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BuckSkin 
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 Topic: Blazers, Broncos, Scouts, and Ramchargers
Posted: 11 Apr 2025 at 9:42pm |
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Jerry Hall's 1983 Ford Bronco
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 12 Apr 2025 at 5:44am |
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I had a 79 Bronco for years. Been kicking myself for selling it.
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AcFordHawk
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Posted: 12 Apr 2025 at 7:43am |
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Nice 1983 Bronco! I owned several of the 66-77 Broncos in the 80's & 90's, from parts to runners. 302, column shift 3 speeds. Wish I could have kept one or two. Bought a 2024 2 door for a retirement toy, 2.3L 4 cylinder with 7 speed manual. 12 mpg vs 21-22 mpg and about the same performance for stock engines.
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 12 Apr 2025 at 12:51pm |
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I gave my to my oldest son if he would graduate from school. He still has it.
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DMiller
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Posted: 12 Apr 2025 at 4:23pm |
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Did not care for the Short WB Rides but had ALL the above, a 69 GM Blazer, a 75 Ford Bronco, a 79 IH Scout II, even had a chance encounter for a few months with a 78 Jeep Cherokee, buddy HAD to HAVE and sold it to him. TBH, Jeep was the best of All.
Edited by DMiller - 12 Apr 2025 at 4:23pm
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Posted: 12 Apr 2025 at 5:01pm |
I blasted the bare and completely disassembled frame and pieces for a 69 Blazer in November. The rolling chassis is back together and all mechanical underpinnings are connected. The owner is awaiting the new reproduction body being welded together in Ohio which commenced last week. This is their first Blazer and they were perfecting the jigs to assemble on as the stampings come from Taiwan and are made from the original GM dies.
From photos I've seen it looks very good.
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BuckSkin
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Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 11:55pm |
Saturday_22-March-2025
1963 Jeep Wagoneer
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Manufactured unchanged 1963-1991 through three ownerships; Kaiser, American Motors, and Chrysler.
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 7:12am |
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We had a AMC Jeep Wagoneer, bought used, that thing was a money pit. Bought in the fall, a few minor issues would always rear it’s ugly head, mostly electrical in nature. When the warmer weather arrived in the spring, there was no way to keep the engine from overheating. Tried everything imaginable short of an inframe. Had that thing less than a year.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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BuckSkin
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Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 10:23am |
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Had that thing less than a year. |
As people used to say "You must have got a lemon".
At least around here, they are some of the longest lasting, most dependable, most sought after vehicles around.
If anyone is ever fortunate enough to get ahold of one, they keep it to the grave and the descendants feud and fall out over it after the will is read.
I know several that had one when I was in diapers and are still driving them daily today.
Same goes for the look-alike Jeep pickup trucks.
However....., and I don't know if there is any relationship between them at all..., years ago, my father bought a 1981 (if memory serves --- it was a real Jeep --- not one of these Jeep wannabes) Jeep CJ-7 with inline-six and a 4-speed which I am told is a rare bird.
My nephew inherited it and still has it today.
Every mechanic in the country has tried his hand at fixing it --- I mean how hard could it be = all mechanical inline six with a simple carburetor and basic ignition.
That thing has never been trustworthy and has never ran right; it has hardly any miles at all on it for that very reason.
This story applies to it a thousand times = bring it straight home from the mechanics and then jump in it to run to the bank or post-office and have to bum a ride back to the shop and go after it with a log-chain.
I have done 100% of my own mechanicing since so far back I can't remember, but I have never put a wrench to that Jeep other than I did install a brand-new gas tank and fuel-gauge many many years ago; that Jeep was a family thing and I am not getting mixed up in any of those hornet's nests.....
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 1:29pm |
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The vintage of the one we had, according to the former AMC dealership, that particular engine that was installed, never should have been an option. Too small for what is was tasked to do.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 1:47pm |
Lars(wi) wrote:
that particular engine that was installed, never should have been an option. Too small for what is was tasked to do. |
Those vehicles are ideal candidates for a 4BT or 6BT Cummins or a Perkins of similar size.
Direct injection and all purely mechanical.
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Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 2:02pm |
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thats almost a socks and martin looking paint job on the jeep
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DMiller
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Posted: Yesterday at 2:06am |
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The AMC inline six was a Problem Child, GM and FORD had Access covers to remove the Lifters to replace a cam, AMC/Chrysler that part of block was SOLID Cast. Valve Guides were junk and soft, head work was a constant, then the Prestolite Ignition systems HOO BOY, what a mess.
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Posted: Yesterday at 12:25pm |
I had an 1969 AMC "Rebel" sedan with over 240K miles on the original and untouched 232 6 cylinder AMC engine. Had a CJ-5 with just about 200K with the engine tired but running well, abused, and never touched. Think that one was a 258 6 cylinder. I drove my Jeep Cherokee over 325K miles with the 4.0ltr engine which was the same basic engine structure as the 232 engine with a modernized cylinder head for fuel injection. It did not burn or leak oil, but I had replaced the rear main seal once. Rear spring hangers rotted out of that one so it was sold and the engine is running in another Cherokee to this day with almost 375K on the clock.
All these engines originated from the original six cylinder Jeep engine of the late 50's to early 60's. Hard to prove by me they were a bad, or problematic engine and I seen literally dozens of them in the late 70's when the 4X4 craze was really taking hold. Repaired quite a few Jeeps when about four years old with rust problems. Most were the 258, or the 304V8 engines with the occasional 360V8. Don't remember anyone have non traditional problems with the AMC engines. Worked on a lot or rural postal vehicles that were either Jeep, or former AMC state cars. Both the 232, and 258 six cylinders' were very good engines in the application. Lot of abuse endured in that duty with heavy loading, start and stop, etc.....
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Posted: Yesterday at 2:00pm |
Codger wrote:
I drove my Jeep Cherokee over 325K miles with the 4.0ltr engine which was the same basic engine structure as the 232 engine with a modernized cylinder head for fuel injection.
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We have had a Cherokee with the engine you describe and 5-speed for over 20-years, 1992-model if I remember correctly; it has almost 500,000-miles.
A local preacher has over a million miles on his and still heads out on thousand-mile-plus trips in it --- original engine.
Anyone around here I have ever talked to says those engines will last forever and they must.
Our only problem has ever been with that stupid plastic jug instead of a proper cap on the radiator; I keep intending on getting a radiator that has a cap.
Years ago, when I had no more extra money than I have now, they had kits where you could plumb in a radiator cap in the top hose; if I ever have the extra money to go that route, they will probably be obsolete and unobtainable.
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