Bronco Breaking Tie Rods in Uwharrie OHV area wheeling with Legend Vaughn Gittin Jr 

Vaughn Gittin Jr you are the first to give the most accurate description of what happens with the tie rods. With all your race experiance you have the best knowledge. Thank you for the best description of what happens. This is why I bought the Sasquatch package plus it gives you the correct gearing for 35 tires. I watched lots of RU-vid videos for a year and 10 months before I got my Bronco. I learned a lot from them. When you go bigger tires more stuff wears out. As time goes on other issues will appear.

Really enjoyed watching this again. Also a good reference of no sway bar disconnect. That big articulation would have been much easier with that bar disconnected. Made for some rad photos though! A lot of great fun and Info in this vid man!

Finally a good explanation of the tie rod stresses. Thanks

that was an awesome demonstration of the tie rod issue with larger tires and the stick explanation. thanks guys

I died LOLING at the austin powers comment @vaughn 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I was really standing in the wrong spot going up that climb in Daniel….. never will do that again! Good times!

Great video. I'm just surprised that nobody has said anything about you guys flying a drone in restricted airspace. Pretty ballsy lol

Sphincter-puckering off roading. Thanks for the exciting content.

Awesome! Glad I watch this after our conversation about tie rods today, probably saved me a butt load of money!! 👌😉😎🤑

Great fun riding shotgun with you folks (virtually, anyway). I would like to hire that entire crew to spot me when my Bronco arrives. I'll need a crew. Got tons to learn, but you guys really make me want to hit the trails and do the work that needs to be done to get comfortable with those types of obstacles. Cool video! Thanks for bringing it to us.

Seeing all these tie rods breaking makes me hesitate to move to bigger tires and/or get a lift. If I ever do, I'll make sure to do all the research and do it correctly. For now my Sasquatch is capable enough to keep me happy on the trails! Thanks for the video.

Dang! even MY Knees were sweating. So rad!

Glad we made it up there to wheel with you guys for a bit there at the end. Those Broncos surprised the heck out of me for sure - that's a pretty gnarly line.

Excellent spotting by Mr. Gittin Jr!

One of your best videos! Great people, great trail, even a wasp attack. 😂

Love the video. I'm a Jeeper and love this type of wheeling. Haven't wheeled with any Broncs yet.

Hope you enjoyed Uwharrie. It’s the closest off-road trails near me and I just took my Bronco there. Haven’t tried Daniel yet, but have done Dickie and Dutch John. I could spend all day out there - good times. Enjoyed the video. Hopefully the tie rod fix didn’t take too long.

That was fun to watch! 👏🏼

You can put it in GOAT mode ! GetOutAndTow !😢

Dude your videos are awesome. Keep em coming.

He is so wrong!! Maybe it’s the 14mm tie rods. Literally smaller than a 2005 Ford Escape which is 15 mm 😂😂🥴

That was an awesome video guys... Enjoyed the whole thing. Me and my Bronco are in North Dakota taking it over to Montana down Through Wyoming to Colorado. Great job enjoy your videos keep it up.

Awesome video wheeling with a Legend!!!!

Ford Performance now has a path to 37" tires from the factory. ProCal tuning, 2" lift, beefier tie rods, and some other things. Best of all, it comes with a warranty. Hope this helps anyone out in the future

19:39 😳😳 rad video to watch Chase!

Weakest point is at the tie rod threads, on the IFS. Give the Broncobuster tie rod brace a try too…..

Awesome video! I really enjoyed it and learned quite a bit from it. Loved seeing experience at work. Having said that, I've ridden a handful of Uwharrie's trails in my CanAm Maverick X3, with the exception of Daniel, because I don't have enough off roading experience! I recently moved here from out west and rode in a lot of open terrain, but want to learn to off road in this type of terrain. Looking forward to challenging myself and my new Bronco Badlands in 2023. Thanks for the video!

Can not wait to see a live axle swap.

Anyone knows if the yellow Badlands had the front lockers on when the tie rod broke? I'm curious if that puts extra pressure to the whole assy and makes it worst.

Looks like that wheel / tire combo adds close to 40#s per corner over stock Sasquatch setup, that probably didn't help the tie rods either, cool video!

I'm still waiting for a proper way to fit and run 37's on a bronco...:( 35's are great, but the bronco greatly lacks in clearance... Something desperately needed for rock crawling. As someone who runs the Rubicon, my stock Sasquatch could make it, sure... but at a high damage cost. I need clearance from a proper lift an 37's... Maybe even 40's

Good ol Uwharrie.

