This last few trips we’ve done where organizing on this forum under Sacramento Broncos ,any one is welcome. I have wheeled the Dear Valley trail with a few stock Badlands, but the rubicon is going to be extremely challenging with 33. The broncos on 35’s drag a ton.
Not sure if any one answered your question. The 6G scraped a lot. There is no way to avoid it. The underside takes a beating but as long as you have good skids you are fine. That’s the biggest difference from driving a Jeep or any other straight axle rig on rubicon compared to the 6th gens.
I did the same thing after the trip. After seeing Joe do it. It only works if you can adjust your height on the coil overs. I went up 1.75” and lowered my rear suspension to stay level. Cut off the bottom of the mount (pic of piece)hopefully it won’t get hung up as often.
I wanted this exact set up this spring. Was quoted 21k for the portal boxes and 18k for the rest of the front assembly. This doesn’t include the labor, rear end, tires, or body work.
Just be aware if you off road a lot, you may find it boring. I attend with wife and adult daughter and both feel asleep because the trails are very mild compared to our normal trips. Very organized and informative if you are new to the sport.
Why would you think that? Have you ever seen how amazing the broncos do with portal axles off road. If it wasn’t so expensive I would have them today.
I have the grey 4 door Badlands. 37x13.5 Coopers. 2” suspension lift via 4wp coil overs and 3” body lift. LOD transmission skid plate and the rest stock ford skids with Broncbuster steering upgrades. Did fine, a lot easier with the mods then running it when I was a stock.
This picture was from my fourth and last trip of the year, it’s getting snowed in this week. I am fortunate enough to only live 1.5hours away. I haven’t experienced and damage besides the skid plates getting beaten up underneath and a small ding on my back bumper. Good skid pates are a must and...
RTR’s can take a lot of abuse. Mine have held up to a season of rock crawling and still balance out. Check out the picture below. Have had great results with Trail Ready Bead-locks.
Looks great. When adding your gas tank skid over the factory gas tank skid, how much ground clearance is lost? After one season of wheeling mainly on rocks on factory skid plates I am looking to upgrade. I have the 4 door, interested in your steel version.