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Roof and doors aren’t going to add any more structural integrity to it, the structure is the cage that’s still there with roof and doors off. Jeep has the gladiators 7600lb tow cap with removable roof and doors and off road capable(though its longer wheelbase is a disadvantage off road of course). Not entirely sure what point you’re making with the weight and payload, but Gladiator also has 1550lb payload with that tow cap, broncos payload is just under 1400lbs for the 4 door. Not asking to match the gladiator towing obviously, just pointing out shouldn’t need to add anymore payload cap, it’s got enough already. A 5k tow cap would mean roughly 500lb tongue weight, leaves 870lbs payload, way more than plenty for me. That’d be almost 300lbs less tongue weight than max towing cap on the gladiator with just under 200lbs difference in payload capacity(in otherwords, Bronco actually would have about 100lbs extra payload when at max with a 5k tow cap than gladiator does at max tow).There won’t be an increase of tow capacity. You have to realize that structurally the max tow has to be able to be done with doors off and top off. While being an off-road vehicle. In addition the highest weight of the bronco including payload is 6700 pounds. If you add more tongue weight you are getting pretty close to 7000 pounds. In order to be best in class and be in the same class as the wrangler it has to be below 7000 pounds. Otherwise it can’t compete. FWIW
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