My 2001 Audi has given up the ghost. Well, not entirely, but it needs a new timing belt, new ecu, new brakes. Which is a lot of money to put into a car with 207K miles into it. Thinking of selling it first, or donating it if I can't sell it.

That leaves me with my 72 Bronco. I'd rather put my money into getting that fixed up instead. I love working on the bronco, but I'm not a great mechanic, so my urgency, I think is going to require that I bring it in somewhere to get some things worked on. My question is two-fold:
1. Can you recommend a cheap place to bring it. Or is there anyone who wants to take on a paid project. I have $800 in my budget, which might not even be enough.
2. Can you help me prioritize the following, which I want to get checked out / fixed.

Here's the list:
1. Getting a clanking sound from what seems to be the front, passenger side wheel. It gets faster as the car is rolling faster, but stops if I brake or accellerate. Had the U-joints looked at and was told that they are actually fine. ??

2. Getting another really weird sound from driver side rear wheel area. There is no rhythm to it, it is unaffected by speed, accelleration or braking.

3. I moved the shifter from the tree to the floor. In 4WD, though, the shifting is very hard, because the rods are being pushed by the 4WD shifter.

4. Blinkers don't work.

5. Death wobble at exactly 25 mph and goes away at 20.

6. I have a heater that I'd like installed.

Help is appreciated! Thanks,
Mark

Can you bring it to the tech day? We'll have lots of people there who can look at it. Some of them may even know what they're doing. Otherwise, I'd address the weird sounds first, as they're potentially safety related. Blinkers are a very close second for the same reason. Death wobble may not be hard to diagnose, and may be easy to fix. Heater is really easy if it's stock. Bring it by and we can take care of it. I'd deal with the shifter last since it doesn't affect your plans for daily use.

Feb 22 at my place in Lakewood.

I'm there! I'm free that day. Thanks. Can I get an address / time? Or a link to those details?

Which disc set up are you running?

Any chance the knuckle and caliper were not clearanced enough? Do your brakes ever hang up resulting in your having to hook the pedal with your foot and pull it back up?

1. Could be the pads bouncing along inside the calipers. I know mine does that. Does the sound go away with only the slightest brake pressure?

If you can get an eyeball on the pad/backing plate/caliper interface there should be bent flat steel shim wear indicator (I'm sure there's a real name for it) on the ear of the pad.