It was good to meet and talk Broncos for awhile...I really appreciate the frame. I wasn't sure i'd be able to use it, but it worked out great. I'm glad I could just straighten the one rather than trying to weld 2 together and get it right. I owe you one!

Filled the bottle for the welder. Hoping to finish atleast the passenger floor pan this saturday after the breakfast since imnot workin.

I'll have to get back to you on that one...I just have the two bolts in it for now. I wanted to get both sides painted and the areas that are hidden by the windshield painted before welding it.

My plan though is to put both bolts in...then put some light tack welds at the ends. Hopefully its enough to keep it in the right place when I fold the windshield down to weld. And by the way...Im not planning to put nearly as many welds down as it comes with...38-44 spot welds is overkill in my opinion...especially when its staying in place just fine with just the two bolts on.

If you get to yours before I do, let me know how it goes. Thanks

Drove up to Roadrunner Fabrication and picked up my powdercoated cage:) Had 3 buddies over last night and we had the thing mounted and bolted down (28 of them) in about 1 hour. I couldn't be happier with it. We went for a drive and there wasn't one rattle or noise from it. Will post pics soon in the other thread.

Disassembled the front axle sans the carrier, ordered and received a master rebuild kit for the same. All ready now for the tech class next weekend.
Pulled the tranny pan and replaced the filter as well as pulled the reverse servo cover and replaced the seal.

Drew welded in the hitch in the rear bumper and all the end caps, it is done... (finally). Then we adjusted the track bar to bring the front axle over about 3/8" (new tires causing serious rub on drivers side radius arms... now need to re-center the steering wheel and alignment) but tire rub is the same both sides and very minimal. Spacers or more offset wheels will fix it.

Good thing we have the adjustable track bar - there is no more in it, shortest possible, and it is about 3/4" shorter than the stock one.

The Dana 44 is in with new Dom steering and wh springs. Those rancho lift springs are history and WOW what a huge difference.

Today plus a few before today:
• ’74 or ’75 Bronco Dana 44 w/3.54 gears (in progress)
• 2 – Jeep steering knuckles
• 2 - Chevy spindles and seals
• 1 – Chevy backing plate, 1 – Jeep backing plate
• 2 – Jeep calipers
• 2 – Ford hubs and rotors
• All new wheel bearings and seals

Coming soon:
• 1 – Jeep Proportioning / Residual Pressure Valve
• 3.50 front gears (if the R&P I picked up at a junk yard fit)
• NP435

Today finally made a t case shifter. A pry bar.just doesn't cut it.

Removed and replaced the fuel pump and filter. Got it running with no leaks and took the family to DazBog and the park.

I may not have 8 balls, but do have 8 lugs on all fours finally. Thanks to aka frank castle for gettng the 3/4 ton spindles and backing plates.

Going Efi is not cheap for sure.

Just drove it to and from work...but I have big plans for next week.

How many of you use your Bronco as a daily driver?

Well...if all goes as planned...I intend to get some bodywork done. Primarily replace the rockers which I've had for over a month now. There's just not enough hours in a day!

Got some safety upgrades done. Installed my shiny new 3 point belts to get rid of the dangerously mounted 4 point harnesses. Went through and replaced most of the mounting hardware on my roll bar. Turns out the previous owner didn't believe in putting washers between the body and the nuts, added some great big ones to reinforce the body a little.

Built a new track bar and mount. Wish I would have made a little taller, but functions good. No bump steer and took off my lowering bracket, since i have heard the horror stories of frames shearing apart

Also I did a little tweaking on a rail barrier at work.

I looked at it. :)

Hung out with a bunch of yahoos from here and decided to buy a locker!

Fun day indeed!

Matt

Picked up a Hurst shifter from Jason on here and cut my hole in the floor, mounted the brackets and fought with the linkage. Found some pics of the assemblies with linkage but it doesnt seem to want to fit right on mine.