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offroad-list Digest Sun, 04 Jun 2000 Volume: 2000 Issue: 077

In This Issue:
Interior Work and Batteries.
Re: Interior Work and Batteries.
new F250...a couple questions

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Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 16:45:32 -0700
From: Adam McLaughlin jps.net>
Subject: Interior Work and Batteries.

Summer is here! I want to play with the baby bronco 2 these months. I
have been planning and working on her a little to get her ready..

First things first. Question: Can I wire two different types of
batteries in paralell? For example, can I wire an optima and a

Interstate together in parralell? I want to mount a spare, extra battery
in the back of the bronco 2 inside a Summit Battery box.

I got my duff body mounts on Friday, along with new I beam bushings. I
bought the whole set of body mounts only to replace the front two, right
behind the bumper. I wanted to replace them all after finally getting
those front two in, but after trying for an hour and a half to remove an
old one I gave up. How in the heck are you supposed to remove the stock
bushings? There was a paper in the duff box about how to do this, but
after many, many tried with a punch and hammer, I couldn't get them to
budge whatsoever.

It's nice to have the front end of my truck now bolted down to the
frame!! Ha ha ha. That thing was free flying for so long. Handling is a
little bit better now. I
couldn't torque the new bushings to "factory specs" like the
instructions tell you to, no matter how many washers I shimmed the
bushings with. They just kept
crunching, so I figured let's get them tight and leave well enough
alone.

I also removed the factory carpet, masked off around the moulding and
painted the floor in Herculiner. That came out great! I used the whole
container designed for a full size truck bed on the floor only of the
bronco 2. I laid it down thick! Three coats and extra thick where your....

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