Good video and thanks for focusing on your product usage! Not many companies actually take their stuff out and show it being tested except in edited, desert scenes throwing dirt up but not actually being used. Props to yall! Brought a friend of mine through with your sliders on his Bronco (took us two days lol). Very impressed with the sliders. Got a little youtube video on it on my channel.
I see KO2s on your truck in this episode but in the snow video the 37s were something else. Are you not happy with the snow performance of the KO2s? Thanks for the great videography.
All-terrain or AT tires of the KO2S work very well on rocks, sand, and packed snow, get decent fuel mileage, and are quiet on the road. For deep snow and mud, the more aggressive "mud terrain" or MT tire has better performance, with the trade-off of fuel milage and road noise over the AT tire. The MT tires we are running are 37x12.5x17s Falken Wildpeak MTs.
@@Metaltech4x4 thank you very much. By the way congrats again, I have never seen anybody welding a shock absorber mount off the grit, I was amused. You are master.
I really like your video! I see you got some mods such as the bumper, rock rails, and skid plates. What did you upgrade your tierods to? Also, did you upgrade your steering rack from 74weld?
Metal-tech 4x4 bumpers, sliders and skids. 100% stock tie rods, I just carried a spare but never needed it. Drove the Bonroco hard, but it was also not my first-time rock crawling. That does help. I'm not a big fan of removing a simple fail point, like the stock tierods. Whenever we "beef up" one thing, we just move the fail point to a new location. Stock tie rods are low-cost, easy to carry, and easily swapped out on the trail. Bend a sock tie rod = save the rack. It's a fuse with a lesson about what caused it to bend. (Driver feedback on what they were doing. Usually, it is something with some speed or dropping off a ledge with the steering kicked over hard.) The racks only started having issues when people put the splints, braces, and overbuilt tie rods on. This, in turn, started a whole new industry, leading to "we need stronger racks." But honestly, the stock tie rod with a few spares = is simple and works. If we were to "beef" up the steering system, I would go 100% OEM Ford with the Hoss 3.0 rack/rods. Seen quotes for $3k installed and programmed by dealers w/warranty and maintaining your OEM warranty.
@@Metaltech4x4 Wow, thank you for the clarity on that, it makes a lot of sense! If you were to upgrade to the Hoss 3.0 rack and rods, get the Ford performance tierods, do you think 37s would be ideal then?
@@husker_nation Absolutly. We run 37's now on he stock OG smaller tie rods. That is what we ran the Rubicon with. If one was bending OE tie rod ends a lot or just wanted the best setup, then yes, the stock Ford Hoss 3.0 is the way to go. The demand for these kits has been so high Ford has upped the availability of the parts. As of right now, the Hoss 3.0 rack and tierods are only about $1k; that other $2k is their labor to put it in and flash the computer to teach it the bigger stepper motor for the power assist.
It’s very fun to be able to drive it. It’s kinda like rock climbing, sure it would be easier to just walk up the easy sloped side of the mountain, but where is the fun in that?
Awesome to see the testing and proof of the sauce! You guys build awesome products. Keep going!!
Thanks! We make what we do because we do run real trails and want the parts for our own trucks!
Good video and thanks for focusing on your product usage! Not many companies actually take their stuff out and show it being tested except in edited, desert scenes throwing dirt up but not actually being used. Props to yall! Brought a friend of mine through with your sliders on his Bronco (took us two days lol). Very impressed with the sliders. Got a little youtube video on it on my channel.
Thank you for the kind words and for one who also gets out on the trail!
Super rad!!!! I plan on running it with the 2-Door Bronco next year, y’all make it look like a BLAST!
There is a Colorado Bronco Group coming down next year that asked me to get them through, you should come then!
@@popo_patty any idea when?
Otherwise, if we can’t make that trip, would you be down to roll with when do head that way?
Hendog says I think I needs one of them Broncos!!!😮 TLCA#1343
They are a lot of fun and do work off-road! Mark TLCA #1137
What winch mount bracket are you running? Great looking rig!
That is the Metal-tech 4x4 Stronghold winch mount. We make them right here, in-house in the USA. metaltech4x4.com/bronco-6g-stronghold-winch-mount/
I see KO2s on your truck in this episode but in the snow video the 37s were something else. Are you not happy with the snow performance of the KO2s? Thanks for the great videography.
All-terrain or AT tires of the KO2S work very well on rocks, sand, and packed snow, get decent fuel mileage, and are quiet on the road. For deep snow and mud, the more aggressive "mud terrain" or MT tire has better performance, with the trade-off of fuel milage and road noise over the AT tire. The MT tires we are running are 37x12.5x17s Falken Wildpeak MTs.
@@Metaltech4x4 thank you very much. By the way congrats again, I have never seen anybody welding a shock absorber mount off the grit, I was amused. You are master.
I really like your video! I see you got some mods such as the bumper, rock rails, and skid plates. What did you upgrade your tierods to? Also, did you upgrade your steering rack from 74weld?
Metal-tech 4x4 bumpers, sliders and skids. 100% stock tie rods, I just carried a spare but never needed it. Drove the Bonroco hard, but it was also not my first-time rock crawling. That does help. I'm not a big fan of removing a simple fail point, like the stock tierods. Whenever we "beef up" one thing, we just move the fail point to a new location. Stock tie rods are low-cost, easy to carry, and easily swapped out on the trail. Bend a sock tie rod = save the rack. It's a fuse with a lesson about what caused it to bend. (Driver feedback on what they were doing. Usually, it is something with some speed or dropping off a ledge with the steering kicked over hard.) The racks only started having issues when people put the splints, braces, and overbuilt tie rods on. This, in turn, started a whole new industry, leading to "we need stronger racks." But honestly, the stock tie rod with a few spares = is simple and works. If we were to "beef" up the steering system, I would go 100% OEM Ford with the Hoss 3.0 rack/rods. Seen quotes for $3k installed and programmed by dealers w/warranty and maintaining your OEM warranty.
@@Metaltech4x4 Wow, thank you for the clarity on that, it makes a lot of sense! If you were to upgrade to the Hoss 3.0 rack and rods, get the Ford performance tierods, do you think 37s would be ideal then?
@@husker_nation Absolutly. We run 37's now on he stock OG smaller tie rods. That is what we ran the Rubicon with. If one was bending OE tie rod ends a lot or just wanted the best setup, then yes, the stock Ford Hoss 3.0 is the way to go. The demand for these kits has been so high Ford has upped the availability of the parts. As of right now, the Hoss 3.0 rack and tierods are only about $1k; that other $2k is their labor to put it in and flash the computer to teach it the bigger stepper motor for the power assist.
To save you the time: No 2-door Broncos are featured.
12 miles in three days? Guess people just drive it to test their rigs because hiking would be way faster.
Absolutely and it’s fantastic to drive.
It’s very fun to be able to drive it. It’s kinda like rock climbing, sure it would be easier to just walk up the easy sloped side of the mountain, but where is the fun in that?