Our Stage 2 steering upgrade is perfect for those who want to run 37” tires and already have a Hoss 3.0 steering rack. This unit takes all of your factory 3.0 guts and swaps them over to our full billet aluminum housing. It features all of the benefits of our Stage 3 billet system but allows you to save some money and not purchase the HOSS 3.0 rack in addition to our housing. If you have a Bronco Raptor or already own a HOSS 3.0, you can take your existing rack and bulletproof it with this upgrade. This Patent Pending design completely changes the way the internals of the Ford Bronco steering rack are stabilized giving you the confidence to know you the rack is not going to be your failure point.
*To make this upgrade, you must ship us your rack and have us install the guts into our billet housing. You can also take your vehicle to one of our authorized installation shops around the country and have them do the swap. If you feel that you are mechanically inclined enough to tackle this project yourself, we have a housing swap video on our Instructions & FAQ page.
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This is much more than a simple housing. Our Patent Pending billet aluminum steering rack is a completely redesigned solution for those who want the security of knowing that this housing will not break. We have redesigned how the rack bar is stabilized in the housing, eliminating the common failure points on both sides of the rack. The factory rack bar is stabilized by 1.5 points of contact. Our billet housings stabilizes the rack in 4 points of contact and adds a massive amount of material to high stress housing areas making it the strongest steering rack available.
While this is a massive improvement over the factory rack, we still maintain full OEM compatibility. The OE rack is fully integrated with factory ABS electronics and this critical component is fully maintained with the 74Weld Billet Bronco Steering Rack. Plan on driving your Bronco mostly on the street? No problem, this is NOT an offroad only product. It will function perfectly for road driving with zero adverse effects. The fitment and feel is perfect for road use, but strong enough to take heavy offroad abuse.
DOWNLOAD SPEC SHEETOur 6061 Billet housing is a massive strength upgrade vs the factory cast aluminum housing.
We purposely left a whole lot more material in critical areas of our rack making it much stronger. Modeled in CAD with FEA analysis, we are able to see where weak points are from impacts, frame twist, shock loads, and typical rock crawling scenarios. We then take this data and use it to guide us on design, giving you the strongest rack available. By adding material in high stress zones the rack housing is substantially stronger. How much stronger? We are confident you can’t ever break our housings and we will back that with a lifetime warranty.
We completely redesigned how the rack bar is stabilized by the housings. By machining the critical pieces on state of the art 5 axis CNC machines we are able to dramatically increase surface area contact around the rack and pinion by over 580% compared to stock. This huge increase leads to a much more robust rack because the rack bar is properly supported in every direction.
The factory 14mm tie rods are not the best. If you plan to take your vehicle offroad these are not the tie rods you want to rely on to get you back home. We recommend Icon tie rods for anything from a 0-2” lift. If you run more than a 2” lift you MUST go with a clevis style heim joint setup. For a clevis and heim joint setup we recommend the FunHaver Offroad steering links.
– No I don’t need Icon tie rods, I already town them +$0
– Add Icon tie rods to my setup +$349
Every part with make is designed and manufactured in house in San Diego, Ca. We take Made in USA one step further and make it all under one roof in a state of the art AS9100 Certified machine shop.
74Weld products have been put to the test in the world’s toughest off-road races. From the sands of Baja to the boulders of Johnson Valley, winning off-road race teams rely on 74Weld for high precision, custom engineered, and meticulously machined critical components.
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