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I'd have to take the truck up to 13,000 feet to test it. When I got to lower altitude, and for the four years since, the brakes have been entirely normal. But it sounds like it might be worth having the shop replace the check valve and the booster just in case.

Thank you! That's the best idea I've heard yet. How does one fix that?

Because I'm old and stupid. When they started working perfectly coming down, and I checked brake fluid levels, I chalked it up to a freak incident. Since then the brakes have been fine. But I haven't gone up to altitude like that since. I've replaced fluid, pads, and rotors. The brake...

That's what I thought too. But I stayed off the brakes almost constantly and used engine braking to limp. Unless brakes heat up incredibly quickly at altitude, that wasn't the issue.

Does altitude somehow effect braking performance? A few years ago (during COVID), my wife and I drove the Raptor off-road across the country on the Transamerica Trail. The trail took us up over Engineer Summit (?) which, as I recall, was over 13,000 ft elevation. When we started down the back...

Thank you @Pacific Wheel ...Justin is it? I have seen your responses on other suspension threads and know you are knowledgeable. You are dead on that since it is a daily driver (and park-er), I don't want to change turning radius. So it looks like I'm going stock width LCA. Having said that...

That makes SO much sense! Thank you @W0n70n. I didn't think I was going to get a response to this thread. Thank you for taking the time to explain. Keeping the drive wheels on the ground was something that would have never crossed my mind.

Which is better for high-speed offroading like Baja, more wheel travel or more shocks? I'm just getting around to modding my Gen 1 suspension and don't know much about it. I see options for lower control arms that allow for a second (bypass) shock in the front. And I see options for adding...

What didn’t you like about the Platinum Hybrid? Been considering one of those as a daily driver and hanging on to my 2014 Raptor for off-roading.

No experience to add, but many have spoken in other threads about the drawback to bags being the loss of wheel travel even when the bags are not inflated. The bags will work fine. The Raptor will tow fine. It just defeats the purpose of the truck in driving high speed off-road. If yours is a...

Thanks guys. Okay, so it will make it but will be really slow. Will it be so slow that it will annoy other participants? Should I tell him it’s not a good idea to do the run?

I'm trying to do a Raptor Run in Baja next year and have a buddy with a F-350 Tremor that would like to go also. For those of you that have done a Baja run, could a Tremor do it? If it could do it, would it be so slow that it would be annoying to everyone else on the trip? I'm not sure if any...

Thank you, Thom. It mattered. Thank you for sharing, John.

Welcome to the forum!

I always wondered why Cerakote wasn’t used more in the off-road world. Love seeing this and love what you’ve done.

IMHO your truck will be fine. No comment on cost of fuel/depreciation vs rental—I haven’t done the math. I drove Utah to NYC towing a trailer. Then came back by driving mostly off-road on the TransAmerica Trail from North Carolina to Utah. Had zero reliability issues and I wasn’t taking it easy...

I'm in North Salt Lake and also have a black Gen 1. Welcome to FRF.

Just a couple of brief adds: 1. Like most of you I'm sure, I tend to help people more than I need help myself. First add is some fuel. Surprisingly common to need recovery just because they ran out of gas. 2. I see the shovel in your pics, John. Adding the shovel to your points of MaxTrax...

Yep, I'm one of those die hard Gen 1 owners that uses it off-road. Joined the forum in 2016 after buying a 2014. I joined just as the Gen 2's were coming out. IMHO, the Gen 2's are better in every objective way. But I don't buy just on objective. I think we all buy based on what we value...

I'm holding on to my Gen 1 while I wait to put down money on the R. I'm waiting because I'm betting that the R designation will mean a V-8, more horsepower, and better off-road capabilities. My wish list is a V-8 with active exhaust (keep 'er quiet while cruising, let 'er roar off-road) and...

Perfect. Thank you!

Where is that 2slo? I live in SLC and was trying to figure out where it was.

Me too. Love this setup.

Thank you!! Do you offer an exchange program on all performance shocks? Or is that specific to the stock Raptor shocks? As a daily driver, I can't really afford to have my truck out of commission for a few weeks every time the shocks need rebuilding. If there's no exchange program on the 3.0...

Do aftermarket shocks require rebuild after an appropriate interval like the Fox shocks on my Gen 1? I'm at 100k miles and about to do the exchange program at Forged Offroad. But now I'm wondering if I buy 3.0 Fox or Kings whether I can stop worrying about rebuilding. I also have hope of...