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Thats all fair. I have bounced/dragged my cast m210 housing multiple times without issue. Many others have too, the stock skid is open under the diff afterall. The unused bolt hole on the bottom of my housing is oval now instead of round lol, but there are no leaks! It has been proven to be...

Ground clearance is a valid concern against diff drops, and certainly its easier and cheaper to fix a CV vs an axle, but I don't think axle replacements approach even 1/10th the number that CV replacements do. Unless the Taco world is using super weak housings (wouldnt be that surprised). The...

Thanks for the shout out Dusty! I hope to do my axles (out of desire and not necessity hopefully) someday! For those who may not know, regarding the diff drop, I did add a larger oversized washer like the OEM, as well as increase the diameter of the passenger side spacer to the kit, to better...

I passed 40k coming home from my last road trip. I dont use it as the main daily driver, but drive it often enough. The real killer is my road trips. I try to go someplace cool at least once a year, sometimes twice. That adds up! I have one of the earlier Broncos on here so that "helps" a bit...

I hope you are right; I am not at all a SW or CAN expert. My exposure to it is relatively recent, 2023MY+ vehicles. My fear is that the newer vehicles (even disregarding CMA, thought that will be an issue on other newer vehicles, not on Bronco thankfully) are so much more integrated than...

I wasnt sure if he had done another, the hoss 3.0 rack tentatively qualifies in this regard. and I dont mean to take away from that achievement, It was impressive to get it working so early in a different model Bronco without any Ford support, but it is afterall basically identical mechatronics...

you can match the modules up easy enough, and the pinouts, but what won't you need the right cals (with right signal names) to run? Not just "right" but potentially totally custom. To jog my memory, what cross platform modules did you reflash to work? Cals are easy for the right people with...

The "electrical wizardry" may be figured out pretty easily by the right folks: Either calibrators at Ford with the proprietary keys and kit, or some silly valley folks who all of a sudden are more interested in motor swaps than working at the latest tech start up. I don't disagree that the...

POV: Its the year 2030, every rig on the trail looks like this, everyone has an "overlanding" channel, you hear the hum of drones overhead as you duck under another passing camera boom while you scroll through Instagram checking your likes. In all seriousness, this is a sweet build. Whenever I...

i'll have to dig out my veh-dyn book when I get some time. I'd like to get a set up like this someday. My concern is since I am limited with where I put that singular upper joint I will have to do some serious moving of the lower control arm mounts on the axle, or even frame side to get the...

Thats kinda what I was getting at regarding the lateral stiffness. Stability bars are easy enough, but getting all the triangulation out of one pair could be tough to satisfy all the desired attributes. Partly why i'd like to see a unified upper control arm, but that has its own limitations for...

I understand you have the appropriate brackets to run the panhard nice and level even with the lift and travel, but did you consider doing a triangulated linkage? I would be curious to hear your thoughts on the pros/cons. Obvious con is needing to weld on the axle, but arent other aspects of...

@Dusty already nailed it but i'll add some more thoughts. Slight loss of potential ground clearance a fair thing to consider when weighing your options. In addition to what Dusty mentioned regarding clearance (only limited under the diff) You can consider the other use cases of the "bigger"...

Exactly, not too hard. I've considered doing this but never got around to it. But in that vein of "mods" i'm sure theres a few other things I havent thought of. I'd also pay a reasonable amount just to get the quality supplies needed for work.

That sounds awesome, do you have pictures you can share? I'm always looking for neat custom fabrication.

I'd like to see some folks dabble in the vehicle electrical systems just a bit. For example, I would love to be able to force the zone lighting on like a ditch light when off-road. They are excellent lights made almost useless since it can only be used when parked. I would also like to see a...

Here's a picture loaded up with just the cooler and stroller for a short test downtown:

As the title implies, I modified my already custom bike rack to double as a storage rack depending on kind of trip we have in mind. If you haven't seen it already, I detailed the project of converting my rocky mounts back stage II swing out bike carrier to work in conjunction with my...

Looks beefy! $1500ish for the raw bumper is about where the market is at, I know folks are getting up to 4500 by selecting all the options, but they are after all options! I already got a bumper set up, but this would have been a solid contender if available when I was looking. If I could...

Nice trip! Only been there once, but this trail just made my list! Glad to see you wheeling hard with both the 2.0 and 3.0 racks. They got a lot of hate (sure it should have launched with the 3.0) but they hold up when not jacked way up. I ran mine for 2 years on some rough stuff, including over...