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Ford Bronco Until the mid '90s, the Ford Bronco was famous for being a rough-and-tumble off-road vehicle that had been tackling trails and fording streams since the 1960s. It was also one of the first sport-utility vehicles: a versatile truck then described by Ford as being able to serve as a family sedan, sports roadster, snowplow or farm and civil defense vehicle.

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Old 07-13-2009, 06:29 PM   #1 (permalink)
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got one head done, and thats the best I could lap the valves, I decided to try to polish a spare distributor I had, maybe It'll get put in
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okie dokie so wen i throw my 400 in i should probably try and re connect all vacuum lines?

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yeah, that would be best
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Well, I got it put back together today.

I think I know why the last head job failed, it looks like they put the head gaskets on backwards. Then the heads didn't recieve enough coolant, got way to hot, and then cracked.

I put the dynomax headers on. They fit fairly tight. I plan to put full dynomax exhaust on this truck, but right now, I put turn downs on right after the headers.

I removed the automatic choke, the heat tube from the intake was broken in half, and I plan on putting a 4160 on this motor soon. I then removed the choke plate and the idle air control motor. The air conditioning compresser is missing and I probably won't be able to get the air back in working condition. With the choke plate missing, the engine is idling slightly lean, due to the missing restriction of the choke plate. I'll adjust the idle mixture soon, and maybe play with adjusting the accelerator pump. Otherwise the engine runs fairly smooth.

Next on the list is redoing the power steering pump brackets and cleaning up under the hood.

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oh, my sister ran the camera
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Sounds really strong and healthy!
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hey mark, i like your avatar, are you a linux or mac user?
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Well I got my plates today. I was headed back and the dang thing vapor locked really bad.
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