Mine is an early 17.
One at a time:
Cam phasers. Fords machining for the park mode or carved a ramp on one or both phasers. Ford unused the same phasers up to 2020 to get rid of the piles of phasers they had
I made sure they used the new design on the back side parking pin.
Other sound:
Sounds like phasers but actually it’s the turbo linkage. Have someone else start your truck and you can hear and see it happen. You can also eliminate phaser vs turbo rattle by doing the WOT STARTUP. truck won’t start but will build oil pressure. Full throttle for 7 seconds then remove foot from throttle and rattle goes away. This tells you it’s phasers.
Blow off valve is there only to return oil build up and gasses for eps crap. Problem here is if you allow tat crap to be burned you are actually lowering the octane. I put one on mine (actually ad before I picked up my brand new truck). Mine did both sides and I put a brass valve on to dump it. I was amazed at the amount of what looked like coffee with cream and about 8 ounces. So imho that much caught ( you won’t get all of it) will lower fuel’s octane resulting in lugging which is very bad on these engines.
Luckily I have a 17 which is the only year still 2025 that you can lock out gears for city vs highway driving. I actually get better mileage by only giving the engine 5-6 gears. Secondly the 17 has a computer controlled oil pump. Again the only year.
Conclusion or anecdotal you pick. Oh lastly the 17 has a GT500 fuel pump in it. Yes only the 17.
After the phase replacement/I replaced all of the other parts not covered (no labor cost) because I was getting ready to make 600 plus Whp and a full e85 setup meaning full flex fuel. No science project at every filling can run any amount of E I want without doing a thing. I did everything with efficiency as the ultimate objective. Nothing in running the motor is or has been changed above Fords settings meaning rpm level, boost level, oil pressure level (remember 17’s) oil pressure is already adjusted by the computer so everything going in leaving then spinning CPR stage 5’s with additional fuel ID 1050X on the standard injector side and by default that cleans the backside of the intake valves BONUS. SO after two hero runs of 670plus we decided to pull back to 600 /610 who.
The point behind this book is if this motor pushes a ford GT well why not a Ripping Raptor. I have 5 pages of parts we charged and yes it cost me close to 60k but I know it’s not a cheap throw bigger turbs add some timing and grenade and be surprised. See you at 150k miles of smiles.
I hope the begging solves and explains the issues some are having. I also don’t think it’s very prevalent.
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‘24 Raptor — Graphics, keep or delete?
