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Rickman Metisse

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Yes some of the roads here aren't very nice and the same is true for Arizona. Currently I-40 and I-17 near Flagstaff are brutal.

Vern in The Land of Enchantment.
Would you like red or green with your order?

My Ford truck is a 1985 F250 4X4 5.0 EFI AOD. My father was the first owner and I am the 2nd (1988-2003) and 5th owner (since 2017).
My other truck is a '08 Dodge Ram 2500 4X4 Cummins 6.7.
My other Ford is a '96 Taurus with 360,000 miles.

BigBrother-84

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Rickman Metisse wrote

Part 3
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Plus my wife is nagging me to do something with the truck.
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On the bright side I may finally have a fuel gauge which works properly.

You didn’t mention another bright-side: I suppose your wife was happy that the truck project was finally going on.

Maybe one day our lovely wives will start a thread in this forum where to share their frustrations about being to often a Bullnose Enthusiasm Widow.

Jeff / 1984 F350 Crew Cab 4x4/5.8L w351 4V/ T18/ D50 4.10 front/ 8' bed.
Restored 2019-2022.
Nicknamed «Big Brother 1984», due to its soooo-looong shape & nod to George Orwell's 1984 famous novel.

kanister

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Hello Jim and other Bullnose People

I'm Martin from Graz / Austria (maybe better known for you as hometown of the Mercedes G Factory and birthplace of Arnold Schwarzenegger

)

15 years ago I bought my first car... very unussual for european standards: a 81 Bronco

The previous owner(s) made some bad customizations and changed a lot in a stupid way. The last 10 years he is parking in a Garage and I only went for some offroad trips in the mountains. 2024 I start with a sort of rebuild and correct offroad-customization to bring my bull on the road again. It's a bit a problem in Austria, because this thing is here not really street legal.

I think I'm the first member from Austria here :)...maybe also driving the last Bullnose in Austria... I only saw one 10 years ago on our local marketplace.

So it looks like, I need a bit informative help from the Pro's (you) and maybe a way to get decend parts I can work with.

Thank's for organizing this Forum and greethings from the alps :)

Bronco / 1981 (my first car ever)
Mercedes 310 4x4 with Pinzgauer Transfers and G-Axle /1988
Nissan Navara D22/ 2004
Puch Ranger TM50/1986
Honda XR600R / 1993
KTM 250SX / 1987
Suzuki GS750 / 1976

Gary Lewis

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Welcome, Martin! Glad you joined.

Graz! Haven't been there but have been close as we traveled by train from Vienna to Venice and just returned from Switzerland. But you are right that we don't have other members there, as you can see on the map (Bullnose Forum/Member's Map in the menu). But we can put you on if you'd like.

Looks like a great project. I'm anxious to follow along.

Gary, AKA "Gary fellow": Profile

Dad's: '81 F150 Ranger XLT 4x4: Down for restomod: Full-roller "stroked 351M" w/Trick Flow heads & intake, EEC-V SEFI/E4OD/3.50 gears w/Kevlar clutches
Blue: 2015 F150 Platinum 4x4 SuperCrew wearing Blue Jeans & sporting a 3.5L EB & Max Tow
Big Blue: 1985 F250HD 4x4: 460/ZF5/3.55's, D60 w/Ox locker & 10.25 Sterling/Trutrac, Blue Top & Borgeson, & EEC-V MAF/SEFI

kanister

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Funny 😄, next time you visit our workshop for a beer ;)

Yes please, put me on the map... maybe "the other bronco-owner" in Austria will find me easier then

Bronco / 1981 (my first car ever)
Mercedes 310 4x4 with Pinzgauer Transfers and G-Axle /1988
Nissan Navara D22/ 2004
Puch Ranger TM50/1986
Honda XR600R / 1993
KTM 250SX / 1987
Suzuki GS750 / 1976

ArdWrknTrk

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Welcome!

That's a great looking Bronco!
I'm sure you'd have something to share with Rene.

Jim,
Lil'Red is a '87 F250 HD, 4.10's, 1356 4x4, Zf-5, 3G, PMGR, Saginaw PS, desmogged with a Holley 80508 and Performer intake.
Too much other stuff to mention.

Gary Lewis

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I'd love to do a European tour and meet all of you over there. As you can see from the map we have several members there.

Anyway, you are now on the map.

Gary, AKA "Gary fellow": Profile

kanister

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Thanks a lot! Which Rene you mean?

Bronco / 1981 (my first car ever)
Mercedes 310 4x4 with Pinzgauer Transfers and G-Axle /1988
Nissan Navara D22/ 2004
Puch Ranger TM50/1986
Honda XR600R / 1993
KTM 250SX / 1987
Suzuki GS750 / 1976

kanister

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In reply to this post by Gary Lewis

Thanks! You are very welcome, but give me some building-time, that I can join the trip with the Bronco, hehehe

Bronco / 1981 (my first car ever)
Mercedes 310 4x4 with Pinzgauer Transfers and G-Axle /1988
Nissan Navara D22/ 2004
Puch Ranger TM50/1986
Honda XR600R / 1993
KTM 250SX / 1987
Suzuki GS750 / 1976

Clutch47

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My 2nd day here.
I remember checking out this forum or something like it a few years back...maybe 8 or more..
I frequent grandmarq.net almost daily and FTE now and then too.
As it appears, this is all time tested HTML and it works and makes sense.

