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Silver 1973 Ford Bronco with a winch on the front bumper and a black hood scoop
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“Alex's Silver Stallion”1973 Ford Bronco

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Silver 1973 Ford Bronco with a winch on the front bumper and a black hood scoop 1973 Ford Bronco: Hurst Pro-Matic shifter from Craigslist. Has PRND21 which matches the 4R70W pattern since O/D is locked out w… Hurst shift cable mounted to the transmission lever with the end of the stock Bronco carburetor linkage welde… 1973 Ford Bronco: Bosch 69100 fuel pump mounted low to feed off the carburetor style sending unit. WIX 33270 150 micron filter… 1973 Ford Bronco: Full engine bay harness from the Explorer. Starting to peel off the tape to see the rainbow inside. 1973 Ford Bronco: Chomp! Cut the main harness just past the relay box, which is in the area behind the driver's headlight. Remo… 1973 Ford Bronco: Ahhh, scary wiring! This is after cutting off the 3 firewall connectors. Lots of wires can be removed at this… 1973 Ford Bronco: These are the wires I removed from C115 because they are not needed. It's cleaner to remove them rather than… 1973 Ford Bronco: Getting less scary! The 7 circuits left in place are in the split loom tubing. The big bundle of wires in the… 1973 Ford Bronco: PDB mounting bracket cut and welded on backwards so that it mounts downward and the box sits over the bracket… 1973 Ford Bronco: The 3 grounds from C115 ground to the old voltage regulator ground. I wire wheeled the metal bare then covere… 1973 Ford Bronco: We used a piece of a broken aluminum yard stick to move the P/S reservoir down and back. It wasn't quite enou… 1973 Ford Bronco: The EGR solenoid was too high (surprise, surprise... do a body lift first!) so we took the mounting bracket a… 1973 Ford Bronco: We took the MAF out of the airbox and mounted it to the fender. With a little help from the heat gun the 3" S… 1973 Ford Bronco: The air filter came with the plate and gasket that mounted right up to the MAF sensor. Search eBay for "air i… 1973 Ford Bronco: We'll have to figure out a solution for the fan shroud since the fan is almost completely outside it. I've re… 1973 Ford Bronco: We used the Explorer's throttle cable but it angled upward into the hood too much so we cut the lower mountin… 1973 Ford Bronco: The oil filler ran into the intake tube and I just happened to have a Buick 3.8 sitting on the shop floor and… 1973 Ford Bronco: Another shot of the radiator hose attaching the filler tube. 1973 Ford Bronco: Nearly finished. We were going to keep the A/C lines for potential future use but we're going to yank them si… 1973 Ford Bronco: These 3 connectors were originally in the engine bay. The 4-pin square connector is used for the black/red wi… 1973 Ford Bronco: Overdrive cancel switch and LED. There was a big hole here already so in it went. The LED has a faint glow ev… 1973 Ford Bronco: This is the alternator charge light and it does need to be a bulb rather than a LED, preferably with a 470 oh… 1973 Ford Bronco: OBD2 port (AKA DLC) for diagnostics. It has 3 wires from C115 and then a power and ground wire. Laying on the… 1973 Ford Bronco: Eight lonely fuses, two relays, and a diode are all that's left. Since the Bronco doesn't have a true RUN/START circuit from the factory, we created one with a bridge rectifi… 1973 Ford Bronco: The Explorer starter solenoid coil grounds through its case so we removed the paint from the wheel housing un… 1973 Ford Bronco: This still needs a little cleanup but it's just a busy area for wiring. C115 splits into 3 groups here: -The… 1973 Ford Bronco: Arial view of the PDB. These wires now have split loom protecting them. To the right of the PDB you can see C… 1973 Ford Bronco: We had cut a section out of the throttle bracket at the bottom and weld it back together to clock the bracket… 1973 Ford Bronco: The finished product! It turned out fairly clean but it sure would've made sense to paint the engine bay befo… 1973 Ford Bronco: We were adjusting the shift linkage when a cloud of stinky smoke came out from under the hood. We feared the… 1973 Ford Bronco: The test drive was awesome! This thing flies compared to when it had the 302 and C6. It even leaves rubber ac…
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