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Got the big one all cleaned up and on the trailer thursday...  ...and spotted the driver leaf spring had a broken main leaf  Last year i broke the passenger side main leaf, so i guess this one was on borrowed time  thankfully i had another spare main, so the repair went pretty quick  lets try this again!  So we made it about 10 miles from Rausch Creek when the bypass hose for the heater core blew on the diesel and we lost a couple gallons of antifreeze pretty quick  Fortunately our buddy Jim was close by and he grabbed a barb fitting & some hose clamps from the store and we cut the bad section out, shortened it up and refilled the radiator. We ran the east & west sides of the Rausch Creek with Joe from Bock's Garage, his dad in his 68, and our buddy Jim with his 95. I didnt really take any pics during the trip. I brought the boy along with me for his first wheeling trip which he thought was super cool, so i kinda just hung out with him and made sure he was having fun  Everywhere we stopped he had to get his r/c bronco out and hit the trails to  We came down the Pole Line on the east side and he saw the big mud holes and said "I wanna go in the water holes!" and just like that it turned into a mud run! (i cant embed YT shorts videos so click here!) It was a pretty muddy day, but the little dude had fun so it was worth it  Now i gotta go outside and fire up the pressure washer!  Bumper's installed, now weve got to wire it up. First up, i found the pigtails for the OEM fog lights  I built a harness using them for both fog lights, plus a deutsch connector for the lightbar  This pic shows how tight the bumper & fog light is to the body, how i trimmed the fog light bracket for tire clearance, and the harness itself, safely tucked up out of harms way  ...and the tie-in for the light bar. I reused some old OEM wire keepers to keep the harness tucked up nice and tight  i bought a small 2-relay fuse box from Amazon  ...that i mounted here in some free space next to the battery  Im using 4 of the fuses. One for switch power, 2 for the two relays, and a 4th that i wired up now, but will be used for a future project. For control wiring, i found these cool flange connectors from deutsch that im using to pass power back & forth thru the firewall  From the firewall (under the dash) the wiring comes to this plug  which plugs into this 2-gang switch panel using a a pair of Carling Contura V switches  cut a hole in the dash to make some room...  ...and the switches are installed!  ...from the driver seat  ...and the completed project!     So i picked up this bumper off of a 2020 Superduty, probably a year ago now. Its been sitting in the shed taking up space. Well no more! We're going to get it installed on the 96 Bronco.  Since i dont have a diesel, ive removed the center air dam in favor of a lightbar  We're using these adapter brackets from Complete Performance, which basically make the bumper bolt onto the truck  Step one, get the old bumper off!  We have to trim the body a little bit to clear the bumper. Before:  ...and after:  Because im running a 35" tire with only a 2.5" lift, the corner of the bumper needs trimmed as well as part of the plastic bracket for the LED fog light needs to be trimmed. This is before:  ...and after:  both sides trimmed, brackets installed fog lights installed and ready to go on the bronco  ...and installed!  Next up: Wiring up the lights |