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Ford has a cam kit available but I don't have the part number handy (I could look it up tomorrow). The company I prefer and use on my truck is called Specialty Products Company. I believe its the same company SDHQ is using. Your local alignment shop should also be able to get specialty products company products. The Raptor takes the standard f150 kit, I can also look up that part number.In order to adjust camber/caster on the raptor, the lower control arms have to be moved/adjusted, at the chassis end. To do this you loosen the lower control arm bolts and movement is allowed by slots in the frame. Without the alignment cams making camber/caster adjustments has to be done with the weight off the control arm/tire being adjusted. Because as soon as you loosen the control arm bolts, the weight of the truck forces the control arm out/away from the chassis. There's no way to force the arm back to the right spot without taking the weight off the arm by raising the truck/weight off the tire. The problem with this is the control arms at full droop, when you tighten the control arm bolts then set the truck back down the bushings are now pre loaded which causes wear. The way the cams are designed you can move the arms while most of the weight is still on the arm/tire. You still need to lift the truck up a little but not till full droop like before. This makes it easier on the bushings. I know what cams you're talking about on the jeeps. I think a lot of the problem with that is the metal is too thin. Sometimes on those I'll make adjustments and everything just wants to bend rather than move. You're getting a lot more metal with the Raptor and bolts twice the size. Even with this I was knocking my alignment out fairly often but these were after pretty hard hits. The cam kit does a good job locking everything in place. I've had very little movement since installing mine some 17000 ish miles ago. Some vendors/people think they lock the arms in too good and you risk doing more damage to the frame. But hell, if youre driving the truck hard enough to potentially rip a control arm off you should anticipate some serious damage happening.
Ford has a cam kit available but I don't have the part number handy (I could look it up tomorrow). The company I prefer and use on my truck is called Specialty Products Company. I believe its the same company SDHQ is using. Your local alignment shop should also be able to get specialty products company products. The Raptor takes the standard f150 kit, I can also look up that part number.
In order to adjust camber/caster on the raptor, the lower control arms have to be moved/adjusted, at the chassis end. To do this you loosen the lower control arm bolts and movement is allowed by slots in the frame. Without the alignment cams making camber/caster adjustments has to be done with the weight off the control arm/tire being adjusted. Because as soon as you loosen the control arm bolts, the weight of the truck forces the control arm out/away from the chassis. There's no way to force the arm back to the right spot without taking the weight off the arm by raising the truck/weight off the tire. The problem with this is the control arms at full droop, when you tighten the control arm bolts then set the truck back down the bushings are now pre loaded which causes wear. The way the cams are designed you can move the arms while most of the weight is still on the arm/tire. You still need to lift the truck up a little but not till full droop like before. This makes it easier on the bushings.
I know what cams you're talking about on the jeeps. I think a lot of the problem with that is the metal is too thin. Sometimes on those I'll make adjustments and everything just wants to bend rather than move. You're getting a lot more metal with the Raptor and bolts twice the size. Even with this I was knocking my alignment out fairly often but these were after pretty hard hits. The cam kit does a good job locking everything in place. I've had very little movement since installing mine some 17000 ish miles ago. Some vendors/people think they lock the arms in too good and you risk doing more damage to the frame. But hell, if youre driving the truck hard enough to potentially rip a control arm off you should anticipate some serious damage happening.
