'84 Bronco II
El Chingón
There haven't been many posts here about the new Broncos, so I figured I would document my fathers Bronco he bought new earlier this year.
My father was looking at JLs and Broncos to replace his 2011 Mustang as his daily driver, but ended up getting a Bronco since he is a Ford die-hard at heart. He wanted to special order one, but Ford did not open the order banks to folks who did not previously have a reservation/order on file for the 2023 model year, so he was forced to find something on the lot. He ended up with a 2.3L 7 speed manual Badlands in Area 51 and the only option being the "Modular" steel bumper. He had to fly out to Los Angeles and drive it back, but it was a nice excuse for a road trip for him. For those of you who aren't familiar, the Badlands gets you the M210 front diff, lockers front and rear, 4.70 axle gears, a disconnecting sway bar, and Bilstein ESCV shocks with full travel compared to the Sasquatch models.
The factory skid plates are pretty decent
After getting it home, he had to test out the four wheel drive.
The first "mod" was removing the crash bars.
My father is one of those creative types and gets free shit from Amazon for writing amusing product reviews, so he got a freebie hitch to help protect the rear end and to be able to move trailers around if he needs to.
The next mod was a Rough Country hidden winch mount. I sold my dad a Badlands 12K ZXR I had previously bough on a 25% off sale, and we installed it with a wireless controller wired to one of the auxiliary switches with a 500 amp relay. The install is pretty simple and straightforward other than cutting some pointless brackets off the engine crossmember.
After that we took it for a more thorough evaluation of its capabilities.
My father was looking at JLs and Broncos to replace his 2011 Mustang as his daily driver, but ended up getting a Bronco since he is a Ford die-hard at heart. He wanted to special order one, but Ford did not open the order banks to folks who did not previously have a reservation/order on file for the 2023 model year, so he was forced to find something on the lot. He ended up with a 2.3L 7 speed manual Badlands in Area 51 and the only option being the "Modular" steel bumper. He had to fly out to Los Angeles and drive it back, but it was a nice excuse for a road trip for him. For those of you who aren't familiar, the Badlands gets you the M210 front diff, lockers front and rear, 4.70 axle gears, a disconnecting sway bar, and Bilstein ESCV shocks with full travel compared to the Sasquatch models.
The factory skid plates are pretty decent
After getting it home, he had to test out the four wheel drive.
The first "mod" was removing the crash bars.
My father is one of those creative types and gets free shit from Amazon for writing amusing product reviews, so he got a freebie hitch to help protect the rear end and to be able to move trailers around if he needs to.
The next mod was a Rough Country hidden winch mount. I sold my dad a Badlands 12K ZXR I had previously bough on a 25% off sale, and we installed it with a wireless controller wired to one of the auxiliary switches with a 500 amp relay. The install is pretty simple and straightforward other than cutting some pointless brackets off the engine crossmember.
After that we took it for a more thorough evaluation of its capabilities.
