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Clearly, the industry is now betting small EV's in the various genre's (sedan, SUV, pickup, etc.) are worth the capital investment. Makes no sense to me, because your still betting against the American electorate (who don't want our $tax$ subsidizing the EV industry), the American consumer (who...

Good question. Unfortunately there is not easy to be had systematic brand/formulation comparisons and testing out there. In other words, an owner can't go to Consumer Reports or Project Farm or a web forum and see straightforward "Brand X vs. Brand Y" objective results. Why? Too many...

Good question. The hinge of your question is in the meaning of the word "failure" I think. For many buyers (most probably) of a new vehicle, a "failure" of the oil itself would be one that makes it a factor in having to "rebuild", or at least a major repair that involves replacing parts such...

Unfortunately my tested and preferred brand/formulation/grade: Pennzoil Ultra Platinum (as well as regular Platinum) in 0W-40 is not what it once was: And though Pennzoil is focused on, he mentions other brand formulations have suffered as well. I will be testing my next oil change as my...

I did vehicle inspections for my local club's annual off road event last year: https://chilechallenge.org/ After not having a fire extinguisher, the battery not being secured was the most common requirement folks did not meet. The folks with mostly stock rigs was one thing, but the heavily...

Nobody is buying what your selling @Techun , but no doubt you will keep trying...true believers and their evangelism and all that... You did get me thinking about what I pay for gas yearly for my bronco. 20k miles a year for me, at $4 a gallon is $4500 (assuming $4 average per gallon - I have...

As of yet, I have not heard of an over-the-air update from ford resetting a tune of any type (FP or any other). It has been so long since I flashed my tune I don't recall of a setting/screen in the ProCal that indicates tune Ver. # or equivalent, but I think it likely if you plug in your...

Maybe I'm an outlier, but I don't think blind people should drive no matter if it's raining, or sunshine, or anything...🤷‍♂️

Since you have the Fox shocks, which I thought were linear but one person mentions they could be progressively valved (never heard of a Fox shock digressively valved from the factory), I would tend to think your running too much psi in your tires. But since your not, unless something is broken...

Yea, that works up to a moderate-reaching-towards-hard obstacle, but is not a thing on genuinely difficult ones. I'm still worried :) I thought mine would hold but those brass sleeves in the plastic were just to loose/separated from the plastic itself and the bumper would work itself loose...

Great report! Ford should be honest about those stock plastic rear bumpers being good for only at most a 4….

look up “Rev hang” here or elsewhere. While all modern turbo engines suffer this emissions strategy, these Ford ecoboosts seemed to have it worse than most. That combined with this hydraulic clutch system in the bronco (little feel, wandering engagement point, difficult to ‘feather’) and the...

I should add that the hydraulic clutch system in the bronco is difficult (though light). It provides no feedback, and the engagement point seems to change a little bit between each shift. folks have changed out the return spring, for a lighter one which is counterintuitive at least to me, but...

Yes, driveline lash when you miss a shift and/or harshly load/unload the driveline via the clutch (or even the throttle) is a thing. I don’t believe the Bronco to be any different than any other large manual vehicle I’ve had in the past however. There is definitely an audible and felt vibration...

Interesting. I can report that with the AC off, on a moderate-to-hot day (particularly with wind behind you) on a slow trail here, the water & cylinder head temp's climb pretty much in step (though not quite as much) as the "inferred" reading of the oil temp (as reported by the ProCal). That...

Interesting, I'm going to have to check this route out. As far as 2.3 vs 2.7, in stock (non tuned form), the choice of transmission makes the decision for you. If you want a manual, then the "sacrifice" of a bit less torque/HP of the 2.3 is no big deal. If you want an auto (as most would)...

Two thoughts: As others have noted the oil temp is inferred on 2.3 (not sure about 2.7). I use the Ford Performance doo-hooky thingy that is used to upload the FP tune to show me actual intake air temp, coolant temp, and cylinder head temp. The manual has no tranmission temp sensor I do not...

I can't tell from the pics - is that a real rock rail with a running board "step" bolted on to it (so that you could remove it on the trail) or is it a normal running board that just looks like it is a functional rail? Your bronco looks sharp - I aesthetically like black and a "black out"...

How? By stiffening/strengthening the tierod, it can no longer serve as a "fuse" (i.e. the part that breaks) for the steering rack. Does the bronze 'support bushing' or some other property of this tie rod somehow "absorb" shock/stress routed to the steering rack?

A few things are being conflated here. As the OP pointed out, the Bronco has open differentials (unless they are electro-mecahnically locked with the "hero" button), which mechanically distributes torque across both wheels on the axle evenly, even when the wheel speed differentiates (thus the...