Carb question

[Racerdave]

I recently Got a holley 500 and put it on my 81 bronco with a 351 m and i was wonder if they make a throttle kit and trans kit for the kick down it has an auto trans

and my fender wells have some cancer and i was wonder if anyone knows where i can find some fender flares

heres a pic of the bronco

 

[Broncobill78]

Ok, here are the short answers to your questions.

*** ? Yes and here, take a look: http://www.truckaddons.com/Catalog/subpage...fenderflare.htm

Really don't know what you mean by throttle kit but explain further & I'll look.

Tranny kick-downs are available from Holley & any of the major online speed shops

Bushwacker flares will allow you to cut out that cancer AND run bigger tires without a lift kit (but if you run a lift kit you can run even BIGGER tires, it's a great upwards spiral)

P.S. if you want you can cut out that hole behind the door & poke your exhaust out thru it for a killer look and also tuck it up & out of the way.

 

[Racerdave]

Ok, here are the short answers to your questions.
*** ? Yes and here, take a look: http://www.truckaddons.com/Catalog/subpage...fenderflare.htm

Really don't know what you mean by throttle kit but explain further & I'll look.

Tranny kick-downs are available from Holley & any of the major online speed shops

Bushwacker flares will allow you to cut out that cancer AND run bigger tires without a lift kit (but if you run a lift kit you can run even BIGGER tires, it's a great upwards spiral)

P.S. if you want you can cut out that hole behind the door & poke your exhaust out thru it for a killer look and also tuck it up & out of the way.

thank you see i didnt know if it was a kick down or not im new to broncos ive had ALOT of mustangs and my dads had an f150 since 96 so has for the mechanic this aint my first rodeo just never delt with anything this old

ps do you know where i can get the kick down part for my carb

 

[Seabronc]

Any Holley dealer will have the kickdown kit for the carb. It adds a few pieces to the throttle linkage

 

[Racerdave]

Any Holley dealer will have the kickdown kit for the carb. It adds a few pieces to the throttle linkage

thanx for the help i have one more question i have a 93 ford f 150 i just discover my bronco has ALOT of rust i mean the floor pans are gone and i was wondering how hard it is to put the f150 cab and front end on the bronco

 

[Seabronc]

thanx for the help i have one more question i have a 93 ford f 150 i just discover my bronco has ALOT of rust i mean the floor pans are gone and i was wondering how hard it is to put the f150 cab and front end on the bronco

Why not just replace the floor pans, they are available from jeff's Bronco Graveyard http://www.broncograveyard.com

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[Broncobill78]

WOW, that's a LOT of work, and not just work but fabrication. A real lot. Did I mention that something like that would be a LOT of work ? A real LOT of work ? Like, way more work than it would be worth. An insane ammount of work for a floorpan problem.

It would be a whole lot less work to just get a new set of floorpans, they're available from the Graveyard as previously posted and they're also available from any number of other vendors. You could also hack the floorpans out of the F150 & transplane them to the Bronco, if they don't go back far enuf to take care of all the rust you can always fab the rest with sheet or floorpan patch panels, but just for the floorpans I can't imagine anyone wanting to get into the level of cutting & fabricating that it would take to graft the F150 cab onto the bronco tub. Now *maybe* if you had a crewcab F-truck and wanted a superBronco or somethig but outside of that there's just no way in the world it's worth that much time & bull$hit.

 

[noahsdad86]

So bill, is that like kind of a lot of work, or really alot of work I did not understand. HAHA just kidding. Hey If you can then yeah put in new floor pans, but if you are not good at that a lot of little welding shops could do the work for you. Probably would not cost too much, at least it would not cost you another truck anyways.

 

[Racerdave]

Well i just figured it would be that bad a buddy of mine rolled his k5 blazer and put 1500 cab on it and had custom bed made

 

[Broncobill78]

So bill, is that like kind of a lot of work, or really alot of work I did not understand. HAHA just kidding. Hey If you can then yeah put in new floor pans, but if you are not good at that a lot of little welding shops could do the work for you. Probably would not cost too much, at least it would not cost you another truck anyways.

HEY, Man I put in an *entire* floorpan for a 78' using nothing more than poprivets. Admittedly I offer a heartfelt apology to whomever now owns that truck but ****, even with rivets it would be an easier job than sectioning both rigs and trying to put them back together into some reasonable faxcimilie of a Bronco. TIG is the way to go if you're doing it yourself but even then it's a good 30hr job, *double* that if it's your first floorpan. That's one of those jobs that's actually *worth* paying someone else who can do it better than you to do. I can tell you this, it's a stone cold fact that it'll be a LONG damn time before I put in another full set of floorboards myself. Patches are one thing, a whole freaking floorpan in another. I've gone that diamond plate route too, you wind up wearing your a$$ out with that torch & maul trying to replicate the factory contours. Never again, isn't that what they say ?

Oh yeah, and you're right. It's a LOT of damn work.<grin>

 

[Seabronc]

By the way, that truck has the same cancer mine had. Actually the same as 99% of the NE Broncos have. It is actually a designed in flaw that Ford put in to sell more Broncos. Check out the gap in the rear wheel well mud guard,(more appropriately called mud collectors, if you ask me), what a stupid design. It allows the tires to fill the B post up with mud and salt which sets there and slowly eats it's way out. The same for the rear end of the quarter panel. I redesigned mine, after doing the body, work to fix those areas so the mud guard seals up against the quarter panel. Made mine from 18 wheeler mud flaps, a little stiff, but workable.

A couple of pictures of the process for your entertainment. The first picture was after removing a giant plug of bondo someone had painstakingly shaped to look like a real lower door post. The last 3 are the new mud guards.

Good luck,

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[noahsdad86]

Damn seabronc you are handy iwth the sheet metal. All I can say is thank god I live in california where that kind of rust is rare. I only have to worry about getting the snow and salt off after offroading.