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Do you know the curb to curb turning diameter?

Alvin in AZ

1,330
46
Venta de la Mesilla
Do you know the curb to curb turning diameter for our dents?
...and please post some of them? :)

They won't be this simple since there's several wheelbases and then
double that because of 2wd and 4wd versions too...
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From a 1990 Bronco brochure posted to FSB... :)
1990 Bronco specs:
Turning diameter curb to curb 36.6 feet
Overall:
-length 180.5"
-height 74.2"
-width 79.1"
Track:
-front 65.1"
-rear 64.4"
Wheelbase 104.7"

How does the Dent-Bronco compare?
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Please include the curb-to-curb specs for my 1975 F150 133" 2wd? :)
That's something I've always wanted to know but never could find it.
Didn't know Ford ever "released" information like that. ;)

I've modified the front-end on my pickup so it'll turn-sharper and would
like to measure it. With no number to compare it to, I hadn't bothered. :/

Alvin in AZ
 
Mil1ion

Mil1ion

Still Da Man
6,277
221
Just Above a Huge Gas Source
133" ...Usually more than the width of a Canadian residential street.
 
Austin

Austin

FTF's #1 Knob Polisher
10,350
297
Cumming, GA
Measured mine the other day... 5789456487654 feet.
 
UNRULEE

UNRULEE

^LARGE carbon footprint^
5,412
424
Coal Country, ND
I can turn my 1979 F250 4x4 around easily within it's own wheelbase, with lots of help from the skinny pedal and a hopped up 400!smiliepeelout
 
LEB Ben

LEB Ben

Arrogant A-hole At-Large
34,919
1,124
outside your house
Alvin...I'm pretty sure I actually saw numbers on this somewhere in the literature I have. I'll give it a look tonight for stock numbers and see if I can find it. Beyond that, in Red, I know it takes 4 rows of parking spaces and the driving aisle in a parking lot, without roasting the Boggers. I dunno how many feet that is though. My Bronco, I need the width of the road in my neighborhood plus the 15ish feet of dirt across the street.


UNRULEE said:
I can turn my 1979 F250 4x4 around easily within it's own wheelbase, with lots of help from the skinny pedal and a hopped up 400!smiliepeelout
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hehehehehehehe. Now if I take this approach, I can turn on the front tire of the direction I'm turning.
 

Alvin in AZ

1,330
46
Venta de la Mesilla
UTfball68 said:
Alvin...I'm pretty sure I actually saw numbers on this somewhere in the
literature I have. I'll give it a look tonight for stock numbers and see if
I can find it.
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Cool, Ben you or maybe Dennis or Bill might have it? :)
I'm looking for the factory numbers. :)

Figured those numbers weren't to be had until I saw the post on FSB. :)

Got me to hoping Ford printed 'em somewhere, but in reality, they are
just for the Bronco so you could compare 'em to a Blazer's? :/ With
Chevy's "flimsy car like front suspension" on their pickups Ford hid their
pickup's turning radius numbers? ...or something like that?

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I've gotten a kick out of the responses tho, like Austin, want to know...
"how many significant figures are in that number? ;)"

And for UnruLee, had a couple dune buggies and using the turning-brake
could turn 'em like a tractor. :) Fast or slow.

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I've reduced the turning radius on the 133" '75 F150 enough to make a
certain u-turn within the curbs at a certain intersection. Couldn't make
it one day and decided to mess with it. After more modifications than I
want to post on the internet, I can easily make that u-turn now.

Not sure, but thinking I made about a 2+1/2 foot difference +/- a foot?

The limiters are the power steering gear, straight radius arms, tire size,
wheel-inset and the "effective length ;)" of the pitman arm.

Trick is to not over-do what the steering gear can turn, for-sure-now...
you don't want the steering gear's innards being the limiter of the motion!

Simply grinding down the bump-stops and thinning the radius arms can
cause that.

---> BTDT (without driving it tho!)

...and realized me and my little hand grinder had gone and stepped in a
big steamy pile of it. LOL :)

Alvin in AZ
 

Alvin in AZ

1,330
46
Venta de la Mesilla
austin26372 said:
In case you were wondering Alvin...
5.789456487654 x 10^12 :D
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Cool. :D

Reminds me of 10th grade chemistry class... the teacher used me for the
example, "what's the square foot of this room?" He measured the width
with calibrated equipment all along the walls and came up with an average
width and accurate to two decimal places. Then he said "Alvin just sat there,
looked back and forth and said 'length is 40 feet'" so, then he multiplied the
two numbers on the blackboard and got a number "accurate to two decimal
places ...or not? ;)".

One significant figure, at best. ;)

Alvin in AZ
 
Mil1ion

Mil1ion

Still Da Man
6,277
221
Just Above a Huge Gas Source
Okay I have the figures,....


Unless I leave the Turn signal on for blocks an 133" WB truck turns a circle in 64.33333 Feet
 

Alvin in AZ

1,330
46
Venta de la Mesilla
Naaaaaw. :/

There's something wrong with that 64+1/3 feet figure.
I just measured it and mine measures less than 45 feet curb to curb.
I'm guessing it was close to 50 to 52 feet before I monkeyed with it.

Got any more specs, Dennis? :)

'75 F150
power steering
133" wheel base

BTW the '91 Bronco turns inside 37' (curb2curb) like Ford's specs say. :)

Butthead in AZ
 
Workin' Rig

Workin' Rig

Stone Cold Bo Norris
723
7
Hudson MI
Alvin in AZ said:
64+1/3 feet? Holy cow. :/

Alvin in AZ
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I wouldnt doubt that thats not close to being correct. My 77 F250 and 78F350 both have a turning radius close to that of an ocean liner.
 

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