I believe there were intentions of having a 7 quart pan, as per the engineer interview in which that was said, but I think it never came to fruition. What would be awesome is if a Ford parts person could get a 2.7 Bronco pan, and a 2.7 F150 pan, and pour 6 quarts of liquid into both and tell us the result. If the Bronco pan is about an inch or so lower than the F150 pan from the top of the liquid to the top edge of the pan, then I'd warm up to the 7 quart theory. I imagine it doesn't, and I also suspect that Ford would rather risk the shame of admitting they screwed up a stick that they would secretly reducing than having owners run their engines a quart low...especially engines that will experience severe off road angles.Gotta be honest, my eyes crossed half way through that post but, in my opinion, the engineers designed the Bronco 2.7 for 7 quarts. Ford got the dipstick wrong. The right thing for Ford to do is send owners the correct dipstick free of charge. That would cost them money. The easy thing for Fird to do is change the manual to 6. Dipstick now measures correctly and everything goes away.
As of now, the materials (the owners manual/service manual/parts catalog for the sole 6 quart stick) still suck...check it out below (these are upnrigit now in the Ford website)
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