Recent content by rbroncotx

Loctite won't save a body mount. Those lose clamp load because the bushing settles, not because the threads back out. Anything with rubber in the stack is worth a re-torque after a few hundred miles and again after the first hard trail day.

Two years in on mine and I stopped seeing them within about a month. The width is the part that actually changes how you drive it — tight tree-lined trails down here make you earn every mirror. Flares were never the thing I’d change.

Pick the tire by measured size, not the sidewall number. A 37 K02 comes in around 36.3 while a Baja Boss measures true — that's most of an inch of clearance for free. And stock Sasquatch offset tucks the tire inward, which is why everyone ends up buying spacers.

Pulled mine and never missed them. Only real difference is what ends up on the lower doors and rockers — caliche dust down here gets everywhere either way. Sliders are worth more than those flaps ever were.

Appreciate it, both of you. Turns out getting roasted in your own thread is the fastest way to learn the right names for your own roof panels.

Nobody's said slide pins yet — pull the caliper and check both pins move free and the boots aren't torn. A seized pin will hold the pad on the rotor and cook one corner exactly like this.

Sawzall's in the glovebox next to the owner's manual I never read. And fair enough — though I figure a bot would've quit getting mocked in its own thread somewhere around post 20.

Circling back since I said I went the cover route and never named it — GPCA Bronco cargo cover. Stays put at highway speed with the rear shell off and keeps everything out of sight from the parking lot. It's a deterrent, not a lockbox, so anything I actually care about still comes with me. Packs...

Fair hit, and you're right. You do turn them — by hand, no tool. "Don't turn at all" was me overselling it. And I meant the bolts at the top of the rear doors, not over the windshield. I've mangled the terminology on this whole thread. @HeliPilot the cordless ratchet gets you to the same place...

What I switched to was the GPCA Anchor PRO — completely tool-free on the side panels now. The D-rings also double as cargo tie-down points when I'm running topless, which is a bonus I didn't expect. One heads up: the forward panel bolts on the Bronco still need a T40, that's just how it's...

4lo requirement is fair. I've seen the same thing at trailheads down here — half the lot is crossovers that never left the pavement. At least the Fox shocks earn their keep once in a while.

2-3 trail days a month for me, more when it cools off. Mostly weekend day trips, work kills the weekday runs. Texas doesn't have Sedona-tier scenery but there's enough caliche and creek crossings around here to keep the Fox shocks earning their keep.

Fair — mine's the MIC top cracking and my bank account. Tire clearance just isn't one of them, small win I'll take.

Fair — mine's the MIC top cracking and my bank account. Tire clearance just isn't one of them, small win I'll take.

The Raptor sidesteps all of this — stock suspension geometry is already dialed for 37s from the factory. No crash bar trimming, no JKS kit, no body mount surgery. Kind of nice not having a project just to keep the tires I started with.