It's ALIVE...IT'S ALIVE!!

cherokee · Post by **cherokee** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:24 am

I just wanted to post a quick thanks to this site. Thanks to you folks and your past threads I have been able to get my ole 88 Bronco II back on the road.

The old girl has 234+k miles on her, a bit of a rod knock (for about the last 60-70k miles), just a bit rusty, and has a soft cyl. But I did not know that a bad O2 sensor could cause the driveability problems I had. That simple 30min change took care of all problems. (know I know why I hate computer cars....give me a carb anyday)

I just wanted to say thinks again for the help.

Post by **Nobody** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:52 am

Thanks for the report. Always nice to hear when someone solves their problem!

CraigK · Post by **CraigK** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:25 am

cherokee

Glad to hear you are on the road.
Just curious though. . . the site lists your thank you post as your first and only post. What problem(s) did you solve, and what name did you post under?

CraigK

cherokee · Post by **cherokee** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:16 am

CraigK wrote:cherokee

Glad to hear you are on the road.
Just curious though. . . the site lists your thank you post as your first and only post. What problem(s) did you solve, and what name did you post under?

CraigK

It was my first post, I just used the search feature looked up my problem and away I went. I wish all boards where as well setup as this one is.

The problem was that the Bronco ran very poor. No power, would crawl along at 45mph WOT then boom off it would go...then no power again. It always ran great till the thing got warm. The PO had butchered the engine wire harness (for god knows what reason) I spent a couple of weeks replacing butt connectors with soldered connections and weather pack connectors. Still no luck. I figured it HAD to be what this guy did to the truck. Then I started looking on the net. I found that a ignition module could cause the problem after it got hot, or it could be an O2 sensor. I replaced both as well as plugs, cap, rotor. (might as well while you are back there) I fought getting the O2 out of the truck so I did everything else first...still ran like junk. Got the biggest breaker bar I could fit under the truck put my foot on the front axle and pulled with everything I had, still stuck. Got a pipe to put on the breaker bar and figured if I broke it or stripped it I would just drill a hole weld a bung on there and start from new. well is squeeked and came free. I bet it had been there for 20years. Replacing the O2 did the trick and it runs great again...well as well as it can for 230k miles.

Thanks again for the great board.