Slow bumps on the street with a ford raptor, what is that.

[LandFill]

This happened to me couple of weeks ago, because i hit it hard offroad going to the farm

My advise, get the bump stop kit and weld the exahaust connections.

 

[frankie]

Any recommendations on bump stop kits?

 

[ktm505sx]

Either icons or fox are fine

 

[Cleave]

Rpg's kit has the most support, sdhq and icon's kits would have better driving performance due to reduced weight, but unless you race your raptor you probably wouldn't notice the difference

 

[New Guy]

^Now I realize I'm just an ignorant hick lol... I just blast through them damn speed bumps (2" or less) without a second thought. Truthfully all my friends laugh cause I tell em' I'm huntin' those damn speed bumps that are the mortal enemy of my lowered GT500-clone stang.

Shit... and here I thought $50K+ would allow me a little power on those wee little speed bumps

 

[Cleave]

I seriously doubt there is an actual speed bump that could damage a raptor, feel like it, maybe, actually do any damage, no

 

[Aaron]

To do any real meaningful damage the bump you hit is going to have to be taller than your available up travel. So in a stock raptor is say 6-7" would be the range. You will also have to be going fast enough to make the impact sufficiently violent to bend the frame. No idea what the magic number is, but having bent mine on a bump that size I can tell you it was North of 50 mph.

The truck is also likely to donkey kick the rear end up in a "frame bender" type hit. So that also speaks to the severity of the impact needed to do it.

 

[ktm505sx]

To do any real meaningful damage the bump you hit is going to have to be taller than your available up travel. So in a stock raptor is say 6-7" would be the range. You will also have to be going fast enough to make the impact sufficiently violent to bend the frame. No idea what the magic number is, but having bent mine on a bump that size I can tell you it was North of 50 mph.

The truck is also likely to donkey kick the rear end up in a "frame bender" type hit. So that also speaks to the severity of the impact needed to do it.

The speed bumps that i have been through has cause dunkey kick on the rear suspension. i think around 50mph, driving like that cause the exhaust system to disconnect from the headers. I think is not nessesary to hit the stocks bumps stops what matter is the hit worse if you have the tire psi 41psi up.

From today i started to drive my truck as a normal f150, see and avoid square potholes and slowing down at speed bumps. Until i get leaf springs with 3.0 suspension and bump stop

 

[New Guy]

I seriously doubt there is an actual speed bump that could damage a raptor, feel like it, maybe, actually do any damage, no

To do any real meaningful damage the bump you hit is going to have to be taller than your available up travel. So in a stock raptor is say 6-7" would be the range. You will also have to be going fast enough to make the impact sufficiently violent to bend the frame. No idea what the magic number is, but having bent mine on a bump that size I can tell you it was North of 50 mph.

The truck is also likely to donkey kick the rear end up in a "frame bender" type hit. So that also speaks to the severity of the impact needed to do it.

You know that saying where they say, People only listen to what they want to Hear?

^Well here's what I gotta say to Cleave and Aaron, Ahhh Shhiiiiitttttttttt Hells Yeah
Going to keep on smashing through those low bumps at 60+ mph like always then.

And in case anyone's wondering, yeah I'm going to quietly ignore ktm505sx and his sweet 3.0 set up because on the off-hand chance I'm horribly wrong and Cleave and Aaron you're/'ll be to blame...

and Fffuuuuuccccckkkkkkkkkkkk will be my next reaction when/if I bottom out or bend on a < 2" speed bump.

 

[CougarKiller]

Taking off the Swaybar seems to help on speedbumps and low speed stuff...

Get a SDHQ frame kit while you are saving pennies for a bump stop kit