Recent content by ThunderFlash

@Altitude, thank you very much for posting this. Your efforts made it all very easy to order parts and perform the installation on my '22 2-dr HOSS 2.0 Wildtrak. :clap: For the sake of other interested parties, here is my story: I bought a used rear bar off eBay for $160 that included the links...

Curious, did you happen to have the windshield adhesion recall (Campaign 22C12)? That is one of my seven open recalls. It has a remedy, but the first dealership I went to said, "We don't do that one." Apparently it requires body work and they don't have a body shop.

BTW, this is one of the most presumptuous statements I have ever seen on this forum. In my time as an engineer, some of the most knowledgeable and skilled people I ever worked with were the hands on mechanics and machine operators in the industry...union kind of folks. I learned more from them...

My '22 was bought used with 12K miles and one poorly repaired chip and another chip that I repaired. My repair, my first ever, came out great. I struggle to find it. No more in the 18K miles since. Our '24 took 3 months and about 3K mikes to get its first chip. I repaired that, too. Not a bad...

Yes I have a degree. And I also have a Bronco with SEVEN open recalls. One of my recalls even left me stranded out in the boonies (low press fuel pump). These seven recalls are a small portion of the over 250 that have been issued over the last 3 years. Yeah, right, each one of these individual...

Absolutely, and it wasn't a cake walk then either. Mr. Mulally won my admiration when he sat in front of Congress and DIDN'T ask for tax payer money. I'd say he left Ford a much better company than when he found it.

Yup. That's the system. More than 250 recalls in the last 3 years is a bit more than just tough luck. It's more than a recall a week. I obviously don't work for Ford but I have seen this kind of thing in my own career. Authority can be delegated, responsibility can not.

Personally, I'm not blaming the CEO pay, I'm blaming the CEO. He takes that massive compensation package for "all the responsibilities" of running a big, complex company. When the recall problems are this prolific, it's a systemic problem and the buck stops at the top. I'm sure he will gather...

First, poking fun since everyone undeservedly :poop: on the 2.7L in the Bronco, mainly because of one early batch of bad valves from a supplier. Second, 🙃 is widely regarded as the emoji for sarcasm.

I have the much more robust and reliable 2.7L, but I'm curious. 🙃 In the Ford parts breakdown, is there a part number/name for the 2.3L "Engine Assembly"? I'd imagine it doesn't include ancillary items like the alternator, turbos, and various other gizmos? Or maybe it does if it's the same part...

OK, thanks @Jakob1972 and @BroncoStang. Maybe I just got to give it another go and just embrace the fact that it's going to take some force to assemble. The stock links have more articulation and go together pretty effortlessly. As I had it installed, I was trying to imagine how the link would...

Thanks for the reply! Your LCA clevis is in the same orientation as mine in the picture? I'm thinking I need to rotate the clevis clockwise as far as I can without the steel clevis digging into the aluminum LCA. It would be nice to be able to tighten that connection after everything is fit up.

@NMWildtrak or @crenca, any chance you could help a stooge like me out? Looking at my pic below, do I have the LCA mounting clevis oriented the same as yours? @Jakob1972, that is how yours is oriented, right? I got the links installed on my WT after A LOT of what felt like excessively...

I feel for Armadillo. Adhesion problems are almost always poor adhesive selection or poor surface prep. Both can be difficult to resolve. Most adhesives products seem to have at least one significant down side when compared to another product (longer cure time, shorter pot time, cost, smell...

Amazing. It's easy to blame one part of the organization for these things. If you've ever performed a Root Cause Corrective Action analysis on a problem like this, the answer(s) typically show that it takes a whole village to cause a major blunder. The fault or some portion of the fault...