ranger/bronco?

[kmack]

if you have a ranger, could you put the body of the bronco onto it? and vice versa?

all 1st gen..

 

[Beanmachine7000]

You could take a Ranger and cut down the bed and put it on a BII
body...

 

[LittleHorse]

I suppose you could put a BII body on a Ranger frame, but you'd have to cut a section out of the middle of the frame and shorten it up. Otherwise the wheels wouldn't line up with the fender openings.

Me and a buddy of mine are about to take on a similar process - we're mounting a full size Bronco body onto a 3/4 ton F-150 frame, so he'll have an '81 Bronco with 3/4 ton frame, suspension, and axles. The frame will be cut between the axles and welded back together with the appropriate Bronco wheelbase, the Bronco cab and fuel system installed.

I've tried to talk him into keeping the Bronco frame and just taking the 3/4 ton rear axle, keeping the 1/2 ton suspension and frame, because the leaf springs on the 250 have NO flex, but he's one of those guys that gets some crazy idea in their head and rejects all efforts of injecting common sense into the situation. I'm just gonna help so I can be there for entertainment value.

 

[kmack]

haha one of those crazy guys...

well there is a plethora of rangers in this province's junkyards. i have a bronco 2 that i have no idea what to do with. its not quite sellable so i want to just do something cool with it and i was thinking of putting a ranger cab on it and throw a bike rack or something. just a strait bush pig!

 

[LittleHorse]

yep, that's been done. Seems like I've seen it a few times on this forum, can't remember anybody's specific usernames. Having no bed or body back there makes it pretty easy to get some crazy flex in the rear.

 

[kmack]

so i'm guessing everything will lign up well. does anyone have a pic of this done? i was considering just chop the top of the bronco aswell but i couldn't do it clean...