Great job, nice information video! I wonder if Ford Motor Company back in Detroit ever watch these videos and what they think knowing their Bronco 2's are still being driven and desired?
Thanks, I don’t know if my videos have been taken that seriously by ford but seems like the new bronco sport is kinda like todays equivalent to the bronco 2. A little less traditional of an suv but still has more off-road ability than most of the crossovers. So I think yeah they noticed the love for the smaller rugged suv.
Well it would be a little risky. One of the times we went a ranger came by and checked to make sure we had our stickers and everything. But sometimes we have gone and not seen anybody.
@@tackettgarage4982 OK thanks I went to go get the pink slip and registered the bike yesterday but they gave me a red sticker riding time October to April and it’s due now so I can’t go to Wildomar OHv this Saturday or should I still go
@@tackettgarage4982 can a race bike, be ridden on the trails slow or only on race tracks . Will riding a race track at low RPMs affected the bike ima ride my race bike on a hiking trail slowly
Have you installed any bed stiffeners with this? I am also running into the problem of wanting stiffeners and have the bed extender. I was reading on Tacoma world some people have done it but with the amp extender. I don’t know if that’s similar to the oem.
I think the fastest I saw was in the 80s, didn’t get there quick but it would get up there and maintain it ok. It was definitely one of my slower vehicles I had.lol
Thanks for the video, I'm waiting on mine to get here. In your experience have you only strapped your bikes to the brushed aluminum D-loops at the front of the bed? I am a bit uncertain how strong those are to hold our 300lb bikes, so I'm now also considering mounting two more heavy duty D loop rivets through the bottom of the truck bed.
I usually had the front tied down like you said and I would strap the rear ends down on n either side to the back loops and together I n the middle. Was always good for us. Probably not a bad idea to put beefier hooks in the back
Good video! Three questions … 1. Is that the short box (5 foot)? 2. Is it possible to know what those bikes are, so I can look up the length of them compared to mine? 3. If you took out the camping stuff, do you think you could fit a 3rd bike in there? Thanks.
Thanks! It’s a long bed Tacoma 6 ft, the big bike is a kx450 and the small bike is a ttr 125. Maybe on the third bike if a couple are small bikes but I don’t think 3 full size would.
Looked all over the internet for this plastic lip front bumper deal you got on there it looks mean! Do you remeber what that was called or where you purchased it?
Oh yeah the plastic one, I thought you meant the prerunner one I put on later. I think the plastic was literally just abs plastic cut to size and attached with tec screws.
So rad to see another guy in ca puttin hard work into a good ol old 2.9! I got an 87' b2 and I'm getting ready to upgrade my cooling system this video is the shit dude! I dont have the budget to drop a ton of $ into a real nice radiator but I plan on grabbing a fresh one and replacing the water pump. Whats your Instagram I'm too curious on recent updates on your rig
Yeah the old girl treated me pretty right. The rad I did was actually pretty affordable if they are still selling them. My Instagram is TackettGarage. But sorry to disappoint but I no longer have the bronco. I put a link to the bumper on the video on here where I did all the front end updates, it was actually on Amazon if you believe it.lol. The next update I was going to do before life took a different turn was a James duff suspension lift, was going to do the dual front shocks because I wanted to eventually try to jump it out in the desert.
You definitely don’t have to take of the skid plate or anything. It’s kinda far back there in on the crossmember. I found it was way easier to see after I drive the car up on a pair of 2x4s to get some clearance.
Thank you for the video. I just purchased a 2023 SR5 v6 4x4 short bed, and looking to add Bilstein B8 5100 front and rear. Going 2 inches front and 1 inch block in the back. Do you think I’ll have an issue with 265/75/R16 using the stock rims the rims are kind of dark grey almost the same color as my metallic grey truck.
Your welcome. Sounds like it’s going to look pretty sweet. Now I haven’t played around with the suspension set ups too much but from what I have with my set up I’m almost positive you will be good to go in the back and I’m thinking you will be good in the front. If I’m thinking about the math right I think your set up is a bit smaller tire than mine and I only have a little rub when I’m turned pretty far and the suspension gets bounced.
As an Camaro SS owner this was a very good install video. Sorry about your car man. These are great cars but LTG is a huge step backwards from the LNFs & LHQs of the previous generation of Ecotecs. You can do all of the correct maintenance according to GM and they'll still blow up. They were made to save money and nothing is stout in them. They are straight garbage.
Thanks, I appreciate it. Yeah the car was great aside from the engine. I looked at a couple ss Camaros after this video to replace it but with the kind of mileage we put on the daily I couldn’t bring myself to pull the trigger. I definitely miss the camaro, current daily works but nowhere near as good….but the engine does still run.haha
Wow! I’ve got the 3.6 V6 with a manual. 2017. It had a bad coil on cylinder 5. Replace that and it was better, but not great. Took it to a different dealer and it ended up being $700 to repair the wiring harness that was rubbing against the engine for some reason. That solved my mechanical problems. I’m so sorry about yours. I love mine, and it’s got 85k on it now.
Oh yeah wiring harness damage is hard to find. I do miss mine, keep enjoying yours, from what I read my problem was a 2.0 problem so you shouldn’t have to worry about that.
Hey, it was a good toy for us. Personally the only time it was ever remotely close to going over was one of the times I was taking a trail a bit over my skill level. So I would say it was user error on my part and still came out unscathed. On road was never close to felling like it was going over and there were definitely a few time when I probably went in to a turn a little hotter than I should being more used to muscle cars, and it was always good. I also had some wide tires so that may have helped
Loved your video. It just happens that I have all of the same components I am installing on my 96 Cobra Convertible and was looking for all of the details that you included that I didn’t find on other videos/sources. Such as 1) Should I remove strut tower or not. Have heard from a friend who took his in for new plugs/wires that his mechanic had issues when trying to reattach strut tower due to the body moving. 2) What the gap should be with the new coils I thought I had read .060 and didn’t want to screw that up 3) reminder to check compression and clean the throttle body. How did these upgrades work for you?
Thanks I appreciate it! I thought they worked great, I didn’t feel a big power increase or anything but it was nice and smooth through the rpms and no issues at all. A little while after the video I ended up selling my cobra(which I regret now, hindsight 20 20) but while I had it it was flawless and the guy that bought it from me drove it most of the way across California back home with no issues too. I would say your going to be happy for sure. And the only advice I have for you is hold on to her, she’s a keeper.
Yeah I guess I should have seen it coming trying to daily a turbo car. Based on what all I read about the engine I actually let the car go to move on to other projects. Thanks.
Basically you go out the 10 like you're going to Palm Springs. best thing to do is to use Pioneertown for the gps, and continue past it up the dirt road and you follow the signs with bears on them and it takes you to Big bear. Check it out, its a good one, its starting to get warm by where it starts but will be nice once you get up the mountain.