74 WELD TIE RODS AND STEERING RACK END

Broncos are sooooo capable right off the showroom floor. There is very little reason to lift and add bigger tires. Some of us Toyota guys do it, too. We go 35s when we don’t have to and some even 37s. BUT, we don’t break tie rods, and just eyeballing the ones on my brother’s Bronco and my own TOyota FJ Cruiser, they look the same. I’ve seen some snapped CVs, but not many. One thing I have not seen anyone bring up is this: It may not be only the design or the diameter of the tie rods on the Bronco as it may be the QUALITY OF THE STEEL Ford uses.

All these SUV’s look kinda like broncos but have 2 extra doors?

Doesn't have to do with the tire size 😂

Where are the front headlights from, on the light blue one? (The ones with the vertical LED strip)

So what is a correct lift to stop this as you mentioned? The new Ranger Raptors will suffer from this also. Few broken examples here in Aus already. Appart from dropping the steering rack, could the tie rod ball joints be replaced with a extended heim joint to correct for the height change?

These tie rods are breaking with factory spec suspension and tires. This is a VERY common and known problem with these Broncos. Weak ass tie rods the size of pencils and the steering rack is trash as well.

So what lift is on the orange bronco?

I wish I would have watched this video BEFORE I bought my Bronco. They flex as hard as Pee Wee Herman. Seriously, whoever was involved with the IFS decision needs to be put in a room with timeout.

So is the "correct" way to lift for larger tires to also drop the front axel and steering rack to keep the factory angles? If so does such a lift kit exist yet for the Bronco? I went sasquatch so I don't plan on lifting for a few years but I'd like to know what the best options are for the future.

What do you think is the better set up from Ford? The badlands w SAS , or the wildtrak w HOSS 3.0 … I heard a mention of the FOX setup during the segment w broken tie rod ….

Guys on stock 35's have had it happen on less obstacles. The OEM rods are junk. The whole steering system sucks

Yeah the tie rods are a weak product either way angle or not. With 37’s.

FYI, this happens on 35's lifted or stock as well.

I have a 2 dr Badlands Sasquatch ordered (for 16 months now). Almost all videos I see are the 4 dr model. Is there an advantage of the 4 dr vs 2 dr while wheeling? Sorry for the newbie question.

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Love the videos, turned the volume off during the music. Cheapens the value of the video.

Lets do this again in 2023!

Don’t let yahoos modify your Bronco. Do your due diligence with great videos like this one.

So if I have factory ride hight and tires on my Raptor is it a bad idea to change my tie rods to RPG or is it okay?

You know, when you buy a vehicle, these manufacturers have spent years putting them through the paces. It's expected for them to perform to a certain level in a certain environment. When you take an off-road vehicle to a very unusual place to off road. Just because it's made for off road, does not mean it's made for THAT off road. To many factors involved. While I applaud the capability and the ability of the driver, and that is a factor, big time. This is not the place that a standard or even a fully loaded factory bronco should go. This is strictly for heavily modified vehicles. I'm surprised the bronco made it without breaking more tie rods. A lot of geometry involved in the way those ties function under heavy loads and angles. Especially if that load involves the weight of a 40-inch tire versus a 35 with stock tie rods. The tie rods are made for a 35-inch tire. Do not expect it to perform better with a 40-inch tire mounted to it or even a 37.

Do you have any lift or leveling kit on your wildtrack? Also what off set are you running and what tire size? Thank you

Bronc buster makes a kit for the tie rods to prevent this from happening.

He is incorrect i have personally seen a Bronco break a tie rod on 35’s at Rausch creek ..ford put a inferior part period , you should never be that close to a parts tolerance that it breaks that easy.. and the steering rack,, and the transmission … Ford has had alot of failures with the bronco and others lately .. there is simply no explaining that away…

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Great explanation of the tie rod issue, but couldn’t watch the whole thing. The mall crawler music ruined it for me.

The intro is a bunch of douche bags with all the "bro" acting, but the video gets better. Good message from Vaughn on what happens when you don't do a lift correctly or completely.

Check out Bronco Buster channel, he has a 3" body lift, tie rod brace, steering rack supports and steering rack replacement parts. This is old news, no suspension lift, do a 3" body lift and keep the steering geometry correct.

Basically it’s weak af

Made it a few min in and couldn't deal with the 11 year old music 🤢

I call bs. Look all the other vehicles running larger tires on stock tie rods. Ford Bronco tie rods are garbage!

Stop with the rap/hip hop soundtrack, bruh. Everyone thinks only Bro’s drive these things as it is. Don’t need this crap adding to the negative stereotype.