Nobody makes cushions to buy off the shelf, sadly. A wire wheel on the drill, a wire brush, about two gallons of Evaporust, and the frame was as good as I was going to get it without sandblasting them.Īfter the frame was done and painted, it was time to start on the cushions. ![]() Soon I was down to the rusty, dirty frame. The cushions were pretty much in the same bad condition. I picked each stitch so that I could use each piece as a pattern to cut the new upholstery. The seats were originally blue and I wanted them green. Restoring Bronco seats for my F150 - Ford Truck Enthusiasts Forums ()Ī couple weeks after getting them home I started taking them apart. Below is the thread I started on this project, but I will cover the basics here. I thought that $75 for the set was a good price for a gamble. The seats were there but the back top wasn't and the seat got soaked from being exposed to the rain. The body was really beat up and most of the interior was missing. A guy was dropping a 1939 Plymouth coupe body on a 78/79 frame and he was junking the Bronco body. Until good old FB Marketplace pulled through again. CT had zero parts Broncos and VA was starting to look the same. Ice is not fun to dig through.Ĭapt let us grow beards to keep warm while we were up there.Īnother thing I wanted was 78/79 Bronco low back bucket seats. Polar bear watch with his Mark 48 machine gun. About ten of us exit through the sail and start chipping away to get to the hatch so the rest of the crew could come out to get some sun safely. It was -35* in the middle of the day on this day. Here are some pics from my icy adventure. Not really a functioning scoop but it will. ![]() I do have the ducting for the aircleaner, actually have two, I got lucky.Īnd now, I have a hood scoop mounted on my truck. I will be making one because they are just non-existent. Now to be honest, I have not found the induction duct for the hood that goes to the air filter housing. You can see where I screwed up two holes but that will be fixed later. Measure four or five or seventeen times, cut once. Following pauli3wood's thread, I then cut the hole for the induction. All of our hoods have these marks.Īfter I transferred the marks to the hood and then I drilled them out. Underneath the hood there are two spots that are there to mark two of the holes. I made a template from a cereal box to transfer to the hood. Took it home to weld on some broken or rusted mounting studs and then primed and painted it. I snuck it into one of the shops at work and sandblasted it. So, I thought it was a good time to play with that. I had found a hood scoop from a 1960 Ford superduty truck that was rotting away the last time I was stationed there in 2016. F100 Crown Vic 460 Viking Build - Ford Truck Enthusiasts Forums () ![]() He did an amazing job using OEM parts (for the most part). If you haven't read it, you most definitely should. What I did next was something I learned from pauli3wood on his build. After that little underway, it was Covid season.
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