Ever since I've owned my old Ford Bronco II its never had a working fuel gauge, problem is somewhere in the wiring which on this model is nothing but a giant cluster f#@^ to begin with  After a couple of deer and a guy t-boning me a couple years ago it sat for awhile as the insurance wanted to total it and give me a check for the book value...which is about 1/2 its value due to all the new parts and work that's been done to it in the past 4 years.  Ended up keeping it and after a lengthy court battle I managed to get the guy and his insurance company to pay up for the repairs which totaled around $3000. (His fault...hes the idiot that ran the stop sign ) But still no fuel gauge  Decided to put in a secondary, aftermarket, one next to the steering wheel.  Installing the gauge and running the wires was the easy part...

...2 weeks later when it came to dropping the tank and putting a new secondary sending unit in it proved to be a mistake.  The tank itself is only 3 years old, but back when we installed it dropping the old one was fairly easy...now there's dual strait pipes for the exhaust, and one just happened to take a turn and run right under the bolts that hold the skid plate and tank straps on.  Got the bolts off...but skid plate couldn't be dropped with that pipe running there  only way to solve the problem...cut the offending pipe just before the back axle right after the glass pack and shove it out of the way.  This worked, after a lot of sweat, blood, tools flying, and many choice words we managed to get the sending unit installed and the next morning get the tank back on.  Gauge works great, but that left me with a pipe on the loose.  A friend is going to weld it when he gets the time, but I just couldn't let it sit there and bounce around till then

3 Pepsi's and 30 cents worth of hose clamps later...Problem solved  Its not the best fix...but hey...it works


Its held for over a week, hopefully have it welded back together this weekend.  Unfortunately after 4 years of owning it and running up nearly 100,000 miles its time for it to move on, with everything fixed up and a good hard cleaning last night its ready to go on the market.  First vehicle I ever owned, but now my 92 Silverado suits me much better.  Many good times in that old thing, going to miss it...  For 332,000 miles its still a good vehicle, gets pretty decent mileage now that its been pretty much overhauled...just can't afford to keep 2 vehicles around anymore

lol, it's always good to come up with new and inovative ways to temporarily fix things! I'm sure anyone who's worked on a car before has come up with their fair share of these handy inventions that serve the purpose

Kind of like the clothespin heatsink my grandpa's 37 ford has on it to prevent vapor lock :-D

Those Bronco II's are a beast.  A buddy of mine used to have one we'd take off road.  Rolled it a couple of times, put it back on its wheels and drove away.  Once we even made it sit back on the rear by trying to climb too steep a hill.

the ole Bronc Deuce,  been years since I've seen one (they arent too popular in areas I get stationed apparently)  but quite a few of my friends had them in high school and a close buddy of mine that I was stationed with in Hawaii has his in storage up in Oregon, nothing but good things to say about the Deuce haha many good memories ripping up trails in Michigan.