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Arctic_fox

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ok guys i need some help lol i recently inharited a 1977 bronco sport and i need some help >.< i'm not at all rich and i'm only just 16 lol and ya anyway my grandfather parked it for 20 years and now the wireings shot the engins posibly shot but i have no clue as like i sead >.< i'm 16 and have no knowlage of engins and ya i need some advice and if anyones in the utah area near salt lake or ogdon and has a good knowlage of engins i would love to have you come look at it and give me a damage assesment so i can tell if its totaled or i can fix it but ya i would love to be able to salage it from the dead and get it on the road lol anyway pm me if you have some advice or posibly some spair parts you were just going to toss laying around lol j/k on that last part

 

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For starters, how do you know the wirings shot? and how 'bout the engine? First of all I would try and turn the engine over by hand, first by the belts, but I doubt that will work, take a ratchet and put it one the crankshaft bolt and turn the engine over that way, you should have to pull the sparkplugs to so you are not fighting compression. If it turns over we can help. write back when you have tried this, and I will watch for your response

 
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err <.< the engens coverd in abought an inch inch and a half inches of dust hard as rock and and there are large partches of rust on some of the peices plus my couson took it apart before i got it and put it in the trunk and i know the wireings shot cuse when i looked the wires are so britle they snap in half when you touch it and yea if anyone knows where i can get an entire new engen that would help cuse i aint seeing one on the bronco graveyards sight

 

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Wow, sounds like a project. My buddy and I pulled a 65 Ford pickup out of the weeds and gave a squirt of oil down each cylinder, did an oil change, gas change and it fired up. Didn't even have to touch the carb since the air cleaner was on. You never know, but yours sounds rather rusty.

 
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actuly its in good shape just needs new wireing and posibly a new engin granted the body is rusted as are a few peices that my cusion left out but theres not much rust relly save on the carbirator but it shouldnt be problem but like i sead my grand father parked it for 20 years and let it sit in the middle of the arizone desert unprotected so it probly just has dust all over the engin but becuse i dont know much about engins yet i have no idea if the engins shot damaged or just needs to be reasembled to start up again it would be good it its fine cuse its all stock according to my mom but we dont know what my cuson did to it so were not shure of that

 

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Thats a truck you will want to keep forever, Save some money for a few years. Give yourself time to really plan this out. If you hack it up as a teenager you are going to want to shoot yourself when your older. My suggestion would be to learn about vehicles, engines and everything, Even take a course in school, Let the truck sit. It has already sat for 20 years so whats a few more. Dont rush it or it will be in the scrapyard within a couple years. Take your time and do it right.

 
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lol i know that i do want to keep this truck its been in the family for a long time and well i'm already takeing auto tech one this year so i'll know a few basics and i relly do want to keep it and dont worry i dont plan to rush and accadently destroy it and should i need a new engin i plan to put the origional aside with hopes of salvigeing parts from it to keep as much origional on it as posible lol too bad i cant find the vend number on it (the one on the door was jimmied off years ago and the one in the glove box if it is one was papper so it just disinitragrated before i got it

 

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Look at the frame for the VIN...look on the inside of the passenger side, right beside the starter/under the pass floor boards. A 77 is going to start with something like U15GL.

Your best bet is to sit down and make a list of things you want to do to it. Something like this:

Replace rusted floor boards

Rebuild engine

New Transmission

Lift

Make an entire list of EVERYTHING you want to do and next to each item, find the price for everything and put it down on paper. Then you have something to shoot for and as you go along, you will know what kind of funds you need. I would also put your list in order of when you want to do them and don't stray from that list because when you get money to do one thing, you tend to skip around and then the thing gets cobbled up. Just be patient and it will come to be done sooner than you realize if you stick to your guns and save your money.

 

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