Thanks for the info on fellow Bronco peeps and the Rivnuts. Being very ginger handed with the visor. Gonna try to clean up the paint as best I can before putting it back on. I’m trying to figure out how to create some bolt caps for whatever I use to put it back on. 2 of the originals disintegrated when I tried to take them off. And most of the others received some damage to the white coating. Plus they most likely won’t fit any new fasteners.
Arizona Blue Line Build
My plan for my 92 XLT Bronco is to take it from mostly stock original to slightly custom but completely drivable and reliable. I’m calling it the Blue Line build because I intend for this Bronco to be the Ivory to my Ebony. The Ivory is Oxford White ext, charcoal int, with minor upgrades from stock to front suspension and 4” lift. The Ebony is my 2011 Crown Vic, retired Elkwood City, CA police car (black ext, med flint int, aluminum K9 box in rear seat area, P71 package). I am also retired LEO so blue naturally becomes the accent on nearly everything I own. My husband is just happy I don’t like pink! So keep watching for the changes and the blue!
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I lied. She was ready for exhaust, emissions test, and registration. After a quick inspection of brakes, steering and suspension, took her to get new exhaust and cat. Went without a muffler for now. Gonna give the ridiculously loud Mitsubishi speed racers that go up and down my street H-E-L-L for a bit before I put on a muffler. She’s loud and proud for now!
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She passed emissions test with flying colors! And it still amazes me that a vehicle made 10 years after I finished high school qualifies for historic plates. So she is now deemed road worthy by the State of Arizona!
But I’m still working on her. More to come…
She passed emissions test with flying colors! And it still amazes me that a vehicle made 10 years after I finished high school qualifies for historic plates. So she is now deemed road worthy by the State of Arizona!
But I’m still working on her. More to come…
Made a little more progress on Blue Line Bronco Project. Here’s the before.
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Got all the interior trim and carpet out.
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Cleaned up the bare interior. Patched 10 holes in the shell top with fiberglass repair kit.
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Taped in some insulation on the doors and the rear floor. Installed new original size door speakers.
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Deleted some jacked up hillbilly add-on wires under the dash. Deleted the 4 inch tall pieces of 2 inch PVC and 6 inch lag screws that were elevating the center console. And finally, installed the new front carpet, old filthy seats, and and new floor mats.
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Rear carpet and door panels will go in tomorrow. All the trim needs to be cleaned before it goes in and so does the seat upholstery. But the seats will wait until the new headliner fabric comes in. I'm planning on using some of it on the seats. So I will clean the upholstery parts I plan to reuse, then build new seat upholstery with a combination of original and new fabrics, add some foam to the seats, and rebuild the drivers arm rest.
Stay tuned! It's gonna get blue around her pretty soon.
Got all the interior trim and carpet out.
Cleaned up the bare interior. Patched 10 holes in the shell top with fiberglass repair kit.
Taped in some insulation on the doors and the rear floor. Installed new original size door speakers.
Deleted some jacked up hillbilly add-on wires under the dash. Deleted the 4 inch tall pieces of 2 inch PVC and 6 inch lag screws that were elevating the center console. And finally, installed the new front carpet, old filthy seats, and and new floor mats.
Rear carpet and door panels will go in tomorrow. All the trim needs to be cleaned before it goes in and so does the seat upholstery. But the seats will wait until the new headliner fabric comes in. I'm planning on using some of it on the seats. So I will clean the upholstery parts I plan to reuse, then build new seat upholstery with a combination of original and new fabrics, add some foam to the seats, and rebuild the drivers arm rest.
Stay tuned! It's gonna get blue around her pretty soon.
I’m So Excited! I’ll bet you sang that…I sure did!
My headliner and seat fabrics arrived from Great Britain. They are both VW GTI fabrics, same plaid, two color ways. The lighter one with navy stripe in it will be the headliners and sun visors. The black one with royal blue stripe will be accents on the seats and potentially on the dash pad, door panel accents, and maybe even on the center console lid.
I can’t wait to start glueing and sewing!
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I wasn’t expecting the fabric to arrive for another week, so I hadn’t started prepping the headliner boards. That changed today. Stripped fabric off both boards, and scrubbed the foam off the front board and sanded it. So serious headliner gluing should start tomorrow!
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My headliner and seat fabrics arrived from Great Britain. They are both VW GTI fabrics, same plaid, two color ways. The lighter one with navy stripe in it will be the headliners and sun visors. The black one with royal blue stripe will be accents on the seats and potentially on the dash pad, door panel accents, and maybe even on the center console lid.
I can’t wait to start glueing and sewing!
I wasn’t expecting the fabric to arrive for another week, so I hadn’t started prepping the headliner boards. That changed today. Stripped fabric off both boards, and scrubbed the foam off the front board and sanded it. So serious headliner gluing should start tomorrow!
Another day, another little bit of progress.
I got the cab roof paint cleaned up the other day thanks to tips from @BroncMom. Also painted the underside of the visor, also a tip from @BigBlue 94. Rivnuts and install tool are being delivered on Tuesday, so visor is going back on soon!
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I got the cab headliner fabric glued to the backer board. And got it and the upper trim reinstalled.
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Working on stripping the fabric off the sun visors to recover them to match headliner right now.
Stay tuned!
I got the cab roof paint cleaned up the other day thanks to tips from @BroncMom. Also painted the underside of the visor, also a tip from @BigBlue 94. Rivnuts and install tool are being delivered on Tuesday, so visor is going back on soon!
I got the cab headliner fabric glued to the backer board. And got it and the upper trim reinstalled.
Working on stripping the fabric off the sun visors to recover them to match headliner right now.
Stay tuned!
One sun visor done! One more to go.
I stripped the old fabric off the visors and held the naked visors in place inside the bronco to mark the location of the stripes so the plaid would match on the headliner and the visors. Then I used the cardboard as a pattern to cut the new fabric.
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I used instant bond fabric glue to adhere the fabric to the inside edges of the cardboard. Then I folded the cardboard around the hardboard inserts and hand sewed the two sides together with an awl and waxed contrasting thread.
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It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty spiffy!
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I stripped the old fabric off the visors and held the naked visors in place inside the bronco to mark the location of the stripes so the plaid would match on the headliner and the visors. Then I used the cardboard as a pattern to cut the new fabric.
I used instant bond fabric glue to adhere the fabric to the inside edges of the cardboard. Then I folded the cardboard around the hardboard inserts and hand sewed the two sides together with an awl and waxed contrasting thread.
It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty spiffy!
That is so cool! I never would have thought of lining up the fabric like that. Nice work....held the naked visors in place inside the bronco to mark the location of the stripes so the plaid would match on the headliner and the visors....
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