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“Wookie”1995 Ford Bronco

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1995 Ford Bronco — This is the reason for the wonderful time I spent on Saturday. What is depicted here is the cheap, Chinese pi… 1995 Ford Bronco — Because I was in a hurry, I left the transfer case attached to the transmission for removal. Because its heav… 1995 Ford Bronco — What is depicted here is the new slave cylinder placed in the bellhousing of the transmission. Notice that th… 1995 Ford Bronco — I've cleaned up the old slave cylinder a bit for disassembly. I want to know what makes these things tick. 1995 Ford Bronco — Depicted are the constituent parts of the clutch slave cylinder. I'm not sure about the proper terminology fo… 1995 Ford Bronco — To remove the piston seal, I used a syringe with some mineral oil in it to force the piston seal out using hy… 1995 Ford Bronco — This is the piston. Well, its less of a piston than an extension of the piston. I'm going to call it a "… 1995 Ford Bronco — Again, its hard to tell from the pictures, but one can see the texture of the bottom portion of this piece. 1995 Ford Bronco — One of the burrs can be plainly seen in the upper "corner" of the piece. Lack of proper surface pre… 1995 Ford Bronco — This is the piston seal. The outer surface is supposed to provide a seal on the outer part of the housing, an… 1995 Ford Bronco — The seal is quite flexible. 1995 Ford Bronco — Peering down between the outer housing and inner housing. This is where the seal is installed, and it moves b… 1995 Ford Bronco — As one can see in this picture, the burrs have cut into parts of this piston/seal. I also removed quite a bit… Silver 1995 Ford Bronco parked on a dirt road with trees and mountains in the background 1995 Ford Bronco parked on dirt with trees in background 1995 Ford Bronco — This is what I wound up doing with the front grille. It was originally that plastic-chrome looking stuff, but… 1995 Ford Bronco — Once its off the truck, disassembly of the headlight trim and blinker housing is very easy. The housings came… 1995 Ford Bronco — Another shot of the grill and the headlight trim. I damned sure wasn't going to sand everything back down to… 1995 Ford Bronco — First things first. Since the truck will be getting paint, and I don't trust a body shop to do the right thin… 1995 Ford Bronco — Even if I were going to paint the truck myself, I would still remove everything I can off of it. I'd rather '… 1995 Ford Bronco — The tailgate had a lot of paint chipping and pock marks that I thought I would address. Much like the rest of… 1995 Ford Bronco — To keep the rust from continuing to form underneath I treated the inside of the tailgate with POR-15. There's… 1995 Ford Bronco — This what the panels look like. I could have replaced half the tailgate panel with what they sent me--I only… 1995 Ford Bronco — More metal cut out, and more surface rust behind. 1995 Ford Bronco — And this is probably the largest section of rust that there was to deal with on the truck, although there wer… 1995 Ford Bronco — As with most of our trucks there was rust. The bulk of the rust was on the tailgate and the front driver's si… 1995 Ford Bronco — rusted vehicle rocker panel with black sealant applied to repair hole Unfortunately for me, I have too many Bronco's, and one has to go. And although I'd drive this truck for the… 1995 Ford Bronco — This is "Wookie" sitting about half way up Mt. Herman in El Paso county, CO, just outside of Monume… 1995 Ford Bronco — 'Almost' finished. I hate body work. Everytime I think I'm close, I see some other minor thing that needs to… 1995 Ford Bronco — Not much to do here, but of course hail had to hit the ridge in the center of the hood, making repair a littl… 1995 Ford Bronco — And then I just 'had' to do this. At least my welds held up nicely. I guess I'm getting a new tailgate. 1995 Ford Bronco — And then I just 'had' to do this. At least my welds held up nicely. I guess I'm getting a new tailgate. 1995 Ford Bronco — Tailgate I picked up at the Junk Yard. Incidentally, its in much better shape than the one that was originall… 1995 Ford Bronco — This one had one little spot in the middle of the tailgate that was rusty. Lucky for me, the truck this was r… 1995 Ford Bronco — Prepping the rest of the tailgate. This tailgate originally came with a fancy cover. Not being overly fond of… 1995 Ford Bronco — The metal underneath is prepped (no pic) and a new piece of sheetmetal cut. Tacked it into place with the MIG… 1995 Ford Bronco — When welding sheet metal, its best to use the TIG. But, since I don't have any Argon at the moment, and I hav… 1995 Ford Bronco — Then we grind. And grind. And grind some more. Here we can see that I still have a way to go, but it's defini… 1995 Ford Bronco — When done grinding the spot may still be somewhat visible. A very very thin layer of fiberglass should be abl…
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