74 Weld Stage 3 Hoss 3.0 Steering Rack Housing

**This is a bare housing DIY kit. You or your mechanic must swap the internals from your HOSS 3.0 housing into the 74WELD steering rack housing.**

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.

This is the steering solution for those that don’t want to compromise. If you are going to run a large tire you want more power. If you are going to wheel your vehicle you want to know that your rack isn’t going to leave you stranded on the side of the road.  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. Programming is done with the Ford ProCal tool. 

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 off road 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 off road abuse. 

*Note: Will not work with Bronco Raptor.

Features

6061 Aluminum 

Our 6061 Billet housing is a massive strength upgrade vs the factory cast aluminum housing. 

CNC Machined Housing Design

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. 

Rack Bar Stabilization

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. 

Tie Rods 

Our Billet Steering Rack with HOSS 3.0 internals comes standard with Ford Performace 16mm tie rods. These are much bigger and stronger than the factory 2.0 tie rods. If you wish to upgrade further 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 RPG Offroad steering links 

*This rack comes with Ford Performance tie rods