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maybe. It might be that there is a different valve body or special hard line that they only use in the Bronco, it might be that they are all delayed until a Bronco specific part or adapter is available from a supplier who cannot get raw materials or whatever. No way to know for sure unless Ford tells us. Seriously, it could be that they are missing an emissions sticker, could be something stupid and not a lack of actual transmissions.Ford surely has a certain number of 2.7's to start with. But, I'm guessing they are seeing a potential shortage when Bronco orders start rolling in. If you're in early enough you could be one of the lucky ones to get a 2.7L before they run low. Good luck.
All true. A couple of other things.The problem is that with "Just-in-Time" manufacturing, they forecast what they think they will need on parts that have a multiple month lead time. If the forecast is wrong, which seems like it now, there are multiple months to recover back to what is actually needed. The other 2.7s in the pipeline are alreay allocated to other vehicles. They could steal some from F-150, but then that would hurt the numbers on their #1 sales vehicle. Not gonna happen.
I deal with this in Aerospace all the time. Some parts are 30+ weeks "billet-to-box". If customer "A" now says they want to update a contract to take delivery early, it usually can't happen. Same thing happens when a vendor has issues and falls short of a quantity on delivery. Usually the process starts over or we have to dip into the next run of parts that re partially done. Delays that are out of our hands.