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This can't be good!!!!

bajaguy - 7-8-2011 at 07:51 PM

Ford Raptor frames bending???????

http://www.raptorforumz.com/showthread.php?t=14208

beachbum1A - 7-9-2011 at 07:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by bajaguy
Ford Raptor frames bending???????

http://www.raptorforumz.com/showthread.php?t=14208


For a guy driving both Dodge and Toyota pick ups, what are you doing on a Ford site? Yikes!

choyero - 7-9-2011 at 08:28 AM

nope...that can't be good. I read 7 of the 34 pages about the bent frames and it does not seem like it took much to bend them.

Why in the hell would they not box the frames on a truck that is designed/promoted to run the desert. I bet the truck they raced the baja in was boxed.

10 out of 14 trucks that ran vegas to barstow affected? This is a coffin nail for the Raptor program, that and the price of fuel.

[Edited on 7-9-2011 by choyero]

TMW - 7-9-2011 at 08:57 AM

There are fixes for it and I'm sure Ford will take care of it. They don't make that many to where it would be too big a deal.

bajaguy - 7-9-2011 at 09:03 AM

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Originally posted by beachbum1A

For a guy driving both Dodge and Toyota pick ups, what are you doing on a Ford site? Yikes!





I like to be well informed........

TMW - 7-9-2011 at 09:06 AM

Here's one fix. I also heard is was a problem on all Ford F150s that are driven hard off road.

http://www.superduty-hq.com/sdhqfordraptorrearframereinforce...

Neal Johns - 7-9-2011 at 09:20 AM

I sent this thread to Ford Corporate Sales and asked if it was true. Stay tuned. :biggrin:

Toyota's Rule!

TMW - 7-9-2011 at 09:55 AM

They are not going to admit to a Toyota guy they didn't have a better ideal.

TMW - 7-9-2011 at 09:58 AM

This is kind of funny, maybe not for the truck owners, but remember when the new Toyota Tundra came out and there was a video of a Ford guy going over the truck frame and saying this was not good or that was not good etc. I guess what goes around comes around.

Here's that video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRfE_XAk2mE

[Edited on 7-9-2011 by TW]

choyero - 7-9-2011 at 11:00 AM

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Originally posted by TW
Here's one fix. I also heard is was a problem on all Ford F150s that are driven hard off road.

http://www.superduty-hq.com/sdhqfordraptorrearframereinforce...


The truck shown displaying the kit, did away with the factory bumpstops all together and with airbumps mounted on a custom mount along with bypass shocks. Somebody put some money into that rig. Aren't they about $50k stock?

I'd be so po'd if I bought a raptor and this happened.

[Edited on 7-9-2011 by choyero]

mtgoat666 - 7-9-2011 at 11:11 AM

if you drive it hard, of course you will bend the frame.
if you drive it hard enough to bottom out the stops, something has to give, either the stops will deform past breaking point and crush and fail, or the frame will bend.

DENNIS - 7-9-2011 at 11:32 AM

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Originally posted by mtgoat666
if you drive it hard, of course you will bend the frame.
if you drive it hard enough to bottom out the stops, something has to give, either the stops will deform past breaking point and crush and fail, or the frame will bend.


You sound like one of my doctors.

TMW - 7-9-2011 at 02:14 PM

Goat I'll bet your 4Runner could do all that the Raptor's were doing and more and never show it. Let's test it to see. When do you want to start testing?

boxed

doradodan - 7-10-2011 at 10:58 AM

what is boxed frame

Maderita - 7-10-2011 at 12:19 PM

A "boxed" frame is a chassis which consists of the two long frame rails each having four sides.
It is stronger than the "C" channel, three-sided frame rail.
The boxed frame is more rigid and less prone to bending and cracking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(vehicle)
The complete URL must be copied and pasted to open the correct page.

[Edited on 7-10-2011 by Maderita]

TMW - 7-10-2011 at 12:23 PM

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but a box frame means the frame is made from an enclosed boxed in metal design usually 2inches by 6 inches for full size trucks. Class 8 trucks must use a stock type boxed frame. Trophy Trucks use a tube design like a buggy. If you own a truck look under it at the frame and you'll see what I'm talking about. Generally the outside frame rails run the full length with cross over rails that may or may not be boxed and this forms an H type pattern front to back. Chevy started using a tube on their cross overs about 1999. At least in some areas.