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“Wookie”1995 Ford Bronco

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1995 Ford Bronco - This is the reason for the wonderful time I spent on Saturday. What is depicted here is the cheap, Chinese piece of cr@p clutch slave cylin… 1995 Ford Bronco - Because I was in a hurry, I left the transfer case attached to the transmission for removal. Because its heavy and hard to stab back in pla… 1995 Ford Bronco - What is depicted here is the new slave cylinder placed in the bellhousing of the transmission. Notice that the old slave cylinder leaked fl… 1995 Ford Bronco - I've cleaned up the old slave cylinder a bit for disassembly. I want to know what makes these things tick. 1995 Ford Bronco - Depicted are the constituent parts of the clutch slave cylinder. I'm not sure about the proper terminology for the parts, but from left to… 1995 Ford Bronco - To remove the piston seal, I used a syringe with some mineral oil in it to force the piston seal out using hydraulic pressure. Despite the… 1995 Ford Bronco - This is the piston. Well, its less of a piston than an extension of the piston. I'm going to call it a "piston follower". The act… 1995 Ford Bronco - Again, its hard to tell from the pictures, but one can see the texture of the bottom portion of this piece. 1995 Ford Bronco - One of the burrs can be plainly seen in the upper "corner" of the piece. Lack of proper surface preparation and poor quality cont… 1995 Ford Bronco - This is the piston seal. The outer surface is supposed to provide a seal on the outer part of the housing, and the inner surface is suppose… 1995 Ford Bronco - The seal is quite flexible. 1995 Ford Bronco - Peering down between the outer housing and inner housing. This is where the seal is installed, and it moves back and forth (up and down in… 1995 Ford Bronco - As one can see in this picture, the burrs have cut into parts of this piston/seal. I also removed quite a bit of what I can only describe a… 1995 Ford Bronco - This 1995 Ford Bronco is captured in a scenic outdoor setting, its design. 1995 Ford Bronco - Gray 1995 Ford Bronco with spare tire mounted on rear parked outdoors. 1995 Ford Bronco - This is what I wound up doing with the front grille. It was originally that plastic-chrome looking stuff, but had chips and flaking. I sand… 1995 Ford Bronco - Once its off the truck, disassembly of the headlight trim and blinker housing is very easy. The housings came off before prep and paint, an… 1995 Ford Bronco - Another shot of the grill and the headlight trim. I damned sure wasn't going to sand everything back down to change it, so sparkly it remai… 1995 Ford Bronco - First things first. Since the truck will be getting paint, and I don't trust a body shop to do the right thing, I've stripped the truck dow… 1995 Ford Bronco - Even if I were going to paint the truck myself, I would still remove everything I can off of it. I'd rather 'take off' than 'tape off' when… 1995 Ford Bronco - The tailgate had a lot of paint chipping and pock marks that I thought I would address. Much like the rest of the truck, I ground down the… 1995 Ford Bronco - To keep the rust from continuing to form underneath I treated the inside of the tailgate with POR-15. There's more work to do in this regar… 1995 Ford Bronco - This what the panels look like. I could have replaced half the tailgate panel with what they sent me--I only remember ordering the lower st… 1995 Ford Bronco - More metal cut out, and more surface rust behind. 1995 Ford Bronco - And this is probably the largest section of rust that there was to deal with on the truck, although there were others as well. When I final… 1995 Ford Bronco - As with most of our trucks there was rust. The bulk of the rust was on the tailgate and the front driver's side fender. None of it was bad,… 1995 Ford Bronco - Same same. 1995 Ford Bronco - Unfortunately for me, I have too many Bronco's, and one has to go. And although I'd drive this truck for the rest of my life the way it is,… 1995 Ford Bronco - This is "Wookie" sitting about half way up Mt. Herman in El Paso county, CO, just outside of Monument CO. This has been my staple… 1995 Ford Bronco - 'Almost' finished. I hate body work. Everytime I think I'm close, I see some other minor thing that needs to be taken care of. Hood has bee… 1995 Ford Bronco - Not much to do here, but of course hail had to hit the ridge in the center of the hood, making repair a little more difficult. 1995 Ford Bronco - And then I just 'had' to do this. At least my welds held up nicely. I guess I'm getting a new tailgate. 1995 Ford Bronco - And then I just 'had' to do this. At least my welds held up nicely. I guess I'm getting a new tailgate. 1995 Ford Bronco - Tailgate I picked up at the Junk Yard. Incidentally, its in much better shape than the one that was originally on the truck (before I smash… 1995 Ford Bronco - This one had one little spot in the middle of the tailgate that was rusty. Lucky for me, the truck this was removed from had some sort of l… 1995 Ford Bronco - Prepping the rest of the tailgate. This tailgate originally came with a fancy cover. Not being overly fond of the cover, I'm going to be co… 1995 Ford Bronco - The metal underneath is prepped (no pic) and a new piece of sheetmetal cut. Tacked it into place with the MIG. If you're going to do this,… 1995 Ford Bronco - When welding sheet metal, its best to use the TIG. But, since I don't have any Argon at the moment, and I have plenty of 75/25 on hand, it'… 1995 Ford Bronco - Then we grind. And grind. And grind some more. Here we can see that I still have a way to go, but it's definitely getting there. Wear ear p… 1995 Ford Bronco - When done grinding the spot may still be somewhat visible. A very very thin layer of fiberglass should be able to cover up the imperfection…
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