Popping in to say hello. I just picked up a gen2 a few weeks back. I had a gen1 for a short while as well. Never modded the gen1, however I plan on doing some things to the gen2, hence the forum trolling.
I took the truck out to have some fun in the mud the other day with a good friend of mine who wanted to get some good photos of it in it's rightful environment. I won't lie, I got on it pretty hard in the mud. Did plenty of slides and such at significant rpm. This gen2 is so much more fun than the gen1 for times like that. I can feel that boost mid donut and it was scary sometimes, lol.
Anyway, After a 5 min session of intense maneuvers in the mud and dirt. I park it and get out of the truck, leaving it running. It's in full force cool down mode, fans blasting. 2 mins later we hear a noise and we watch in horror as it ****** coolant out the bottom. We are a mile deep into some heavy offroad area and I get worried.
Long story short. I drive the truck home about 10 miles in limp mode, red heat gauge, pissing off many people along the way. Thinking I somehow already cracked something from running it "hard", what I consider acceptable Raptor abuse. Parked it and didn't touch it for 2 days. Myself and the truck had to cool down. I was pissed I broke it on it's maiden mud voyage!
Two days later I take the trusty FJ to autozone and buy some antifreeze to see if this thing is going to hold any of it so I can at least get it to the dealer. Nope, in one end and right out the other like White Castles. For the first time ever in all my warranty purchases, I used road-side and got a flatbed to take her to the dealer. Oh, and btw she was completely covered in dry mud, I thought the dealer would enjoy that. I'm not washing my broken truck in the drive way in 33 degree weather. I had it planned out to say I was doing some work in a really muddy area if any questions came about, lol.
Service called me next morning and said she was ready for pick up. The problem? Just a loose line due to what they think was an ill fitted spring clamp. I was banging it around pretty hard. That in combination with the massive amount of heat and pressure build up probably popped off an already loose clamp. I don't take responsibility though. Seems like poor design or hopefully just a fluke on my truck. Anyone else hear of such a thing happen yet? I know it's still so early for the gen2.
TL;DR - Hi everyone, took raptor mudding and broke off a coolant line due to possibly bad clamp. Truck is fun as hell though!
Low res pic from the same day as incident below and video of my old gen1
https://youtu.be/Ito9BJorpR0
I took the truck out to have some fun in the mud the other day with a good friend of mine who wanted to get some good photos of it in it's rightful environment. I won't lie, I got on it pretty hard in the mud. Did plenty of slides and such at significant rpm. This gen2 is so much more fun than the gen1 for times like that. I can feel that boost mid donut and it was scary sometimes, lol.
Anyway, After a 5 min session of intense maneuvers in the mud and dirt. I park it and get out of the truck, leaving it running. It's in full force cool down mode, fans blasting. 2 mins later we hear a noise and we watch in horror as it ****** coolant out the bottom. We are a mile deep into some heavy offroad area and I get worried.
Long story short. I drive the truck home about 10 miles in limp mode, red heat gauge, pissing off many people along the way. Thinking I somehow already cracked something from running it "hard", what I consider acceptable Raptor abuse. Parked it and didn't touch it for 2 days. Myself and the truck had to cool down. I was pissed I broke it on it's maiden mud voyage!
Two days later I take the trusty FJ to autozone and buy some antifreeze to see if this thing is going to hold any of it so I can at least get it to the dealer. Nope, in one end and right out the other like White Castles. For the first time ever in all my warranty purchases, I used road-side and got a flatbed to take her to the dealer. Oh, and btw she was completely covered in dry mud, I thought the dealer would enjoy that. I'm not washing my broken truck in the drive way in 33 degree weather. I had it planned out to say I was doing some work in a really muddy area if any questions came about, lol.
Service called me next morning and said she was ready for pick up. The problem? Just a loose line due to what they think was an ill fitted spring clamp. I was banging it around pretty hard. That in combination with the massive amount of heat and pressure build up probably popped off an already loose clamp. I don't take responsibility though. Seems like poor design or hopefully just a fluke on my truck. Anyone else hear of such a thing happen yet? I know it's still so early for the gen2.
TL;DR - Hi everyone, took raptor mudding and broke off a coolant line due to possibly bad clamp. Truck is fun as hell though!
Low res pic from the same day as incident below and video of my old gen1
https://youtu.be/Ito9BJorpR0
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