Our billet aluminum rack is not for everyone. If you drive your Bronco on the street with stock tires you don’t need it. If you are one of the many that want to take their Bronco offroad, this is your steering solution. This unit upgrades you to the Ford Performance HOSS 3.0 higher torque setup, packaged in a bombproof housing for the ultimate plug and play package. This Patent Pending design completely changes the way the internals of the Ford Performance HOSS 3.0 is stabilized making it the strongest steering solution on the market.
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This is much more than a simple housing. Our 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. We use the internals and motor from a Ford Performance HOSS 3.0 rack to ensure proper electronic integration and compatibility with all OE systems. 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. This rack has been tested throughout the country on some of the hardest trails by Loren Healy and the Fun-Haver crew. This is the rack Loren runs in the FunRunner XL with 42’s, long travel, and our 4 gear race portals. It has more than proven its durability.
While Loren has run this rack on 42’s we absolutely do not recommend doing this. We don’t even recommend running 40’s on a Bronco. The issue is not our rack housing. The torque output of the Ford Performance motor is just not sufficient for scenarios of low tire pressure and lots of traction. In short, you will stall out your steering, We run 38’s currently on our Bronco at 12psi on the trails and while this is NOT like hydraulic assist and never will be, it does steer fine.
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Our 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.
Our Billet Steering Rack with HOSS 3.0 internals comes standard with Ford Performance 16mm tie rods. These are much bigger and stronger than the factory 2.0 tie rods. If you want a larger diameter tie rod than the Ford Performance ones included in the rack we sell both Icon and Apex Chassis. It should be noted that the boots on both of these require a bit of carful stretching to get over the larger diameter housings of the HOSS 3.0 (our rack matches the HOSS 3.0 end boot diameter)
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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