What did you do TO / WITH your Bronco today? 👨🏻‍🔧🧰🚿🛠

[TKE_273]

Got her a little dirty on the off road course at the @Diode Dynamics Open house!

Also took a tour of the Diode Dynamics facility and must say, it's one hell of an impressive operation with so much of the engineering and design, manufacturing, research, testing, etc done in house right here in Missouri.

Photo Cred to Garrick Vanderwall from Diode Dynamics.

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[lindertw]

Installed seat covers this morning (seat designs brand, $156 shipped from rockauto).

 

[Johnsolo_02]

Put in a stinger 12” box with a Kicker Key 500.1 today. Man does it sound awesome…

 

[Muddog899]

Since my daughter and son in law were using my truck to take my grandson to his heart appointment at the children hospital in hospital. Betty white was put into towing duty to take stuff to my shop while sell my house.

 

[Callelk]

Prior to my 8-day business trip I added M2M tailgate limiter and Rear Molle panel from BOF.

 

[taconic41]

Went to Lowe's and brought home some big 2x pressure treated lumber. Smaller pieces fit inside.

 

[BroncoRebelRunner]

Did these stereo and forscan updates over the last week. My Bronco has the base 6 speaker stereo, with no subwoofer.

I already installed Mabbet 6.5in pods in the rear a few months back. Those are loaded with Infinity Reference coaxial drivers. I sealed all openings from the inside with duct seal and aluminum tape. 1/4in thick hydrophobic Nomex felt was bonded to the rear inner surface of the pods to eliminate some of the high frequency diffraction.

In the front I installed JBL Club 64CSQ components. The woofers fit great with the supplied adapter rings. I added a PSA backed polyethylene foam gasket to the back of the adapter ring to reduce the kick panel cavity leakage as much as possible. I still need to go back and seal up the foam gasket that I used to get my woofer lead from the crossover to the kick panel cavity.

I ran the tweeter signal from the crossover up to the dash using some CL2 Monoprice speaker cable that I had left over from some home audio projects. To fit the JBL silk done tweeters in the stock location I had to fabricate some adapter plates. I’ve had some carbon fiber sheets that I snagged from R&D at work during a clean up in my garage for years, so I traced the existing full range outline onto that sheet and cut it out with a saw.

After initial set up I was impressed with the new sound, but the sound just seemed to be much stronger on the right side. I removed and swapped the old woofer back in multiple times, reverted and re-reverted Forscan changes, before finally realizing that I had the tweeter out going to the woofer and the woofer out going to the tweeter .

Once everything was properly connected, the sound is significantly improved. The stereo separation, imaging, clarity, and overall volume are vastly improved. I haven’t gone on the highway with no top yet, but it’s hard to imagine needing more volume than this. Deep bass is still lacking, but rock and metal sound very good through this system.

Forscan was updated to remove the rear EQ. I also set all speakers to “speaker.” Turned off double honk, added Bambi mode, and added two click panic button while I was in there.

I still plan to add a Clarion 5 Chanel amp to get some headroom on the speaker channels and let me add either a smaller sub in the stock location or build my own swing gate sub to use some vintage Sony Mobil ES 12” drivers that I had in my old 4Runner build.

I also picked up this KidTrax Bronco for my son’s 4th birthday. I’m thinking about trying to find some color matched paint to make it Cactus Gray. Might upgrade the stereo too, if I have enough time before his birthday.

 

[sabasigh]

Hi new member from STL, MO area.

Put on a set of Rynoskin hoop steps from AMZ. Not bad...i do like the textured lining.

 

[AKBronc49]

The snow is finally melting so it was time to pull the studded snow tires off. Slapped the factory Goodyears on for the 3rd season. Rolled 15,555.5 miles while making sure all the TPMS sensors would wake up after 6 months sleeping. Another month or two I can think about top off weather

 

[BeerRunner]

Went glamping in a yurt and drank a bunch of from my new portable fridge

 

[mikec426]

Did these stereo and forscan updates over the last week. My Bronco has the base 6 speaker stereo, with no subwoofer.

I already installed Mabbet 6.5in pods in the rear a few months back. Those are loaded with Infinity Reference coaxial drivers. I sealed all openings from the inside with duct seal and aluminum tape. 1/4in thick hydrophobic Nomex felt was bonded to the rear inner surface of the pods to eliminate some of the high frequency diffraction.

In the front I installed JBL Club 64CSQ components. The woofers fit great with the supplied adapter rings. I added a PSA backed polyethylene foam gasket to the back of the adapter ring to reduce the kick panel cavity leakage as much as possible. I still need to go back and seal up the foam gasket that I used to get my woofer lead from the crossover to the kick panel cavity.

I ran the tweeter signal from the crossover up to the dash using some CL2 Monoprice speaker cable that I had left over from some home audio projects. To fit the JBL silk done tweeters in the stock location I had to fabricate some adapter plates. I’ve had some carbon fiber sheets that I snagged from R&D at work during a clean up in my garage for years, so I traced the existing full range outline onto that sheet and cut it out with a saw.

After initial set up I was impressed with the new sound, but the sound just seemed to be much stronger on the right side. I removed and swapped the old woofer back in multiple times, reverted and re-reverted Forscan changes, before finally realizing that I had the tweeter out going to the woofer and the woofer out going to the tweeter .

Once everything was properly connected, the sound is significantly improved. The stereo separation, imaging, clarity, and overall volume are vastly improved. I haven’t gone on the highway with no top yet, but it’s hard to imagine needing more volume than this. Deep bass is still lacking, but rock and metal sound very good through this system.

Forscan was updated to remove the rear EQ. I also set all speakers to “speaker.” Turned off double honk, added Bambi mode, and added two click panic button while I was in there.

I still plan to add a Clarion 5 Chanel amp to get some headroom on the speaker channels and let me add either a smaller sub in the stock location or build my own swing gate sub to use some vintage Sony Mobil ES 12” drivers that I had in my old 4Runner build.

I also picked up this KidTrax Bronco for my son’s 4th birthday. I’m thinking about trying to find some color matched paint to make it Cactus Gray. Might upgrade the stereo too, if I have enough time before his birthday.

Forscan changes work for the audio of 2022 models now?! Woohoo! I made those changes about 2 years ago when I got mine and noticed no difference in the audio.

 

[BroncoRebelRunner]

Forscan changes work for the audio of 2022 models now?! Woohoo! I made those changes about 2 years ago when I got mine and noticed no difference in the audio.

I definitely noticed quite a difference in the rear speaker output when I turned the EQ off. I used the fader to check the rears before and after. The low end was improved significantly. I still feel like the sound output is somehow diminished compared to the front speakers. Could just be due to the larger cavity of the kick panel vs the Mabbett pods. Or it could just be simply due to the distance difference from the speaker to listening position.

 

[Aonarch]

Prior to my 8-day business trip I added M2M tailgate limiter and Rear Molle panel from BOF.

Opens wallet. Sigh.

 

[Rumbloki]

SVC 2" perch collar lift. edit: 1" Titan wheel spacers.

 

[Dover]

SVC 2" perch collar lift.

Notice any difference in the handling?

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