narrowed bronco

[Gordon]

A bunch of people have been asking for pictures of my narrowed EB. I am gonna post em here to make it easier.

This is what it looks like now.
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The best thing I ever did is buy a new body to narrow and put on my bronco. After that I stoped worying about body damage on the old body. It made wheeling a lot more fun. This is what it looked like with the old body.
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The first thing I did to the new tub was bob it 8" I did that in one night (my wife was then my girlfriend and was working nights)

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After that I cut it in half lengthwise and left it hanging like this

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I mounted everything up with a 7/8 inch gap and then ground the gap to 1" so everything fit perfect.

I decided to make two cuts outside the body mounts on either side. I cut the wheelwels too since I wanted to keep as much interior room as possible. The wheelwels are pretty thin so to make the weld better I added a strip of metal under the butt joint to back it up.


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I cut off the part of the tub that the fenders and grill mount to. It was pretty rusty and I wanted to cut out the inner fenders for cooling anyway. I cut out the wheelwels so hopefully 38.5's would clear. The front tire in this pic is a 35 with no lift and no body mounts so -1" body lift. The cage is 2" .120 wall. I discovered that the most expensive part of rolling a bronco is the windshield frame, so I wanted a cage outside that but I didn't want a big exo that adds weight and width to the body. This is my land rover inspired cage.


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This is what the new body looked like almost a year ago before I took of the old body. I was gonna paint it shiny red, but body work sucks so I went OD Green.
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[liveaxle]

I don't know about anyone else but yor pictures aren't showing up for me.

[Gordon]

Damn you're fast. They should show up now only took 3 tries.

Here is how I did my rockers too. it is 2x3x.120wall welded to 2x2x3/16wall, so that it fits the contour of the bottom of the door sill. I think this comes out cleaner and more solid than the single piece of tube lots of people are using.
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[tommybronco]

man that is looking good. If i were to ever narrow a bronco i think i would kick in the front corners a little too and maybe the rear also. What width axles and tires are you going to be running? Lets see some more finished product pics!

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[rokcrln]

Nice job on the chop and sweet cage I am in the mind process still on a exo-cage but Hansen enterprises built one a few years ago for Rich that had that defender 90 look and it is the ticket!!
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[Gordon]

They are stock bronco width axles. I am gonna stick with the 44 since I got about 14 more spare short side shafts, I scored at a wrecking yard that was going out of buisness. The next tires I go with are gonna be 37 x 13 boggers or bigger, but I need to get a trailer first. I need to get some film developed to get some more of the finished pictures.

[tincan]

Are the short side axles on the Dana 44 more prone to breakage? You have a bunch of those suckers. Email me if you're interested in selling an axle.

[KingOf_Pain]

Cool rockers!
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[Gordon]

There are finally some finished pictures on the general board under the topic poser pics of narrowed bronco. Brian, the rockers worked out good I came down on one hard enough to pull the 1/2 inch body mount bolt through the washer and body mount it left a hexagon shaped hole in the washer where the nut went through it!

[KingOf_Pain]

If you came down on the rocker that hard, you must not have the "super" low gearing yet. Let me know (PM) if I can help get you a deal on a dual case setup.

Those poser pics made me pucker!