You can see the broken tie rod in the pictures and videoRan the trail with those guys, they said it in the video, the axel housing split. Nothing to do with the tie rods.
Matt was there in a hurry, they were headed up the trail before we even got back to the trailhead!
Suppose I should just let DV8 tell the story, it's theirs to tell anyway.
74 Weld makes a rack that blows away the HOSS 3.0 rack. $5k though for the entire thing or $3k if you send them the 3.0.
Well, they're certainly capable of handling 1100ft/lbs of input torque, and while that sounds pretty beefy, you also have to consider that the 450ft/lb coming from the 8.1L is geared down to 2.48 in 1st with a 4L85, so that means it's seeing about 1,115ft/lbs input torque, without any doubler. Ordinarily, being right on the edge of rated input torque is not a deal breaker because you're rarely capable of putting that much torque to the ground with an equal and opposite amount of traction available. Throw some big ass tires on a heavy rig with smooth sandstone, let it start hopping and spinning the tires, and yeah, you'll get that much traction easy. The new input shaft they have is meant to handle way more than that, made from 8620 steel with a much beefier profile where they usually shear. It's the kind of stuff they're putting in Ultra4 buggies and rock bouncers, but it's only supposed to be a temporary solution until the prototype case gets fixed.
They're not making it yet, and really, it's just the housing and bushings that they changed...the 3.0 internals are still being used in them. I have a 3.0 on standby for when they start taking orders, but it's not the silver bullet for all Bronco steering woes. It's over-engineered for strength, and I believe a lower cost solution needs to made in order to bridge the gap between the 2.0/3.0 and 74Weld's rack. An actual drop-in replacement that doesn't cost the customer $5K...I mean, that's getting into hydro-assist trophy truck rack territory. They don't need to cost that much.
Hope they got a tshirt
I think it would be neat to poll all 4 offroadeo locations and see how often they have had this happen. Lots of amateur drives going off road with several versions of the Bronco. I think they have done enough trails they would have a great sample size.
Yeah if only.... But I'm sure they're under direct orders to keep that stuff hush hush.
And all fairness that transfer case was an experiment and not production.
Probably close to none. They are using stock tire size. At least at Nevada you were never put in a place you had to spin the tires to get traction and people were cognizant that they were driving someone else's vehicle.
