GEN 2 2017 Suspension Refresh Kit

[Donovan]

Gents,

Do these types of kits exist?

I need everything that has a bushing on/in it and shocks/struts. I want to refresh my suspension. I have 173k on these *******.

 

[EricM]

Yes. Ford sells the kit at all of their dealers.

It's called a "new truck".

Go to a parts site and make a list.

 

[JohnyPython]

You can rebuild but I just got new shocks from Rockauto

 

[Donovan]

Ok. Thanks gents.

 

[Badgertits]

my understanding is ball joints aren’t necessarily sold for Raptors, but that was kinda the case for my C5Z & I got moog ones that fit & was able to press them into the OEM forged A-arms. I would think the cost of the whole a-arm assembly w/ ball joint is pretty damn expensive vs just ball joints themselves, which you could change out yourself too. Sway bars & endlinks are available (hellwig/moog/mevotech) you may need to replace wheel bearings

 

[EricM]

my understanding is ball joints aren’t necessarily sold for Raptors, but that was kinda the case for my C5Z & I got moog ones that fit & was able to press them into the OEM forged A-arms. I would think the cost of the whole a-arm assembly w/ ball joint is pretty damn expensive vs just ball joints themselves, which you could change out yourself too. Sway bars & endlinks are available (hellwig/moog/mevotech) you may need to replace wheel bearings

What about all of the control arm bushings? Steering rack? Body mounts? Engine mounts? Transmission mounts? It's all rubber.

Nobody is refeshing all of it. It's too expensive. That's why new trucks ride so nice and are so smooth compared to old trucks.

I did the whole front end on my last truck myself minus the LCA bushings. Everything from the steering box out. It was a huge improvment over the 100K stuff for sure. Still not as good as a new truck though.

 

[Badgertits]

What about all of the control arm bushings? Steering rack? Body mounts? Engine mounts? Transmission mounts? It's all rubber.

Nobody is refeshing all of it. It's too expensive. That's why new trucks ride so nice and are so smooth compared to old trucks.

I did the whole front end on my last truck myself minus the LCA bushings. Everything from the steering box out. It was a huge improvment over the 100K stuff for sure. Still not as good as a new truck though.

Again- On a different vehicle my C5Z- the bushings for the upper/lower control arms where they attach to the frame are injection molded rubber of some sort (not sure on raptor would have to check) & can’t really be pressed out cleanly but they’re also tucked in tight to the body & on a car like a vette that sees no salt/snow limited rain & sits indoors a lot there’s not a lot of reason for those bushings to degrade- they were/are still quite supple so I left em in place & instead media blasted the arms & gave em a black epoxy coating, pressed in new moog greaseable ball joints, replaced front/rear sway bars + bushing + end links, the inner/outer tie rods/toe links all 4 corners, the steering rack, the wheel bearings, the steering rack bushing (yep), the motor mounts (poly), swapped the thin stamped steel tunnel plate for a thick billet aluminum one etc etc etc

You could go to similar lengths w/ a Raptor but it ain’t a collector car (unless you want it to be I guess) & isn’t old enough to have all the aftermarket part options I’m guessing (maybe wrong)

I don’t think you need to tho- I think the front top hats/shock buckets or whatever you call em could be replaced, the shocks, the leafs, the coil springs, the tie rods, the swaybar bushings/links, & IF the a-arm bushings look ok & IF you can source correct sized ball joints doing that instead of replacing A-arms would save $$$$….but there are also better aftermarket control arms available too

It just depends on how “nuts” you wanna get