What did u do to your raptor today?

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Aside from creating a new thread. Searching was getting too many results asking about perch collars...

Its new tire time. Anyone on 37's and eibachs (low perch) can provide me their cab to ground height?
 

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What I have done to my recently purchased 94k miles, 2014 ruby red screw I recently purchased.
-Fuse 27 moved
-Replaced purge valve(had code)
-replaced shocks via a shock swap with Brian of Hammer Shocks. (mid perch, schaders of course) What a difference, love it.
-Replaced tranny pan with a drain plug type.
-Replaced rear differential with a drain plug type.
-Replaced tranny(+filter), transaxle, front and rear diff fluids. Flushed and replaced power steering fluid.
-Replaced skid plate nut clips and bolts since I had to cut them off.
-Fixed previous owners led frt. bumper lights install.
-replaced lug nuts with oem size black 1 piece lugs
-Restored headlights the old fashion way aka sanding-polishing my arse off.
-Replaced interior lights and license plate bulbs with leds.
-Removed 3rd brake light lens, polished it and added led bed lights.
-Polished and cut open the puddle lights and installed leds(no I didnt look online and see you can buy a pair until I finished my ocd project).
-Replaced reverse bulbs with leds.
-Novus polished the instrument panel, taillights and mini running leds
-detailed interior
-applied plastic restorer to exterior
-had to use my random orbital to buff out the mineral deposits on all the windows and mirrors
- restored the paint (5 step process

A lot more left on my to do list but I think the truck is finally starting to look like it's my own.


Sir, you replaced an entire truck.
 

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Sir, you replaced an entire truck.
Thanks,lol, not quite it's still red with raptor stickers. FRF comments and running into an older fart in a roush ruby red convinced me to keep it. Here's a few "before" pics. The power steering fluid looked like maple syrup. After the flush the steering wheel turned like the family highlander.
 

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Thanks,lol, not quite it's still red with raptor stickers. FRF comments and running into an older fart in a roush ruby red convinced me to keep it. Here's a few "before" pics. The power steering fluid looked like maple syrup. After the flush the steering wheel turned like the family highlander.
Nice to see that product works on glass, these windows SUCK for hard water spots.
 

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Nice to see that product works on glass, these windows SUCK for hard water spots.
Well the moon roof was the worst and came out crystal clear. I used the white correcting pad too. However, I noticed some very fine scratches in my driver window in the sun after polishing it. The rears look fine so I am thinking it was me that scratched it with the pressure etc. So you might want to look into cerium type polishing kits? The orange pad and orange correcting cream might be a better choice too. While doing the windows I remember being tired and pissed off, thinking why the F did someone buy a ruby red truck and not take care of the finish?
 

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Aside from creating a new thread. Searching was getting too many results asking about perch collars...

Its new tire time. Anyone on 37's and eibachs (low perch) can provide me their cab to ground height?
@Bozz is on 37s and this combo. I think his info is in the strawberry Oreo tread.
 
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