Bronco 2 trail/desert....any questions?

[trentongodley]

Hi, just thought I'd share my 86 bronco 2 build, feel free to give any suggestions or ask any questions.
Not sure if the pics are working yet, but they will be up soon if not already.
So, I have been trying to build a trail/desert vehicle, and this is what I have so far.
Started with an 86 bronco 2 STOCK
Rather then state every turn the rig has taken, I'll just go ahead with what it is to this date...
86 bronco 2
4.0 ohv, ported polished smog eliminate ecu, headers wrapped, cully ballanced.
M50d Trans
Bw1350 transfer case
Built wrangler drive shaft
8.8 rear end, from. 96 explorer 4.56 gears and true trac
D35 from 93 explorer with 4.56 gears, true trac
Sky jacker front arms and cross member
Skyjacker 4inch lift soft ride reqr springs with beltech shackles
Shocks up front:
12" king 2.5 dual rate coilovers with resi
Giant motorsports shock hoop
2.0 FOA bumps
Strapped at 16" of four wheel drive travel
Rear suspention:
14" FOA 2.5 remote resi
2.5 foa bump
Strapped at 13" travel
Steering:
Stock box and pump
Single swing set with hiem joints all around
Exterior:
Bushwhacker fender flares
Stock tire carrier
40" LED light bar
Interior:
Full roll cage
Rear shock hoop
3 seater w/5 point harnesses all around
12" sub/amp
Smitty build center consul with seat heater switch
Raptor liner on full tub
I'm sure I'm missing a lot, but this is the most of it, if you have any questions or suggestions feel free to let me know.

 

[85b]

Sounds like an awesome build. Can't wait to see the pictures

 

[Grunizzle]

Definitely want to see the pics

 

[4.0B2]

Pics man Pics

 

[stegomon]

 

[trentongodley]

Cant get any pics to download, keeps telling me errors... any suggestions????

 

[4.0B2]

Cant get any pics to download, keeps telling me errors... any suggestions????

how are you trying to do it?

I use this method:
for computer:
http://midsouthjeeps.com/forum/topic/12770-how-to-post-pictures/

for iPhone/iPad:
http://midsouthjeeps.com/forum/topic/12772-how-to-post-pics-from-iphone-or-ipad/

 

[trentongodley]

Hope this works

 

[CurtisP87]

Nice rig!

Id love to see some more details about your steering set-up. My geometry is all sorts of stupid, your set-up looks like a good solution.

Welcome to the forum.

 

[trentongodley]

It works really well, no noticeable bump steer at all, what do you have on your set up so far, the single swing is really not to hard of a set up to get right.
Do you have lift brackets, I ask cause I do, and that did make for a tighter situation, but still very doable.

 

[jhammel85]

Very nice!

 

[Jim Oaks]

Pretty interesting. Did you fab up the steering setup? I'd like to see more photos of the full steering setup.

 

[trentongodley]

I have built everything on the car except the cage and the steering, main reason is I don't trust my welding to my life or others.
The steering was my idea after weeks of deciding what would work best, after doing some very basic drawings, I had a local fab guy put in into reality, he drew it on a cad cam system so all parts could be laser cut to weld, and he could check for clearances and rang of motion.
I do not have the car cam files, but let me know and I can list the dementions and I will put up some more detailed pics of the front end.
As I stated earlier, I have drop brackets, this made cleard few pretty critical,
And i am using the skyjacker 6inch extreme drop pitmen arm, with drop brackets and a sinkhole swing set steering, that extreme drop pitmen arms is a MUST for proper steering geometry.

 

[trentongodley]

More steering pics

 

[Jim Oaks]

It would make a great feature at broncoiicorral.com. What brand LED bar is that?

 

[CurtisP87]

It works really well, no noticeable bump steer at all, what do you have on your set up so far, the single swing is really not to hard of a set up to get right.
Do you have lift brackets, I ask cause I do, and that did make for a tighter situation, but still very doable.

I Do have lift brackets. 6" skyjacker up front, with stock steerting setup... :icon_rofl:

Thankfully it only sees the street to and from the trails, it takes some concentration to keep her goin straight....haha

 

[trentongodley]

The light bar is from a guy selling them on race dezert, so it's a knock off no name, but it does just as well as a rigid IMO.
I had it for about a year, and have used it many times, it's only a flood, but allows for 40mph saftly in the desert.
For the steering, I had stock steering for a while, when I added the extreme drop pitmen arm, there was a huge difference, way more control on the street, however, I do pretty much daily drive this rig, and my tire life on the front outer corners was pretty bad.
After switching to the swing set steering, it is awesome, way better off and on road handling, and suspention movement it WAY SMOOTHER.
So far I have had it on for about 2000 miles of street driving, and about 300 miles of offroad, both trails and open desert, and have no signs of premature tire ware!

 

[Grunizzle]

Nice setup, very sweet rig

 

[4x4junkie]

Sweet setup for sure.

I just noticed your location... You're probably about 10-15 miles north-west of me lol.

 

[bobbywalter]

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its a 3 thumbs up from me......