Well crap!! Yeah, I’m sure the ignore goggles are on. Sorry to hear that happened man, that sucks! Hope it’s fixable.Nah, I just need to point out the major suspension failure that I just had which put the shock thru the rear of the frame. I suspect that @Ford Motor Company has me on ignore.
Any luck jumping it before you had it towed?Towed it to the dealership, parked it for 2 days, and had a completely dead battery.
Nope nothing squirrelly, just easing through obstacles at a nice slow pace. Did a large amount of riding the day before and started hearing a very minor clunk intermittently towards the end of the day. Next morning looked at the fasteners and grabbed the cv shaft and all looked/ felt fine. Wrote it off to normal cv shaft end play. Should have put a wrench on the ball joints, maybe would have been able to tell the upper left ball joint nut / threads were failing idk.
Probably a dozen Jeeps and 4-runners passed me while working to get it off the trail and heard several comments like “look another broke Bronco”. It’s quite embarrassing but completely my fault for not at least rechecking the torque on those reused fasteners when I installed the Eibachs.
Stock UCA's? Stock shocks? Curious to what caused this. Also interested to see if it's repair will be under warranty if it's the stock UCA/UBJ.
Great pictures, Jim. We hope you enjoy many more adventures in your Bronco!Took a morning drive in Los Padres NF.
Nope nothing squirrelly, just easing through obstacles at a nice slow pace. Did a large amount of riding the day before and started hearing a very minor clunk intermittently towards the end of the day. Next morning looked at the fasteners and grabbed the cv shaft and all looked/ felt fine. Wrote it off to normal cv shaft end play. Should have put a wrench on the ball joints, maybe would have been able to tell the upper left ball joint nut / threads were failing idk.
I hate that it happened, but the UCA was obviously unbolted at some point to get the aftermarket coilovers installed. It looks like it wasn't torqued correctly and worked loose causing the thread damage - not seeing how that could be Ford's fault...
Did you go with the PowerTank CO2 setup? I've been really pleased with mine so far.
Generic version my shop buys. It comes from same Tank supplier PowerTank uses. Still need to use the same brackets from PowerTank. 2 Door is rear floor mount only and I got the bracket for the Fire Extingisher for the Mol panel too. I would not give them the $255 they wanted for the extinguisher from PowerTank. I will find that way cheaper. Saves about $400.
Yesterday. Went here, then later on Imogene did this.
Yeah, I already had the tank and the extinguisher, but bought their mount and really like it. I ended up using the fire extinguisher bracket to mount a Pro Eagle air jack instead, then mounted the extinguisher to the roll bar.
