“Alex's Silver Stallion”1973 Ford Bronco

This 1973 Ford Bronco is parked outdoors with trees in the background. AI caption Hurst Pro-Matic shifter from Craigslist. Has PRND21 which matches the 4R70W pattern since O/D is locked out with a button on the dash. The… Owner Hurst shift cable mounted to the transmission lever with the end of the stock Bronco carburetor linkage welded to a nut that fit the cable.… Owner Bosch 69100 fuel pump mounted low to feed off the carburetor style sending unit. WIX 33270 150 micron filter (screen) before the pump and G… Owner Full engine bay harness from the Explorer. Starting to peel off the tape to see the rainbow inside. Owner Chomp! Cut the main harness just past the relay box, which is in the area behind the driver's headlight. Removing the harness from the Expl… Owner Ahhh, scary wiring! This is after cutting off the 3 firewall connectors. Lots of wires can be removed at this point because they went from… Owner These are the wires I removed from C115 because they are not needed. It's cleaner to remove them rather than cut them and I can put one bac… Owner Getting less scary! The 7 circuits left in place are in the split loom tubing. The big bundle of wires in the yellow zip tie are extras and… Owner PDB mounting bracket cut and welded on backwards so that it mounts downward and the box sits over the bracket. To the right is the C115 mou… Owner The 3 grounds from C115 ground to the old voltage regulator ground. I wire wheeled the metal bare then covered it in silicone grease to get… Owner We used a piece of a broken aluminum yard stick to move the P/S reservoir down and back. It wasn't quite enough so we had to take a notch o… Owner The EGR solenoid was too high (surprise, surprise... do a body lift first!) so we took the mounting bracket and flipped it 180 which moved… Owner We took the MAF out of the airbox and mounted it to the fender. With a little help from the heat gun the 3" Spectre intake boot slid r… Owner The air filter came with the plate and gasket that mounted right up to the MAF sensor. Search eBay for "air intake adapter MAF ranger… Owner We'll have to figure out a solution for the fan shroud since the fan is almost completely outside it. I've read that a fan clutch from a 20… Owner We used the Explorer's throttle cable but it angled upward into the hood too much so we cut the lower mounting ear off the bracket and cut… Owner The oil filler ran into the intake tube and I just happened to have a Buick 3.8 sitting on the shop floor and its lower radiator hose was t… Owner Another shot of the radiator hose attaching the filler tube. Owner Nearly finished. We were going to keep the A/C lines for potential future use but we're going to yank them since they clutter things up. A… Owner These 3 connectors were originally in the engine bay. The 4-pin square connector is used for the black/red wire to the reverse lights and a… Owner Overdrive cancel switch and LED. There was a big hole here already so in it went. The LED has a faint glow even when not activated so a bul… Owner This is the alternator charge light and it does need to be a bulb rather than a LED, preferably with a 470 ohm resistor in parallel in case… Owner OBD2 port (AKA DLC) for diagnostics. It has 3 wires from C115 and then a power and ground wire. Laying on the floor are the check engine li… Owner Eight lonely fuses, two relays, and a diode are all that's left. Owner Since the Bronco doesn't have a true RUN/START circuit from the factory, we created one with a bridge rectifier and a relay. Two individual… Owner The Explorer starter solenoid coil grounds through its case so we removed the paint from the wheel housing underneath it. Also grounded to… Owner This still needs a little cleanup but it's just a busy area for wiring. C115 splits into 3 groups here: -The 7 factory circuits to the PDB… Owner Arial view of the PDB. These wires now have split loom protecting them. To the right of the PDB you can see C123 which has the Yellow/White… Owner We had cut a section out of the throttle bracket at the bottom and weld it back together to clock the bracket down so the cable didn't poin… Owner The finished product! It turned out fairly clean but it sure would've made sense to paint the engine bay before we dropped the 5.0 in. Lear… Owner We were adjusting the shift linkage when a cloud of stinky smoke came out from under the hood. We feared the worst since it looked to have… Owner The test drive was awesome! This thing flies compared to when it had the 302 and C6. It even leaves rubber across peak torque in first gear… Owner