Well I have had this 95' Bronco for the past 3 1/2 years now and realized that I and the Meat Team crew have put alot of time into her over the past year. I bought the truck for next to nothing as a beater. The truck was beat with rust on the hood, cracked grill, sloppy steering, shot wheel bearings, broke 4wheel drive and a loud tick. Had no intentions to put any money into the truck, just clean it up and drive it till the wheels fell off. I painted the hood, replaced the grill, polished the rest of the paint and gutted the interior and gave her good deep cleaning. The tick turned out to be an exhaust leak and was fixed asap and the automatic hubs were worn and replaced with manual hubs to fix the 4wheel drive. This all took place within the first couple of months of ownership and the truck stayed that way for the next couple of years. The truck hit a bad point last year when the steering was close to non responsive, the brakes would shake your teeth loose while making the cds skip and jerk the truck to the left or right (always a surprise), shocks didn't exist, and the wheels really were just about to fall off.
Just about a year ago I sold my nightmare of a cobra and was now left with one vehicle and a bike I never ride. Thought I could just be satisfied with the truck as is but it was getting real scary to drive and I convinced myself to upgrade everything rather then just replace, so the overhaul began.
Here is the good'ol b-hoe stock and scary and dirty
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clean
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stock and topless
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With the rest of the family before the break up
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more to come...

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The worst part of all the work we did, nothing was ever documented but I assure you that hours upon hours upon hours of work have been dumped into this truck. Most of the work will never be seen either but lets move on.....
I sold the cobra and I had a Bronco now that I let go for so long that it now needs justa about everything and more. First I needed rotors and pads..ordered.
Next was a drag link and tie-rod ends...ordered.

TIMKEN Inner and outer wheel bearings...ordered. Now for bigger and better upgrades...A 4in Superlift lift kit

6 new longer shocks

With the lift kit I also needed a steering stabilizer...ordered
Wish I had pictures of our weekend install but non were ever taken but during the install we noticed the rear leaf spring hangers were a bit rusted and one actually crumbled while removing the old leaf springs. Had to order new front and rear leaf spring hangers and we buzzed the old riveted ones off. New ones got bolted in and the rear went together smoothly and day one was over. The front was much more involved because of the new brakes, drag link, and wheel bearings going in. We dropped the front axle, bolted in the drop radius arm brackets, drilled and mounted the twin traction beam (TTB) drop bracket, put in the taller springs and bolted up the shocks...cake work! Then we teared down the hubs to install the new rotors and wheel bearings and slapped in new pads. Bolted up the new drag link and tie-rod ends, then finaly installed the steering stabilizer. Lift kit is done and time to mount the 35" Dunlop Mud Rovers. All in all, the new suspension went in smoothly and took us two days, a half keg and two 30 packs. Thanks go out to Viper Mike, Godfather (Jeffy), MC, PMDB (Phil), Troll(Ash), and Sausage for big help with phase one of B-hoe build off.
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Rides nice and tight, has steering now, and it stops (in a straight line!)

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After the lift kit install, it was time for a wheeling trip. My first didnt go well when stock
Stuck in the sand!
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I did much better with the new suspension and tires
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Next comes the rust repair, rust prevention, and sound dampning madness

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Man, there has been countless man hours invested in said B-Hoe. Glad I could be a part!

Don't forget subwoofer install!

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I may have some pics of the b-hoe somewhere with all the dynamat.

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-P.T.
Suede Headliners United Member

www.blowneuros.com

I started to notice that the truck was damp in some interior spots so another gutting was in order. I pulled the interior out and found some small rust spots on top of the inner wheel wells. I poked a bit with my finger and my finger went right through. I then determined the extent of the rust and with the help of Viper Mike and Mofo (PT) this time, the rust was cut out and new steel was welded in. Broncos bodies are known to rust and to prevent any future rust from happening, Sausage and I stripped the entire back of the truck down to bare metal. We the coated the metal with 2 coats of Rust Bullet

With the new mud tires, driving came with alot of hum. Since the truck was stripped, I decided to do some insulating. I did a bunch of research and decided to layer the truck with Fat Mat, a sound deadener material

The truck took almost 200 square feet of material. Jeffy, Sausage, Mc and I spent a total of 10 hours layering the truck from top to bottom with this stuff. We even did the inside door skins! PT find those pictures!

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The seats were out and the driver's seat was in bad shape. The leather was worn and ripped bad and the arm rest was just the same. Took the seat covers to the local upholster and had them match the old with a new. I purchased a seat heater kit and installed heater elements in both front seats.


and then there was heat.......in the seat!

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Those heated seats are HOT AS BALLS! It was nice!

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SHU188mph

302 or 351?

Split front axle thinger?

Looks great man.

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351 with the TTB (twin traction beam front axle) I hopefully am picking up a solid dana 44 front axle this sunday. Cant wait for the front axle swap!

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"It feels good on da balls" - the heated seats that is!

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Sweet truck, them TTB axles suck though. I'm glad your swapping in a 44, that should be soo much nicer.

Are you going to be keeping this thing? It looks really nice. Hows the MPG on this rig?

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Doesn't matter, it has a 33 gallon tank! ahahahah

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Keeping it forever. Building it now to be a rock crawler and a weekend toy. Until I find and early bronco for daily driving, this thing needs to be nice and comfortable. Mpg is 11 city or highway, dont matter. New axle means new gears and that should bring the mpg up a bit.

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You poor Bronco freak... This engineer at my work loves them too. So much that he has two. He has a 302 and a 351. His 351 is something special, like the last year they were made or something IDK.

Cool trucks none the less, and yours looks real good, and the build should be rock solid.

What do you want for a daily? Get an old one, swap in a 4.6L 6 speed and try to get 22mpg + haha.

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