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Nice! Great job! Those white wagon wheels look good on your Bronco!

I hope it’s 2 or 3 years before I know!

I would disconnect the vacuum line to the EGR and plug it and see if that changes anything when it gets warmed up.

I really like Armor Plate batteries, but one of our local parts stores changed ownership and they don’t stock them anymore. I’ve used Autozone batteries and they’re good, their top of the line anyway. I’ve used Walmart batteries and they’ve been good. Right now I’m experimenting, two vehicles needed batteries at about the same time, one is Walmart and the other is an Interstate from our local NAPA. Be good to them, keep them clean and corrosion free, try not to deep cycle them, and they should last. I use CRC battery cleaner and CRC battery protector on the terminals and it works really well.

As I’ve mentioned before, I used small screws and nuts with washers I think. Hoping for less damage now and later.

You’s guys are funny! Those hasps are kind of a pet peeve of mine. Kind of like “it’s an easy fix!” Then why don’t you fix it?

A couple of these? https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-4-1-2-in-Chrome-Key-Locking-Hasp-13527/202950144

I understand about the garage with stuff being piled in there because of the Mrs.! I’ve worked on a few white hangar floors. With grit in it for non slip. Very expensive and done with machines. Saw one for the USAF Reserve done wrong and they had to do it over. When the last company I worked for built a 30,000 square foot hangar, it was built by the founder’s son’s construction company. I saw them painting the floor white with a special paint from Sherwin Williams. They did do their homework and prepped it. But when I saw them painting it by hand I told my boss that I didn’t think it would last. To my surprise 15 years later it was still good! One small area was a little messed up where some sealant came up. The non slip was nice if you got oil, hydraulic fluid or jet fuel on the floor where you were working. We had a maintenance bay that would look pretty bad after a long inspection. But our building maintenance man knew how to clean it, we had a Tennant walk behind floor scrubber, we’d come in the next day and it would be glistening!

I didn’t realize they weren’t available in 4WD, nice to get better rates on the toll road, or tunnel!

And Bill, all my vehicles are 4WD! Don’t want to live here without it!

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Very nice! But I was going to guess cup holder!

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https://reno.craigslist.org/cto/d/yerington-1986-ford-250/7287321541.html

That didn’t take long! Good thing is you found it! And the brake leak.

Good timing on this post. Used vehicles, especially 80’s and 90’s, are going through the roof on craigslist! Somebody had an 86, I believe it was, square bodied Chevy for sale. Looked nice, but I chuckled because he was asking $12,500 for it, then thought he might just get it.

As of a couple weeks ago, I am now in the last year of my forties;). No more gifts for me...lol. I want that wheel though! Thanks for sharing David! That wheel is cool and the cruise control is interesting. Veddy interresting! (Laugh In, Arte Johnson I think)

I'm sure I could get the pedal through the gap, but what doesn't show well is that the roll cage already encroaches on the door opening, so anything that the pedal came back would really be a knee-breaker. I suppose I could just view that as encouragement to always apply the parking brake! But I think I'm going to stick to the idea of moving the pedal inside of the cage After our first trip there (in September 2019) we had planned to go back in the spring of 2020. Well, like most people's plans for the spring of 2020, that didn't happen. So we're taking it off "pause" now! I guess I hadn't either. I didn't make the cage myself, I had a shop do it (a long time ago). I'm not sure right now why it's as far inboard as it is. It certainly made bending that bar easier (it has to be that narrow at the top so widening it at the bottom would've meant a compound bend at the bottom of the windshield). And it might have something to do with tying it in underneath (there's a body mount very close there, which complicates things, but also adds strength). But regardless, it's the way it is now. And as I think about this I remember that when I picked it up after the cage was built they suggested to me that I could just carry a 2x4 with me to push the pedal through that gap! I don't think I'm going that route! “And as I think about this I remember that when I picked it up after the cage was built they suggested to me that I could just carry a 2x4 with me to push the pedal through that gap! I don't think I'm going that route!” Which is probably what I would do!

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Looks good!

Good points! The Covid point is interesting, hadn’t thought of that. I read somewhere awhile back, either here or Hagertys newsletter that older vehicles are declining and this era is going up in some part due to people driving them in their teen years, either their first vehicle or their parents or grandparents vehicle. And now they are in a position, family wise and economically to afford to buy and/or fix one up.

Nice! And a 429!

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