Recent content by Sparkie

Hey @Huntnfish , @ThunderFlash has a good point for you to consider. Your used or new Bronco will never "ride" as nice on the street as your Chevy Traverse. But from personal experience, the Bronco DOES ride better than the Jeep Wrangler and I think it's more capable than a Wrangler on the trails.

Yikes! Thanks, if the rattle starts up again in the fall, I will take it into the dealership.

Up here in Massachusetts, there are not many 2 door Broncos -- mostly 4 doors. I do see more 2 door Broncos when I do my road trips through southern states (below Virginia). So you might want to look around in those markets. It seems like New England dealerships prefer using their limited Ford...

Excellent. Keep your eyes on this thread.

Excellent. I will be travelling for a few weeks, but when I get back to Massachusetts, I'll let you know.

I've had the same model for a year now. I've hidden all the wires and place the rear camera behind the crossbar of the roll cage so it works for my hardtop and canvas top without issue. While it does record while on the trails, the video is not that impressive -- but that's okay with me. This...

:crackup: I like your style. For me, I prefer to end my trouble making before dark. So, I guess I'm a bit more literal on the definition of "day trip" -- and it's now the season where the days are getting shorter. I live in north and west of Boston. So Armor Ditch is about a 2 hour drive. But...

Hello @skyhunter While it is not a Massachusetts destination, last November @SeptuagenarianSasquatch , @bkirchhoff and I went to Armor Ditch (https://www.armorditch.com) in Ossippe NH -- it's just west of Lake Winnipesaukee. Depending on where you live in MA, it is about a "tankful away". We...

Welcome to the forum in your new capacity as a Bronco owner! And that's a fabulous name for your Bronco.

5 weeks!? That's about how long it takes Ford to build a new Bronco! What's going on?

Yup. When I ordered my Bronco, my salesman said I would have to meet with the sales manager before we could place the order. That manage argued with me for 10 minutes that "nobody drive stick anymore" - to which I replied look at the car I'm driving right now. He was also arguing with me that...

My first manual gearbox was a 1969 Jeep and I had the very same clutch cable problem. It got to the point I would carry the spare cable and tools with me and do the roadside repair myself. The cables were better on my next cars/trucks. Then I got a sports car that used a hydraulic system...

I am with you -- I'm never giving up my manual. I have owned and driven manual gearboxes for 45 years with long back and forth work commutes around Boston's notorious bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic. While waiting for traffic to move, I used neutral (a lot!) so I rarely had to "stand" on...

I did have similar 2.3 vs 2.7 concerns, but I didn't notice much difference between them in my Bronco test drives. Maybe it was because I drove my manual gearbox "speed vehicle" (pictured below" to those test drives.

I am not a "4 door hater" and even owned a few myself, but they all had a manual gearbox. I can say that every manual gearbox I have owned never had to "learn how to shift". Maybe that's what made me -- as my wife describes me, a "manual car snob".