Good enough for the bronco, that should hold.
Sloppy the Bronco
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nobody will ever see it once its in the vehicle anyway
I say that because my welds are not very beautiful either. I figure, as long as both pieces melted together with a little feed your good. I put a utility Harbor bed from one truck to another at my moms house years ago. Bed is still on, no rattles, cracks or shakes. I call it good as nobody sees that weld either. I was 1/8" off on the rear mounting holes, but you only know if you know... LOL
started learning from some dude who's got probably almost as many years experience fabricating and doing metal work as Ossa does piecing old honda's back together on how to fix my floor
I'm pretty sure they make the floor pans for those. Cut out, drop in and weld.....
Went to the junkyard today and snagged a drivers seat for the hinge and the seat base, also snagged a tach cluster
Took some pictures of some other cool vehicles there
Nash Airflyte that still runs
Mustang II King Cobra
58 Chrysler Imperial, my dad had one, he always talks about how beautiful the dash was with its purple illumination
Ford N-Series
And back at home, the bronco finally gets a usable drivers seat bolted in
Took some pictures of some other cool vehicles there
Nash Airflyte that still runs
Mustang II King Cobra
58 Chrysler Imperial, my dad had one, he always talks about how beautiful the dash was with its purple illumination
Ford N-Series
And back at home, the bronco finally gets a usable drivers seat bolted in
King Cobra. The car built for red light racing. Lost potential and a flop.
Farrah Fauccett sold that car with Charlie's Angels and the only reason why it was semi popular.
302windsor that was so choked it only carried the car to a whopping 100mph. My dad described it as a pinto with BNG and an 8track player. That same motor in a ranchero would embarrass corvettes though. The 4spd grinder box was a good one but without the proper gearing, carbs and exhaust the damn thing would barely idle.
Still a cool car and if you could drop a pony 427 in it and do the Penske suspension you had a killer car.
Farrah Fauccett sold that car with Charlie's Angels and the only reason why it was semi popular.
302windsor that was so choked it only carried the car to a whopping 100mph. My dad described it as a pinto with BNG and an 8track player. That same motor in a ranchero would embarrass corvettes though. The 4spd grinder box was a good one but without the proper gearing, carbs and exhaust the damn thing would barely idle.
Still a cool car and if you could drop a pony 427 in it and do the Penske suspension you had a killer car.
just fix the 302 (which Ford did and then "quit" on and the pinto mustangs went good. got one around the corner from me that has some thoughtful yet cheap fixes and a 9" reareand from a lincoln versailles. those rearends came with disks. still had to narrow it. moves really good in a straight line.
The early to mid 80's Impala with the 4v 305 and the TH700R4 went like a bat out of hell, in the pickup it was decent, but the 302 probably had a bit more torque to move the ford half tons. But the 305 was a very good motor, I even ran one in a stock car that ate up all the 350 and 400 sb's mostly because it would hit the redline at the time I shut down for the corners while the aforementioned engines had not quite peaked at that point. One weekend I set a track record during time trials, beat out all the other classes including sportsman with my little (slightly modded) "stock" 305.
Up until my dad caught super duty fever we had a large assortment of chevies, 305's, 350's, 454's, there was even a 307 in the bunch, although it never good even when it was running right, the 350's and 454's made good work trucks, the 305's were always the last choice.
but that was in a truck, not a race car.
No argument there, the 305 had good top end power, not great for a truck application. The ford engines seemed to hold up longer than the Chevy sb's especially on the lower end.
The locals love old chevy 350's, although most of them run around blowing oil out the tail pipe and running on probably like 60psi per cylinder if that.
Just always seems like the old chevy motors will run with a lot of shit "wrong" with them that a ford won't.