Making my First Edition Bronco mine

[swaing]

First Edition picked up from dealer in July of ‘22.
2,300 miles at purchase.

Dealer mods:
Blue lettering, brake calipers and tow points, blacked out windshield frame, color matched trail sights and fender flares, 35”x12.5r20 Ridge Grapplers on Fuel Vector wheels.

Making it mine:
Short antenna:

N-fab Steps:

RC 2.5” lift for Sasquatch:

RC Hidden 12k# winch:

RC Ditch Lights/Fog Lights/50” Light Bar:

Blue Rock Lights then switched out to White after run in with the law:

The day I decided to relocate my hidden winch and invest in mud tires:

Latest: 37x12.5r17 Trail Grapplers on Titan 7 T-AK1 wheels and new RC winch mount and 12k winch:

To fit 37s with no rub I removed the plastic In the front fender well and pulled back with zip ties and trimmed crash bar mounts:

Next (maybe!): power running boards and coilovers? We’ll see. Love the ride and look as is. Thanks for looking

A couple interior things…:

Sweet Ride!!

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[internationlriders]

The RC winch mount combined with the high bar looks perfect! I may just have to copycat you.

While I'm not a neon or colored lighting fan myself, yours is a sweet looking rig all in, nicely done!

 

[BLINDSIDE]

Update: Installed the Bestop Skyrider last week

 

[KRAKEN]

Nice looking Bronco!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CARdiac]

Update: Installed the Bestop Skyrider last week

Now that you have had the top on for a couple of weeks, what are your thoughts?

 

[BLINDSIDE]

Now that you have had the top on for a couple of weeks, what are your thoughts?

Love the convenience and utilize it often (3 separate trips just today). I did have some air noise and water leaks when I first installed it but have since added weather stripping to the entire front and rear plastic panels as well as some silicone on the rear seams and eliminated those issues. A little sketchy on tight trails with low overhanging branches but no tears yet from that. I’d definitely do again.

 

[CARdiac]

Love the convenience and utilize it often (3 separate trips just today). I did have some air noise and water leaks when I first installed it but have since added weather stripping to the entire front and rear plastic panels as well as some silicone on the rear seams and eliminated those issues. A little sketchy on tight trails with low overhanging branches but no tears yet from that. I’d definitely do again.

Would you mind sharing pix of what you had to do to make it work?

 

[BLINDSIDE]

Would you mind sharing pix of what you had to do to make it work?

This is the underside of the front panel with the top flipped back (weather stripping ran along that last piece of hard plastic). Pretty much did the same thing to the back panel underside. There are also two small slits on the underside of back panel that I filled with silicone but can’t get pics of that since it’s installed.

hope that helps

 

[BLINDSIDE]

Update: Installed 20” light bar with DRL into the winch mount. Had to de-tach the mount from the vehicle and flip some bolts around for the light bar to fit properly.

Cut off the wiring harness and ran the flood and DRL wires to aux switches.

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