Possibly so, seems like a pretty remote place for a kid's fort unless it was reasonably close to a homestead or mining camp? I knew some people that raised a baby javelina as a pet, and it turned out to be illegal to have, so instead of just dumping the poor thing in the middle of nowhere...
Don't worry, this forum has perfected the art of creating cringeworthy portmanteaux and acronyms for everything related to the Bronco. Without doubt, it will certainly be something horrible, whatever it ends up being called.
Lots of old stuff can be found in deserts, simply because it doesn't rot in the dry environment or get covered up by vegetation. Deserts aren't typically considered tourist destinations except for a few popular places, so a lot of the old stuff is still there to find. I've found tons of things...
Yeah maybe I should've clarified. Rather than the strap going to two recovery points, the strap would have to loop around a single shackle in order to get a triple line on it (the other point needs to be free for the pulley). That would give it a much narrower angle than what it has currently...
Blowing a fuse doesn't damage anything else that it's protecting. Breaking a tie rod can and will damage all sorts of stuff, including the rack, before you have time to react.
Mount the winch directly to the plate, then invest heavily in snatch block pulleys, soft shackles, and extra winch line. One pulley is going to up your effective rating to 11K, two pulleys up to 16.5K. It'll take you forever to winch out with a double or triple line, but it's going to be about...
Even Washington (particularly the Channeled Scablands) and Idaho (southern half) have deserts as well. Idaho has some great dunes actually (St. Anthony). Pretty sure every state west of the Rockies has some sort of desert or arid countryside.
Well...technically the clamp is directly related to bushing replacement, and if it were easily replaceable and inexpensive while still sealing well, it would make inspecting the bushings a little easier too.
If the nut is torqued to 100ft/lbs and you set your wrench to 80ft/lbs, then all that's going to happen is that the wrench will click without moving the nut. If you set it above what it's at, say 115ft/lbs, then the nut is going to turn before you hear the click, however much it takes to get to...
LOL what
Why should the winch be on #1? That's ridiculous. You technically don't even need to wire the winch to the switches in the first place. All winches use a relay for power so they're not drawing that 300-400A through a switch, and battery disconnects are no different. You're looking at...
Set it at a lower torque and work up to it if you want to figure out what they're currently torqued to. Lug nut torque is more of a range than an exact number, so it's not absolutely necessary to be precisely 100ft/lbs, they usually don't stay torqued at that exact number until after you've...
It would have to be in a location where only water could reach it when actually submerged, rather than anywhere water could splash up on it. Using a switch is the simple way, yes.