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Install Battery and Prepare Engine Bay

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1968 BRONCO GOES TO THE CRUSHER?? OR...WILL IT RUN??

What happens here

The presenter opens the Bronco's hood, which lifts completely forward as there is no prop rod on this model. He then places a new battery into the battery tray on the passenger side of the engine bay. He connects the positive and negative terminals to the battery, ensuring the vehicle's ignition is off to prevent sparks or damage.

Goal: Provide power to the vehicle and gain access to the engine components.

Tools and materials

  • New Battery — Providing electrical power to the vehicle
  • Wrenches/Pliers — Tightening battery terminals

What they say

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I'll show you what's under the hood all right so under the hood will latch here and raise her up so there's no prop rod these old Broncos we just flipped the hood up it's like this this is a beast of a vehicle let's look at the engine real quick so underneath the hood here we have a 289 v8 engine it doesn't have any troubles for the other than it smokes like crazy when you first start it up so we're gonna put the battery over here we're gonna put the battery in the battery tray we're gonna hook the battery up and we're gonna pour a little bit of gas over in the carburetor just to see if we can get it turning now I've put an aftermarket electric fuel pump on here but for some reason it's not picking up fuel so I brought a little gas can down here with me to set in the fender will to try and draw fuel into that fuel pump and get some fuel into that carburetor and get this thing running so let's see how it works we're gonna use our Gator as a workbench here okay this guy down basically I've got the battery we'll set this over in the battery compartment just gonna slide on our negative and positive terminals will do our positive first then we'll slide on our negative and we've made sure that the key is off my dad did impeccable maintenance on this thing to lubricate it and keep it running

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