Well I finally have my 30 posts so as I said in my introduction, I’ll post some more pictures about my Grandson’s and my 95 Bronco XLT recovery. I bought it new and it has 130,000 northeast miles on it and is showing it’s age. We have a lot of work in front of us. The only thing that will be slower than fixing up the Bronco, will be getting it posted up here, Ha Ha
So here we go. We knew it was time to replace the radiator support when we noticed the passenger side of the grille starting to list to the bumper and away from the hood. We decided to replace all of the body mounts at the same time. I also had a water leak on the motor so we figured it would be easier to pull the intake and heads while the front was off of the truck. We picked up a set of Prothane urethane body mounts off of Amazon for a decent price. We sprayed the existing mounts with penetrating oil for about a month before we started, hoping it would make things go smooth.
I picked up a good used support out of California off of Ebay, shipped to the house for a little less than an aftermarket support shipped. We cleaned it up and spray bombed it. We also sprayed it with flexible rubber spray all along the bottom and at the mounting points and radiator mounts.
It wasn’t too bad taking everything off to get to the support. We took our time, used a little heat from the torch, plenty of penetrating oil, and all of the bolts came out OK.
There wasn’t very much left of the support at the mounts. We zipped right through the support with a sawzall to get the support out.
There was no way the radiator support mounts were going to come apart the way they went together. It was a solid mass of rust! Heat and the impact wrench did nothing.
We tried to sawzall through them which was turning into an exercise in futility. Then I discovered the secret. Smack the mount with a hammer and it comes right out of the bracket! Oh joy!
That’s it for now. I’ll post up more as I can.
So here we go. We knew it was time to replace the radiator support when we noticed the passenger side of the grille starting to list to the bumper and away from the hood. We decided to replace all of the body mounts at the same time. I also had a water leak on the motor so we figured it would be easier to pull the intake and heads while the front was off of the truck. We picked up a set of Prothane urethane body mounts off of Amazon for a decent price. We sprayed the existing mounts with penetrating oil for about a month before we started, hoping it would make things go smooth.
I picked up a good used support out of California off of Ebay, shipped to the house for a little less than an aftermarket support shipped. We cleaned it up and spray bombed it. We also sprayed it with flexible rubber spray all along the bottom and at the mounting points and radiator mounts.
It wasn’t too bad taking everything off to get to the support. We took our time, used a little heat from the torch, plenty of penetrating oil, and all of the bolts came out OK.
There wasn’t very much left of the support at the mounts. We zipped right through the support with a sawzall to get the support out.
There was no way the radiator support mounts were going to come apart the way they went together. It was a solid mass of rust! Heat and the impact wrench did nothing.
We tried to sawzall through them which was turning into an exercise in futility. Then I discovered the secret. Smack the mount with a hammer and it comes right out of the bracket! Oh joy!
That’s it for now. I’ll post up more as I can.