FoMoCo rep called me this morning. He understood the question(why the 7.5qt initial fill and 7qt service fill for almost 2 years?)but had no answer. Heās referring the question to engineering and said I should hear from them soon.
He did say he was āallowedā to confirm that either 6 or 7qt...
That would be interesting to see Rob.
I have sent a request to FoMoCo asking them why they use/used a 7.5qrt initial fill on the 2.7 for the first two years.
They responded this morning saying they would get back to me asap.
I got the email addy from my brother who is a Ford dealer.
We shall seeā¦..
Hardcore off-roaders? Are these akin to the one percenters in the motorcycle club world?
Iām off-road a lot myself, but I always have a destination such as a remote camping, fishing or hunting spotā¦..never just playing āon the rocksā. Rock crawling is just not my thing unless said rocks are...
The axle ratios on your Bronco are setup for use with your stock size tiresā¦ā¦.best fuel economy and power. If you go with 35s itāll feel lower on power and fuel economy will not be good.
A good 285/70/17 in a load range C will be much better and will still look good.
Iād go with 33s (285/70) as the largest. Theyāll look good, especially on wheels with a +30 offset. Youāll be much happier in the long run with these over 35s.
For a year(?) Ford has been using an initial fill of 7.5qts of oil in the 2.7 V6 with no associated problems that Iāve heard of.
This roughly equates to a 7qt service fill.
Ford says that now the service fill is 6qts although itās ok to use 7qts
As for as I know the initial fill is still 7.5...
Love these 33s!
I remember when 33/12.50/15s were "huge" tires. We ran them on everything from Jeeps to 1/2ton trucks! They were extremely capable to tackle anything off-road. Now it's 37s!