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Thanks for the info. One of these days I'll have to actually do something instead of thinking about it.

1980's ford ignition switches are notorious for coming apart with varied symptoms. The '80's headlight switch (which contains the circuit breaker) is also a known weakness. Causes the breaker to trip with the high beams, and as time passes, with just low beams. Has happened to my F150...

Looks pretty dry.

That's interesting. Did you cut a section out of the shaft, or did you cut off the end of the shaft with the yoke and weld a new yoke onto the shortened shaft? How did you keep the driveshaft straight while welding? What rod and amperage, or tig? I don't suppose the piece removed could be...

Thanks again, dave. The OD swap doesn't make sense on paper, maybe, but living where I do, it's 20 miles to the grocery store, pharmacy, etc. The only road is a 2-lane "secondary" highway where the traffic runs at 70+. I hate to be a roadblock for my friends and neighbors.

dave, thanks for the reply. A Toyo Kogyo 4 spd is in it now. I found some pix on car-part.com which show the bearing in later years' flywheel. What pilot bearing did you use, the 1984 version? I have a 5 spd from a 1989 (Mitsu FM146), but would need different driveshafts. That may have to...

Gathering parts to replace the clutch on an early (09/83) Bronco II with 183k on it, and everywhere I look the flywheel listings only go back to 1985. I live out in the boonies and would like to have all parts on hand before starting the job. Thanks.