While most of us would rather see a Bronco suffer the effects of being rolled on some backwoods trail than go through the utter humiliation of being lowered, each has his/her own prerogative. I personally know that this particular question rears its ugly head about once or twice a year in this forum. Just often enough to have made it to my FAQ project. So, if any information comes out of the project, I would like to know about it. I am going to include in the FAQ's if possible.

On a side note, lowering will reduce approach, breakover, and departure angles in any vehicle. If the hydraulics are going to be used to restore the Bronco to its factory height for wheeling purposes, that begins to make some sense. However since most lowering projects include switching oversprung axles to undersprung this could prove a difficult task especially in the rear. The strange thing would be to see a Bronco equipped with the kind of rubber necessary for wheeling yet sitting on the street eye-level with an S-10 (car in truck's clothing). Good luck airing down with 22" rims and skinny wall tires. Although wheel spinners may well reduce the amont of brush and foliage caught in the wheels and brakes.

 

The hydraulics used to lower the truck and then raise it back up will not have the proper strength for any sort of off roading. While the systems may be strong enough to bounce old Impalas around, that's a different type of strength, designed for a different purpose; and would not be helpful in an off road area where things are getting pushed in all sorts of directions. Those skinny metal tubes that are moving up and down in the hydraulic system would be extended all the way out when the Bronco would be in it's "lifted" mode for off roading, and they are going to be subjected to forces from all angles that they were never designed for. All it takes is for one of those rods to bend a little, and then it will be stuck at that height.

I can just see the guy coming out of the woods now, the poor Bronco at a different height on each corner, wobbling...

I don't mean to put the guy down, whatever floats his boat, y'know? But if plans on 4 wheeling a Bronco with lowrider hydraulics, all I can say is that I'd like to watch it, sounds like a lotta fun (for the spectator, anyway).

 

Hydrolics are illegal to use on the road in most states, like here im Michigan. If he wants try airbags. Hydrolics are going to replace the shock...so you know what a Bronco would be like with NO SHOCKS!!! He'll be replacing his frame, ball joints, and kidneys soon after for sure!!!

 

keep it in the road and it will be no problem, the bronc looks good anyway up or down(at least for me)

 

I've pondered on the thought of swapping a Bronco over to 2 wheel drive, lower it down, and put some fat tires on it. I've seen Blazers and Ramchargers that were factory 2 wheel drive, and they looked sweet lowered. I don't care if anybody else thinks it's a bad idea. I'm from the South, but I think that 92EBnTX
calling somebody a Yankee is both very rude, and against the rules of this site. It's attitudes like his that give us southerners a bad name.

 

The Blazers and Ramchargers, as you said, came factory 2WD and are therefore as easy to lower as any other vehicle. Broncos only came 4WD, and to lower one would be a large job that, in my opinion, would not be justified by the end result. If you are doing it to be different, then you want people to notice the truck, right? How many people are really going to notice it, and then think about how hard it was to lower? People call my Bronco a Blazer all the time. They used to call my bright orance 1974 Ramcharger a Blazer too. I'lll bet that a lot of you have had that happen as well. In the end, not too many people are really going to care that you have a lowered Bronco. All they will see is just another lowered truck.

Of course, that is my opinion only. I would always urge anyone to follow their heart and follow their vision when creating a ride. If nothing will scratch your itch besides a lowered Bronco, then by all means go for it!

PS - I was born in NYC but raised in the South. I have never thought of the word Yankee as being an offensive term. Heck, they call their baseball team the Yankees! Please do not create an issue where no issue exists.

 

not too many people are really going to care that you have a lowered Bronco. All they will see is just another lowered truck.

true, but the people who knows that lowering a bronco is not that easy will not only see another lowered truck, they might understand ur hard work , u might we should i will.
u can do what u want to ur ride, depending on ur aplication, he might just want to run it in the street

 

As I said, "If nothing will scratch your itch besides a lowered Bronco, then by all means go for it!"

 

JBronco: A baseball team called the Yankees, and the context of calling somebody a Yankee as a derogatory remark, are two different things. Don't try to lighten what I stated. I know exactly of what I speak. As far as what I said about making a Bronco into a 2 wheel drive, it would be very easy. All the parts will bolt on directly from the same year 2wd F150. Especially the 90's models. I have a 96 Bronco for a daily driver, but very rarely use 4wd. In fact, I've only used it to play in the mud and sand. A 2wd Bronco would be much lighter, and therefor get better mileage and have better performance. Besides all that, YES THEY DID make a 2wd Bronco. They're all over the place in Mexico and South America.

 

I never said that Ford didn't make a 2WD Bronco. I don't know if you are trying to make me look ignorant or what, you seemed pretty proud of yourself there. But I am fully aware of the 2WD Broncos that were made for South America. As the writer is in the US and no mention was made about the Bronco being imported from South America, I _assumed_ that we were speaking about a regular, US issue 4WD Bronco.

As far as the Yankee thing, I didn't see anything wrong with what they said but that does not mean that I am right either. If you were offended, there is a procedure for that, and the procedure does not include publicly airing your complaint in a thread about Broncos. If you are offended by something and think that it falls out of the board's guidelines, you write to the admin and let him take care of it. That is the proper procedure. If the admin thinks that it violates guidelines, he will pull it. It is not your place to publicly call someone out, just because you don't like what they said.

 

I never said that Ford didn't make a 2WD Bronco.
Hmmmmm. Lacking a little credability there.

 

easy guys!!! LOL. I actually did think about lowering mine...well, at least a lot of guys at work want to see it. That wouldnt work for me...I like mud, snow, and trails. Having hydrolics wouldnt allow the body to articulate due to not having shocks. Again, cars with hydrolics are illegal here, just cause those cars beat up our Michigan roads as bad as the semi's do. Plus again...your kidneys. Now for show!!! Seeing a lowered performance oriented Bronco would be just damn sweet wouldn't it. Restylize it too look like an early mustang and you got yourself a hell of a show car....Just don't expect a Bronco to ever see below 14's in the 1/4 unless it's gutted, and fiberglassed.

 

Everybody on this board knows about the 2WD Broncos, at least since thie following thread put the long-standing debate to rest.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...ght=2WD+bronco

Been there, done that.

 

I know J. I just couldn't resist teasing a little. Sorry if I sounded so much like an ***. I actually had no ill intent.

 

I think you meant to say 10s in the 1/4.


full interior
not lowered
only aftermarket fiberglass is a hood.
598ci bigblock
10s with a winch bumper and a front D44.
http://www.superford.org/registry/ve...il.php?id=3878