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Ford Bronco vs. Chevy K-5 Blazer
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<blockquote data-quote="FineLineMtrSprt" data-source="post: 14106903" data-attributes="member: 10257"><p>[ATTACH]13074[/ATTACH][ATTACH]13075[/ATTACH][ATTACH]13076[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Kinda partial to bronco's too lol. I bought the white with 98k miles on it.....sold it with 174k miles on it and the guy that purchased for his son gave me the third degree test driving because he couldn't believe how good it ran. He kept telling me I had the engine rebuilt, which I hadn't of course. Did help I worked at a ford dealer at the time so I had no problem keeping up with it. At 150k I did a trans service and my service manager said it was the best condition and shifting E4OD he had ever seen lol. Only problem with bronco's is how expesive clean ones are getting. every now and then ill jump on ebay to check them and always find 94-96 ones with avg miles for like 10k bucks AND MORE. Granted they are spotless but some of them are like WOW. </p><p></p><p>Only problems I had were I had to have the driveshaft rebuilt twice, but it wasn't exactly easy on it so I wasn't upset about. First weekend I got it went wheeling with some buddies. They both had lifted Jeeps....and they both broke something and limped home lol. All I did was dent my oil pan....got stuck in 25in deep mud a few times but I made the trip with no issues.</p><p></p><p>The Brown one I bought from a dr who had it as his severe winter vehicle. He bought it new and it was special ordered...base model with 351w 4bbl,heavy service front end and rear leafs,factory rubber floor covering and cloth/vinyl seats but with a full headliner. It rode HARD AS HELL but man it was a tank and I took it places it should have gotten stuck but didn't. One of trips I snapped a rear sway bar in half....it was discontinued by ford but I found a dealer 20 miles away that had one. When I called they asked me 3 times was I sure I needed the rear I said yes I broke mine. Was a long pause and then got " how in the hell did you break a REAR sway bar". When I got there to pick it up it had half inch of dust on it as they had ordered it by accident 10yrs earlier. I paid 2800 bucks for it and sold it for 3400 2 years later. All I put on it was a new carb and a wheel/tire package. Which I got the tires for 100 bucks and the wheels for 250.</p><p></p><p>At the time I was looking I couldn't find a fullsize blazer that did have massive steering issues,leaked coolant, among other things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FineLineMtrSprt, post: 14106903, member: 10257"] [ATTACH]13074.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]13075.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]13076.vB[/ATTACH] Kinda partial to bronco's too lol. I bought the white with 98k miles on it.....sold it with 174k miles on it and the guy that purchased for his son gave me the third degree test driving because he couldn't believe how good it ran. He kept telling me I had the engine rebuilt, which I hadn't of course. Did help I worked at a ford dealer at the time so I had no problem keeping up with it. At 150k I did a trans service and my service manager said it was the best condition and shifting E4OD he had ever seen lol. Only problem with bronco's is how expesive clean ones are getting. every now and then ill jump on ebay to check them and always find 94-96 ones with avg miles for like 10k bucks AND MORE. Granted they are spotless but some of them are like WOW. Only problems I had were I had to have the driveshaft rebuilt twice, but it wasn't exactly easy on it so I wasn't upset about. First weekend I got it went wheeling with some buddies. They both had lifted Jeeps....and they both broke something and limped home lol. All I did was dent my oil pan....got stuck in 25in deep mud a few times but I made the trip with no issues. The Brown one I bought from a dr who had it as his severe winter vehicle. He bought it new and it was special ordered...base model with 351w 4bbl,heavy service front end and rear leafs,factory rubber floor covering and cloth/vinyl seats but with a full headliner. It rode HARD AS HELL but man it was a tank and I took it places it should have gotten stuck but didn't. One of trips I snapped a rear sway bar in half....it was discontinued by ford but I found a dealer 20 miles away that had one. When I called they asked me 3 times was I sure I needed the rear I said yes I broke mine. Was a long pause and then got " how in the hell did you break a REAR sway bar". When I got there to pick it up it had half inch of dust on it as they had ordered it by accident 10yrs earlier. I paid 2800 bucks for it and sold it for 3400 2 years later. All I put on it was a new carb and a wheel/tire package. Which I got the tires for 100 bucks and the wheels for 250. At the time I was looking I couldn't find a fullsize blazer that did have massive steering issues,leaked coolant, among other things. [/QUOTE]
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