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“#5”1985 Ford Bronco II

documented by CapitalJ 107 photos documented since 10 years documented ♡ Follow this build

The story

Full size TSL Bogger spare
4 inch fender flares
Warn tabor 9K winch
2 inch James Duff poly body lift
Homemade bumpers and roll bar
1/4 inch steel rocker panel guards
Set of 4 pro comp ES-3000 long travel shocks
James Duff 3.5 inch lift early bronco progressive rate coils
2 inch extended shackles
Clinometer
Fire extinguisher
Grant steering wheel
Stainless hood pins
Removed rear top and 3 windows permanently
All the rest of the blue XLT interior was from the #4 parts truck, and doors and front driver fender from grey #3 truck.
I cut wrecked front passenger inner body out at door to center behind grill and replaced it with same piece from 1986 Ranger. — CapitalJ

Day one vs. today

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1985 Ford Bronco II in 2017
1985 Ford Bronco II in 2007
2007 2017

Photo history

107 photos across 4 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.

2007

30 photos added — showing 8

1985 Ford Bronco II — 500$ in and redy to tear it up, gettin ready for rear axle and independant front suspension removal. I bought… 1985 Ford Bronco II — I hung the cable from the ceiling and winched the front end up and down like 40 times, the winch did great. 1985 Ford Bronco II — just slide the dana 44 under it for the first time 1985 Ford Bronco II — Lots of goodies to remove, strange angle brackets and other IFS suspension components are all in the way, im… 1985 Ford Bronco II — I needed to add longer shackles in rear, it squatted a bit. 1985 Ford Bronco II — It had no brakes hardly but i had to drive it a little. 1985 Ford Bronco II — went right back in the garage 1985 Ford Bronco II — I had to cut the perches 3/4 around, taking note as to where the coil first touches them as the lowest point,…

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1985 Ford Bronco II — first trip to the chats. 1985 Ford Bronco II — wanted to see if anything was binding or had slack,obstructions, ect. 1985 Ford Bronco II — everything seemed fine, I have to do some front fender trimming and add a limiting strap up front. 1985 Ford Bronco II — I trimmed the front fenders after driving it off road. I used a 4 1/2 inch angle grinder with a cutting disk. 1985 Ford Bronco II — I tried cutting as little as possible. 1985 Ford Bronco II — I made a pattern from a piece of Tyvek house wrap, they match really well. 1985 Ford Bronco II — haha , I will paint it soon I guess. 1985 Ford Bronco II — another trip to the local chats, this time I see that my rear fenders rub.

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1985 Ford Bronco II — Remove the P.T.O cover to retrieve the roll pin and freeze plugg from the case. I used a telescoping magnet. 1985 Ford Bronco II — Remove the bolt housing the spring and ball , this is the gear selector placement. Now the shift rail should… 1985 Ford Bronco II — Drive in freeze plugg and use the same hole to drive in the roll pin that holds the shift fork to the rail. Y… 1985 Ford Bronco II — Grind the shift rail. You'll have to install the shift rail and roll pin a few times cuz you wanna try to gri… 1985 Ford Bronco II — I pulled this back out after it was correct right after I measured it in the previous pick. As your grinding… 1985 Ford Bronco II — Get an item such as an allen wrench approx the same size as the punch and reach into the p.t.o. hole and hold… 1985 Ford Bronco II — I made shift linkage from a 3/4 inch union pipe fitting and drilled it to install a keeper, then welded a tab… 1985 Ford Bronco II — I tried to thin two identical shifters as much as possible, and added metal bushings and a longer bolt. I als…

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1985 Ford Bronco II — New fabbed bumper 1985 Ford Bronco II — Threw some paint on it 1985 Ford Bronco II — Added bucket seats this summer and a set of 5-point belts. 1985 Ford Bronco II — Disney OK. 4/20/17 1985 Ford Bronco II — Disney OK. 4/20/17 1985 Ford Bronco II — Disney OK. 4/20/17 1985 Ford Bronco II — Disney OK. 4/20/17 1985 Ford Bronco II — Disney OK. 4/20/17
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