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Bringing it back from the dead

freerider6_9

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City, State
Blairmore, Alberta
Year, Model & Trim Level
'86 Bronco 2
Well i might as well start out at the begining, I found this truck sitting out front of a friends house. I wanted it at a first vehicle. i instantly wanted it. my heart was set on it. When I got it it needed ALOT of work and more body work. I was so excited my camera got forgotten about and i dont have any pics of it at the begginging but i have some that are before i primed it and you can get a pretty good idea of what happened. Well next came rims. The local tire shop had a set that someone had ordered and that wouldnt fit so i bought them dirt cheap. that brought the first problem. they were 15X10s and had ALOT of ffset. so i had to get a minimum of a 10.50 wide tire and thats when i found out i could get a small size sx that was wide enough, I ordered those and realized that just was not going to work... so next was the body lift. And that pretty much concluded the bronco other than stereo and such.

The truck is a 1986 bronco B2

Body work that was done:
-Rear quarter panels from body line down were completly cut out and replased with the box sides off a 91 ranger
-Doors changed out to the 91 ranger doors along with newer door panels
-front fender bent back into shape
-dents from roof fixed up
-dents in hood fixed
-other troubled areas fixed/replaced

OH yea i was 16 when i did all this..


Getting it ready for primer, you can see the areas that were changed or fixed. they are already in primer. the origonal colour was the redish one:
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After the body lift and after the winter and such( I know i was kinda lazy and now i have to do some more fixing and prime it again) Just some poser shots. stock suspension,with sway bars still attached stuffing the tires:

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And a couple pictures of it muddy. The first and second ones are of it muddy when im swapping tires to park it to do the new transformation and the third is just us screwing around at a spot by our school that i got hung up on my bumper. sucked to get out and lock in the hubs lol.:

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Looks like a good start. Talking about bringing back from the dead, you should check out my build, you had it easy.
 






thanks man.I read alot on your build to. i looked at every registry on the site and they all look great. I am currently working on getting my doner ex but the seller hasnt been around i also found another ranger that has the M5OD in it so i might pick up that baby.
 






Ok well I havent done much updating for a while but ive been busy with work and such. I have accumulated quite a few parts for the old girl.

New parts:
91 explorer-axles and engine
4.88 gears
detroit trutrac
4 inch BDS suspension lift
35X12.5 MT Baja Claws
bushwacker cut out flares

None of this stuff is in the truck YET but over the next few weeks it will come



I also found out some information on the BDS lift bracket hitting th dana 35 housing. This is not true. It is the exact bracket that the explorer uses and it all measures up the same.

Ill try and keep up with my postings


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