One thing I've seen being requested on other forums is a way to download or somehow save content. The idea is if the person hosting walks away, everyone loses everything.

Right now the uploading of a simple picture for my profile is kicking my tailgate.

There's my constructive criticism.
Be well and have a coffee ☕️

All Ford all the time.
83 F-100 300-6/C6
69 Merc Montego convertible 393 4V Cleveland
86 LTD Crown Vic 2 door sedan 347 AOD
03 F-250 SD 5.4 2V

ArdWrknTrk

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Rene H....

https://forum.garysgaragemahal.com/Restore-of-my-1986-Bronco-XLT-tp137348.html

He has questions, and answers to almost every aspect of his Bronco.

While you may not be close, you're at least 5.000k closer than most of us...

Jim,
Lil'Red is a '87 F250 HD, 4.10's, 1356 4x4, Zf-5, 3G, PMGR, Saginaw PS, desmogged with a Holley 80508 and Performer intake.
Too much other stuff to mention.

Gary Lewis

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Rene H, who is in Otzberg, Germany. East of Darmstadt.

Gary, AKA "Gary fellow": Profile

ArdWrknTrk

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Why do you have trouble uploading a photo?
The forum software is antiquated and only accepts 1Mb..
You can click 'large size' in the right hand column and it automagically gets resized.

Gary has explained to his wife and kids that the forum should be continued.
There's nothing here that you can't copy locally.
Gary even has a bunch of it OCR'd for your convenience

Jim,
Lil'Red is a '87 F250 HD, 4.10's, 1356 4x4, Zf-5, 3G, PMGR, Saginaw PS, desmogged with a Holley 80508 and Performer intake.
Too much other stuff to mention.

Gary Lewis

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Clutch47 wrote

My 2nd day here.
I remember checking out this forum or something like it a few years back...maybe 8 or more..
I frequent grandmarq.net almost daily and FTE now and then too.
As it appears, this is all time tested HTML and it works and makes sense.

One thing I've seen being requested on other forums is a way to download or somehow save content. The idea is if the person hosting walks away, everyone loses everything.

Right now the uploading of a simple picture for my profile is kicking my tailgate.

There's my constructive criticism.
Be well and have a coffee ☕️

The code for this site is old and proprietary. I've tried to port our forum elsewhere and have been unsuccessful. And I tried to run the code on my own server, to no avail.

As for the profile pic, that's a pain. I don't remember exactly how to do that.

Gary, AKA "Gary fellow": Profile

Clutch47

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Appreciate your efforts here.
The code is appropriate and reliable, just as the subject. How about that.

All Ford all the time.
83 F-100 300-6/C6
69 Merc Montego convertible 393 4V Cleveland
86 LTD Crown Vic 2 door sedan 347 AOD
03 F-250 SD 5.4 2V

BigBrother-84

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Gary Lewis wrote

As for the profile pic, that's a pain. I don't remember exactly how to do that.

For what I can remember, it's just a question of image dimensions.

Jeff / 1984 F350 Crew Cab 4x4/5.8L w351 4V/ T18/ D50 4.10 front/ 8' bed.
Restored 2019-2022.
Nicknamed «Big Brother 1984», due to its soooo-looong shape & nod to George Orwell's 1984 famous novel.

ArdWrknTrk

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But it's near impossible to size it from an Android device.

As I recall I had to ask Gary to size mine correctly even though id cropped it and scaled it to the proper # of pixels

Jim,
Lil'Red is a '87 F250 HD, 4.10's, 1356 4x4, Zf-5, 3G, PMGR, Saginaw PS, desmogged with a Holley 80508 and Performer intake.
Too much other stuff to mention.

grumpin

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Welcome!

Dane
1986 F250HD SC XLT Lariat 4x4 460 C6-Sold
1992 Bronco XLT 4x4 351W E4OD
1998 GMC Sierra SLE K1500 350 4L60E
Arizona

Rembrant

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Gary Lewis wrote

As for the profile pic, that's a pain. I don't remember exactly how to do that.

For anybody new trying to upload a profile picture, there's also an unusual delay that makes you think that you're doing it wrong. When you upload a picture, it shows as complete, but your old/previous picture still shows up...for how long I don't know. All I know is that when I come back to the forum a few hours later, the new profile picture will be showing. Maybe it's just me, but I always find it weird and just give up after a few minutes and leave it alone. The forum updates the profile picture at a later time.

1994 F150 4x2 Flareside. 5.0 w/MAF, 4R70W, stock.
1984 F150 4X2 Flareside. Mild 302 w/ 5spd. Sold.
1980 F150 4X4 Flareside. 300i6 w/ 5spd. Sold in 2021.
1980 F100 4X2 Flareside. 351w/2bbl w/NP435. Sold in 1995

BigBrother-84

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Gary Lewis wrote

For anybody new trying to upload a profile picture, there's also an unusual delay that makes you think that you're doing it wrong
[...]
Maybe it's just me, but I always find it weird [...]

Not only you Cory. You make me remember I also hit the same behavior.

Jeff / 1984 F350 Crew Cab 4x4/5.8L w351 4V/ T18/ D50 4.10 front/ 8' bed.
Restored 2019-2022.
Nicknamed «Big Brother 1984», due to its soooo-looong shape & nod to George Orwell's 1984 famous novel.

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