off topic / traction control

[Shirley, Mark R]

I agree.  Anything over a 2 door explorer was pushing it.  
Ever look at the suspension on a TTB ranger?  Tiny!  The 
Center of gravity being high didn't help either.  I had heard
that the Bronco2's were especially prone to rollover due to narrow,
short wheelbase/high CG.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Bryant [mailto:BRYANTE at ghsp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:17 AM
To: 'diy_efi at diy-efi.org'
Subject: RE: off topic / traction control


> And it's not that the Explorer was poorly designed, it's a truck,
> designed to drive like a truck.  Where they got into trouble was
> changing tire specs to get it to ride nice.

Much of the problem came with trying to place a large wagon body onto the
relatively narrow Ranger platform.  Toss in the Twin-Traction-Beam front end
and piss-poor tires, and you're talking about a very marginal vehicle.  I'm
not saying that Ford is to blame for the accidents - hell, there's been a
lot of very marginal vehicles released by the Big Three over the past many
years. 

Eric Bryant
mailto:bryante at ghsp.com
http://www.novagate.com/~bryante 
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