Mrs. 01Tundra's Bronco Badlands Build

mortonm

Expedition Leader
Wow you are wasting no time!

glad to see another Bronco build on here, hopefully one day I get mine back, been at ford for 7 weeks and counting now for the transmission
 

01tundra

Explorer
Got the RCI sliders installed last night.

Really happy we went with the 20 degree.

They're very well build and install was straight forward.

Can't say enough good things about their customer service. Tim, Evan and crew are top notch.

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01tundra

Explorer
Decided to add a molle panel to the tailgate to pick up some additional storage space, but couldn't find one at a reasonable price.

I didn't really want a table, but since it was decently priced and had a molle panel I figured why not.

The table is solid and has no rattles.


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mortonm

Expedition Leader
Finally found somebody to trade for some non-SAS fender flares.

Still waiting on the new non-SAS rear bumper caps to arrive, but I already like the look way better without those wide flares.

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Are you planning on changing to a narrower tire size eventually? 35x10, 35x11.5 or 285 75 R17 etc..
 

01tundra

Explorer
Are you planning on changing to a narrower tire size eventually? 35x10, 35x11.5 or 285 75 R17 etc..

Nope, we're keeping them the stock size.

For trail riding, I hate flares sticking out farther than the tires. The sliders have plates that catch rocks slinging off the tires.
 

85_Ranger4x4

Well-known member
Probably an unpopular opinion but if they made the body fit the wheelbase and just done away with the flares altogether it wouldnt have hurt my feelings any.

Our rear flares are tore up from the front tires throwing rocks at them even with full mud flapage.

Then there is the poor raptor trying to rock dually fenders...
 

toddz69

Explorer
Probably an unpopular opinion but if they made the body fit the wheelbase and just done away with the flares altogether it wouldnt have hurt my feelings any.

Our rear flares are tore up from the front tires throwing rocks at them even with full mud flapage.

Then there is the poor raptor trying to rock dually fenders...
Wheelbase? Or track width? The wheels seem to be pretty well-centered in the wheelwells.....

Todd Z.
 

01tundra

Explorer
Probably an unpopular opinion but if they made the body fit the wheelbase and just done away with the flares altogether it wouldnt have hurt my feelings any.

Our rear flares are tore up from the front tires throwing rocks at them even with full mud flapage.

Then there is the poor raptor trying to rock dually fenders...

I don't know, having owned a '74 and leaving red paint from the doors on a rock on almost every trail in the South I'm kinda OK with the narrower body.

But the SAS flares looked like a cartoon drawing. I'm pretty happy with the standard flares.

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01tundra

Explorer
Decided to go back and add "rock dome" bolt head protectors to the two rear transmission skid plate bolts. I found some 10mm bolts in the shop that had low profile 17mm heads, which are perfect for these protectors.

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01tundra

Explorer
Well....after measuring a couple of times, we went to drop the top all the way back yesterday and one of the bows on the soft top was hitting the fire extinguisher and preventing the top from going all the way back ?‍♂️.

So I ordered a new aluminum quick release mount off Amazon and mounted the fire extinguisher to the tailgate table. And yes, I did confirm that the bottom of the extinguisher wasn't hitting the tail gate when the table is folded down.

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01tundra

Explorer
Finally got to use the top hoist I built, our JTops Bimini is arriving today so I figured it's a good time to completely remove the top.

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01tundra

Explorer
Receive our new JTops Bimini yesterday.

While I waited for the velcro to cure I decided to cut the top up and have it modified a little. Since we prefer to run open air in the Spring & Fall I didn't want to have to keep removing the soft top latch brackets every time we wanted to remove the bimini, so we cut it and made a flap around the latch plate that fastens with a velcro tab.

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