Hi, well my son Peter came home from college for a week and a half so we've been working on the Bronco. We started on Friday, May 19. Peter decided to clean and paint the whole engine and did a great job. By Sunday at lunchtime the new head was torqued down. During the past week we knocked out detail after detail, a couple of things each night after dinner. By Saturday May 27, all that was left was the fuel line and throttle cable. One surprise was the engine turned out to be a 68 170 from a Bronco, Falcon, or Econoline. 3 Freeze out plugs. C8DE 6015-A. So we got it fired up and it ran like crap. Really bad. No throttle response. But it would idle. So I'm thinking the carb is out of wack, and we can play with that. It warmed up and I want to check the valves, and it turns out I loosened 11 rockers during assembly and one was still tight. So I went for .020 on the valves, and the engine just woke up. One tight valve was holding everything back. We bumped up the timing and holy cow, we got a runner. Today, Sunday May 28, we wrapped up the throttle cable, set the valves at .019 (hot) and went for a ride. Well I gotta say, I couldn't be happier with the whole !@#$ thing! Enjoy some pictures of progress.
That's very nice work B RON CO that you and your son did "Sure is Looking good"! Glad to hear it also runs so much better With all your mods too. That's a great story and its quite a rare thing to have a vechical for so many years. Good luck, keep her going, and keep up the good work. 
