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This can't be good!!!!
Ford Raptor frames bending???????
http://www.raptorforumz.com/showthread.php?t=14208
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For a guy driving both Dodge and Toyota pick ups, what are you doing on a Ford site? Yikes!
Just do it!
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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]
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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.
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | 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........
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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...
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I sent this thread to Ford Corporate Sales and asked if it was true. Stay tuned. 
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They are not going to admit to a Toyota guy they didn't have a better ideal.
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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]
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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]
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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.
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| Quote: | 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.
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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?
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boxed
what is boxed frame
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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]
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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.
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