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- Joined
- Aug 26, 2007
- Messages
- 19
- Age
- 40
- Vehicle Year
- 1997
- Transmission
- Manual
I have been looking for a little off road toy for a while and happened to stumble across this bronco on kijiji. The add said it was running but needed some work, pic looked good and the lady sounded sincere. Told me the fuel gauge didnt work, the tranny stuck in o/d 
, and it might need a fuel pump. It was 150km away and 8pm on sunday when I got a hold of her, since I had to be at work by 4:30am I decided to drive out and look at it (3 hours of sleep, 13 hour shift 
)
Has a new radiator, hoses, tune up (plugs wires, cap, rotor, air filter and oil change) radius arm bushings, front shocks, wheel alignment, rebuilt rear diff, and new heater fan. It came with a new master cylinder, hatch pins, the spare tire rack and "a box of old stereo stuff in the back"
I talked them down to $400 and drove it home tuesday with no trouble. Here is a pic of my co-pilot and the 'wiggle wagon' moments after arriving home.
It ran good aside from an occasional miss (tfi??) and shifted fine, handled like a wet noodle and stopped... eventually.
Looking it over it needs rear shocks, drivers side main leaf spring is cracked dead centre over the axle, both outer axle u-joints are loose, and the fan clutch is seized. But on the bright side once I got home I looked in the 'box of old stereo stuff' and found a newer clarion cd player, 400w clarion amp, and a pair of 6x9's in boxes!
In the last three days I cleaned and painted the front bumper and installed a pair of 7" 100w spot lights. Replaced the hatch latch pins and aligned it properly. and started making a heavy duty rear bumper for the rear in my spare time at work.
Today I picked up up a pair of rear shocks, u-joints, fan clutch, and found a guy a few streets over parting out a 94 explorer that will sell me the rear leafs for "twenty or thirty bucks" and is gonna get them off for me this weekend
I am stoked!
One of the main reasons I wanted a little truck/suv is I picked up a set of 29.5x8.5 tsl's for cheap (off of kijiji too lol) I think the aluminum rims are too wide so I might pick up a set of steelies from the wreckers to mount them on.
Here is how it's sitting now, if it's dry tomorrow I'm going to cut polish and wax it to get some of the stick scratches out of it, the paint isnt in all that bad of shape aside from the hood and hatch being spray bombed which I will redo.
Thanks for lookin
Scott
, and it might need a fuel pump. It was 150km away and 8pm on sunday when I got a hold of her, since I had to be at work by 4:30am I decided to drive out and look at it (3 hours of sleep, 13 hour shift )Has a new radiator, hoses, tune up (plugs wires, cap, rotor, air filter and oil change) radius arm bushings, front shocks, wheel alignment, rebuilt rear diff, and new heater fan. It came with a new master cylinder, hatch pins, the spare tire rack and "a box of old stereo stuff in the back"
I talked them down to $400 and drove it home tuesday with no trouble. Here is a pic of my co-pilot and the 'wiggle wagon' moments after arriving home.
It ran good aside from an occasional miss (tfi??) and shifted fine, handled like a wet noodle and stopped... eventually.
Looking it over it needs rear shocks, drivers side main leaf spring is cracked dead centre over the axle, both outer axle u-joints are loose, and the fan clutch is seized. But on the bright side once I got home I looked in the 'box of old stereo stuff' and found a newer clarion cd player, 400w clarion amp, and a pair of 6x9's in boxes!
In the last three days I cleaned and painted the front bumper and installed a pair of 7" 100w spot lights. Replaced the hatch latch pins and aligned it properly. and started making a heavy duty rear bumper for the rear in my spare time at work.
Today I picked up up a pair of rear shocks, u-joints, fan clutch, and found a guy a few streets over parting out a 94 explorer that will sell me the rear leafs for "twenty or thirty bucks" and is gonna get them off for me this weekend
I am stoked!One of the main reasons I wanted a little truck/suv is I picked up a set of 29.5x8.5 tsl's for cheap (off of kijiji too lol) I think the aluminum rims are too wide so I might pick up a set of steelies from the wreckers to mount them on.
Here is how it's sitting now, if it's dry tomorrow I'm going to cut polish and wax it to get some of the stick scratches out of it, the paint isnt in all that bad of shape aside from the hood and hatch being spray bombed which I will redo.
Thanks for lookin
Scott
my old cotes tire machine cant get the tsl's off the old yota rims though lol. I cant wait to get it out on some trails, will have some muddy pics to post for sure.
