alignment cams? I know little to nothing about alignment, thanks for the explanation above, but now I'm worried. Traded my 2010 5.4 for a 2012 today and I had the 2010 on the middle perch. I was going to do the same on the new one, but am worried about this cam deal. It was my understanding that Ford had originally designed and tested for the truck to be released on this middle perch, but DOT nixed that based on stock bumper height requirements. But, what i am understanding from your post, it doesn't matter wether you move the perch or not, if you need an alignment for any reason, the correct way to do it is using the cams as there will be preloaded tension simply from drooping the suspesion for any alignment? Am i getting this correct? thanks in advance
IF during the alingment the camber or caster needs to be adjusted, then yes cams should be installed. Any f150 made in the last ten or so years is like this. Typically your average f150 won't need the camber or caster adjusted till its aged quite a bit and suspension bushings are worn. But since your making ride hieght adjustments with the perch move the suspension geometry is being affected and needs corrected. How much correction is needed will vary from Raptor to Raptor. One Raptor may get away with no caster/camber adjustment on the second perch where as the next one will eat tires. Really you won't know till you look at the readings. When doing either perch I would just count on doing cam kits and making camber/caster adjustments. Eventually at some point if you keep your Raptor youre going to need them to make adjustments to compensate for suspension as it wears out.
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So, what is the word about limiting straps on front when going to top perch? Pros/cons? Neccessary? Overkill?
-Greg
As it sits now the shocks (in the front at least) limit both droop and compression. I would suspect that going to the second or third perch would put more strain on the shock at droop due to the extra preload. I dunno I'm not overly worried about mine (second perch), I figure fox wouldn't of made the adjustment available if the shock was going to fall apart.