Ford Performance C-Brace install with hardtop

[derichio02]

Has anyone installed this on a 25 model? I know the 25 now has two dome lights on that panel and the kit would basically remove one of those lights? Just wondering if the 25 Raptor still has one dome light or two like the other models?

I'm going to try this out this week and I'll report back. Plan is to just use the newly provided part and tape off and reduce to one light ion the rear since they are useless anyway and dont put out enough light.

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[derichio02]

No videos existed of anyone installing the C-Brace with the hardtop on...at least, I couldn't find one. Got one with the JOLLY25 coupon code.

It is very easy to install as it turns out. The overhead panels are pretty forgiving and unsnap easily.

There's an online PDF with good instructions...just Google it.

Your door tool kit has an "L" Torx that makes this install a snap.

For panel removal did you just pull the coreners out and release the center portion?

 

[Robs94Bronco]

For panel removal did you just pull the coreners out and release the center portion?

Yeah, easier to get from each of the back doors. I just popped them open where they mate with center piece (the ends just fell out on their own). Just don't yank on the center piece too much - it's connected to the light. Pretty easy.

 

[Robs94Bronco]

@derichio02 Make sure you try to thread the bolts by hand in and out prior to installing the brace. I found two of those threaded inserts on the roll bar to be very tight. I chased them down with a tap.

 

[MDH]

For panel removal did you just pull the coreners out and release the center portion?

Yes. The side pieces pull out more vertically than they do laterally, and then the middle part comes out, but remember there’s a little plastic push tab right in the center securing the middle piece.. One of my side trim pieces just popped right out, but the other one would not come out and eventually the tab broke when I pulled it out and I had to get a replacement.

 

[derichio02]

Yes. The side pieces pull out more vertically than they do laterally, and then the middle part comes out, but remember there’s a little plastic push tab right in the center securing the middle piece.. One of my side trim pieces just popped right out, but the other one would not come out and eventually the tab broke when I pulled it out and I had to get a replacement.

Thanks, I'm doing this on a 2025 so there is no middle pin... we will see what happens lol.

 

[derichio02]

@derichio02 Make sure you try to thread the bolts by hand in and out prior to installing the brace. I found two of those threaded inserts on the roll bar to be very tight. I chased them down with a tap.

These are a M8 right for the chaser? or...

 

[Robs94Bronco]

These are a M8 right for the chaser? or...

Yup, just can't remember the thread pitch... M8x1.0 or 1.25.

 

[Robs94Bronco]

@derichio02 if you're near Garden Grove and would like some help or tools...come by my place.

 

[Larry Tague]

So what type of creaks and rattles while driving did it eliminate? I have an annoying noise coming from the rear window tailgate area while driving. Ford has looked at it once but not corrected on my 24 WT

 

[MDH]

So what type of creaks and rattles while driving did it eliminate? I have an annoying noise coming from the rear window tailgate area while driving. Ford has looked at it once but not corrected on my 24 WT

Hard to specify with precision, but before I had these I would get various little squeaking/rattling noises around the doors/windows. With these braces, I don’t have those noises anymore. To me at least it was a noticeable change and definite improvement.

 

[EilersPark]

does this work if you have the mabett 6.5" speaker enclosures? And or the enhanced rear dome light?

 

[Robs94Bronco]

does this work if you have the mabett 6.5" speaker enclosures? And or the enhanced rear dome light?

Look at my pictures ... I would say no.

 

[MDH]

does this work if you have the mabett 6.5" speaker enclosures? And or the enhanced rear dome light?

When you buy the c bow brace, it comes with a completely new center trim piece, and the upgraded rear dome light fit on that perfectly. Don’t know about the speakers because I have standard ones.

 

[Robs94Bronco]

.... I drove my '94 for 15 years.... Rattles and creeks are white noise to me.
Besides, the new Broncos are "modular" vehicles, you can take these things half apart.

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