I have to start somewhere. Its going to be an AOD with the 4r70w wid… 1979 Ford Bronco — Off with old heres the new 1979 Ford Bronco — milling it square and to length. 1979 Ford Bronco — Building a new short block for Tex it will be internally balanced so I need to make a neutrally balanced damp… 1979 Ford Bronco — Close-up of a pulley being machined on a metal lathe. 1979 Ford Bronco — Machined the counter weight out so it will need to be checked an a balance machine. 1979 Ford Bronco — New short block is going to use a one piece main seal so the block has to be updated to accept.

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1979 Ford Bronco — Hughes recommended 10.5" 2000 stall for our application. Mocking up assembly with new tci 164 tooth flex… 1979 Ford Bronco — Bellhousing is close to fitting but hits the converter. Checking without block plate but if i make it fit wit… 1979 Ford Bronco — Needs a little clearance. 1979 Ford Bronco — T.he setup. 18" turntable on the mill with a 1 1/2" ball mill 1979 Ford Bronco — Setting cutter for minimum 1/8" material thickness. Had to do this a few times for the different height… Milling cutter bit being measured with calipers against a metal rod Close-up of a hex bolt and nut on a textured metal surface with red lettering 1979 Ford Bronco — Milling away for clearance.
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