First drive in the B2

SmokeEater829 said:

About 2 weeks I bought an 89 4x4 Bronco 2. I was told that the clutch and throwout bearing were shot. So, I took the owners word for it, gave him a grand, loaded it on the trailer and came on home. Well, the clutch was shot, as was the TB. But so was the entire tranny.

Managed to find a rebuilt tranny with bell housing, cuz mine was shot, for $650. That includes a 2 year unlimited mileage warranty. Yesterday, made the 16 hour round trip to Florida to pick up the tranny.

Today we started around 8 am. Put in new flywheel, clutch and tranny. Rebuilt both power window motors with the 1/4 nut trick that I read on here. And installed new power steering hoses.

Finally got to take her out for a short test drive tonight. Definitely will be doing a new exhaust on it soon. Previous owner has what sounds like a NASCAR muffler on it. Too loud for me, so it's gonna go.
Maybe nobody cared to hear about this, but after looking at her sitting in my driveway for two weeks I was excited to get out on the road.

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SmokeEater829 said:

Well, I bought her with a 4" Superlift kit on it. Explorer wheels, 29x12.5 Super Swampers. PO told me that the front axle had been upgraded to a D35. He was gonna do an 8.8 rear, but never got around to it. No big plans yet, as it's mostly gonna be a camp/hunting truck.

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SmokeEater829 said:

I'm new to the B2's. How can I tell if it's a D35 or if he was bs'ing me? I had an 88 full size bronco years back, but first dealings with the little ones.

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SmokeEater829 said:

It's definitely a D35. 10 bolt pattern on front of axle and Warn manual locking hubs.

Thanks for that link. I gotta do more searching on this forum!!

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SmokeEater829 said:

The color is great. The previous owner painted it Ford Tractor Blue. It seems tough as hell.

Worked on a few more things today. Headlights are badly yellowed and have alot of moisture in them. Ordered a new pair of headlights and the trim bezels for each headlight. Also ordered the receiver hitch for the back. After hunting season, we'll be fabbing up a front reciever.

In the meantime, I gotta figure out something for a center console. There is nothing in the truck now, and having nothing to rest my arm on sucks bad!!!

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Catch22556 said:

You could always hit up a junkyard and find a center console out of an Exploder. There is plenty of room between the seats on both my B2's to bolt one up.

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