Project Black Betty // Sas, v8!

all pics will be in this first thread as well as other ones ive posted in



got the donor for $250, 84 bronco II with d44 lp, ford 9", 71 302, c4 auto with dana 20 t-case, also came with coil springs 3-4"'s bigger than my 4" coils with ttb


so heres the donor rig



d44 in it still


rear end out



engine is finally out!!!


same with tranny on our home made dolly


empty empty empty





heres a pic of the truck its going in (just with out the cap...)



front and rear end almost all stripted and ready for sand blasting and paint....



and heres my engine on the stand ready to get torn down and cleaned


got some new pictures of the engine hallf torn down











so i got the knuckles off here are some pics







and heres what happens when the axle had no steering stops



front end all disassembled time to start on the rear end heres a few pics








AND MY HOME MADE STOOL





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its made from an old ass harley seat lol

ok change of plans, im picking up a new ranger on wednesday for $100 nothing wrong with it but the bed is destroyed (i hope) so everything is going in that and im leaving my other ranger just the way she is.. cant wait!!

heres a pic of the new one



well found the reason my engine was blowing blue smoke... was cleaning the oil pan today and found chunks of aluminum ( just guess whats it from)


heres why i was blowing blue smoke

piston rings on 3 of the pistons were broken and they all have huge burrs on the edge of them (they were in there awhile or even reused maybe)


here are some progress pics



this is the one piston that broke



mroe block pics




and heres all 3 of the trucks.. tomorrow ill take pictures of the 94.....the new 5.0 and sas truck


got my 35" tires for $800 today and my new d20 t-case for $100 all rebuilt

front and rear end almost all stripted and ready for sand blasting and paint....



and heres my engine on the stand ready to get torn down and cleaned

and yes everything is in my house in my basment

I'm always up for watching a SAS. Going with leaves or coils? I need to sell some stuff so I can get my SAS done.

sweet stuff man hope your going with coils

yep coils

if anyone has some bolt on radius arm brackets lemme know i need some still

just got everything inside today.. starting to get really cold up here in vermont lol..... glad my basement has enough room in it for engine and drivetrain

get it done then give me the tires that are on your truck right now

haha...rims and tires going on my 2001 ranger.... im getting either 35x12.5" or 38x14.5" boggers i just need 15" rims for the axles lol

vermont isnt that far from pa

its still cold up here now lol

Looks like a great start, sweet deal on the B2

yeah its quite funny actually... $250 for the bronco.. it runs and drives the ONLY thing wrong with it is that the driver side axle shafts inner and outer the ears where the U-joints go are snapped off on the front end...

and everything looked like nothing would come apart easy but i started stripping it only broke like 3 bolts rest of it came out slicker than shit

MaGiKaLsHoTs said:

yep coils

if anyone has some bolt on radius arm brackets lemme know i need some still

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hey man why cant you use the radius arm brackets off the b2? or where they welded to the frame? a good cutting torch will fix that !

MaGiKaLsHoTs said:

yeah its quite funny actually... $250 for the bronco.. it runs and drives the ONLY thing wrong with it is that the driver side axle shafts inner and outer the ears where the U-joints go are snapped off on the front end...

and everything looked like nothing would come apart easy but i started stripping it only broke like 3 bolts rest of it came out slicker than shit

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Freakin steal of a deal... Woulda picked that up in a heartbeat if I found a deal like that.