1984 Bronco II resurrection

[JRR1285]

After nearly a year since starting this project, work on it has commenced again!

I am in the process of further cleaning of the engine bay and addressing some of the rust issues on the passenger fender area.

Here are a couple pics for now.





Tomorrow I plan on degreasing the engine bay one more time before painting it this week. I wanted to be as clean and thorough as possible. Engine is still in the garage sitting with it's heads and intake off waiting for new gaskets.

 

[JRR1285]

Made some more progress. Managed to redo all of the valve stem seals today and I painted the valve covers and oil pan with gold duplicolor.

Gold covers and pan. I plan on painting the engine block/heads black and intake a gray color. Air cleaner will probably be gold too.


You can see the new ones installed.


Disintegrating valve steam seals. Most of them crumbled when I tried to get them off.

 

[JRR1285]

After a very long hiatus work will be continuing this weekend. Way too much going on the last few years to give this truck any time.

I have since bought a house, changed jobs and we had our first baby in May 2015. Things have been crazy.

I will post some pictures of the current state of the truck. Hopefully everything is close to how I left it and I don't have to redo much. The engine is sitting in the garage fully painted and just waiting on the water pump and intake to be installed. I will hopefully have the engine back in within the next few weeks and I can get it on the road by the end of September.

I also have fully a fully bled clutch system waiting to be installed. It has been sitting on one of our benches since being setup 3 years ago. Very excited to see this thing going again.