What did you do to your Raptor today? (Gen2)
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FRF is a great family!! Not only can you share and get great info here, but the members are awesome and willing to help out with an install. Here is photo of the four of us after a Saturday spent installing Deaver HD +3 leaf springs and Eibach springs up front. I can't thank these guys enough for spending a Saturday helping me with the install!!
Thanks to @TravisHTX, @melvimbe, and @Hdscreens!! Special thanks to @TravisHTX with all his experience and tools. He's done this mod to his Raptor already and this was his second round! We spent about 5-6 hours on Saturday working, drinking, eating pizza, and having a great time.
Two major lessons learned.
1) When cutting the bolt head off of the stock leaf spring on the driver's side, make sure the bolt head isn't touching the gas tank. We were using regular metal cutting blades in a recipricating saw and not having much effectiveness. The regular blades were just not cutting through the bolt very well. So the bolt head was really getting hot. We probably went through about 9 blades trying to get that bolt cut. After about 5 blades, I happened to notice that the bolt head was starting to melt into the gas tank. It left a pretty good indentation in the side of the tank. I caught it in time and there was no puncture, just an identation where the bolt head was touching it. That would not have been good!!
2) Well we ran out of blades cutting that first bolt head off (but we finally did get it cut) so we sent my wife to Home Depot to get more blades. We told her to ask for the strongest/hardest blades and to get carbide tipped blades if they have them. Well she came back with a carbide tipped blade and that bad boy went right through the second bolt. A single blade to get through the bolt and the blade looks like it can still be used!! Make sure you use a carbide tipped blade if you are trying to cut through these bolt!!
Here are the measurements, before and after:
Stock:
Driver Front - 40.5 in
Passenger Front - 40.5 in
Driver rear - 41.75 in
Passenger Rear - 41.5 in
With Deaver +3 and Eibach:
Driver Front - 42.06 in
Passenger Front - 41.88 in
Driver rear - 42.88 in
Passenger Rear - 43 in
Thanks to @TravisHTX, @melvimbe, and @Hdscreens!! Special thanks to @TravisHTX with all his experience and tools. He's done this mod to his Raptor already and this was his second round! We spent about 5-6 hours on Saturday working, drinking, eating pizza, and having a great time.
Two major lessons learned.
1) When cutting the bolt head off of the stock leaf spring on the driver's side, make sure the bolt head isn't touching the gas tank. We were using regular metal cutting blades in a recipricating saw and not having much effectiveness. The regular blades were just not cutting through the bolt very well. So the bolt head was really getting hot. We probably went through about 9 blades trying to get that bolt cut. After about 5 blades, I happened to notice that the bolt head was starting to melt into the gas tank. It left a pretty good indentation in the side of the tank. I caught it in time and there was no puncture, just an identation where the bolt head was touching it. That would not have been good!!
2) Well we ran out of blades cutting that first bolt head off (but we finally did get it cut) so we sent my wife to Home Depot to get more blades. We told her to ask for the strongest/hardest blades and to get carbide tipped blades if they have them. Well she came back with a carbide tipped blade and that bad boy went right through the second bolt. A single blade to get through the bolt and the blade looks like it can still be used!! Make sure you use a carbide tipped blade if you are trying to cut through these bolt!!
Here are the measurements, before and after:
Stock:
Driver Front - 40.5 in
Passenger Front - 40.5 in
Driver rear - 41.75 in
Passenger Rear - 41.5 in
With Deaver +3 and Eibach:
Driver Front - 42.06 in
Passenger Front - 41.88 in
Driver rear - 42.88 in
Passenger Rear - 43 in
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Hope you enjoy the mods bud. I had a good time helping out. Between the 4 of us, I felt like we knocked it out pretty darn quick.
Today I installed a Whipple Stage 1 kit and new MSD coils. I picked the Whipple system because I live in the Socialist Republic of California and the Whipple kit is somehow legal here. I changed and re-gapped the plugs per Whipple's recommendation, and I figured I should change the coils as well. Truck has 58k miles on it. I bought and installed the MSD coils. Took a little test drive and it feels pretty good. Was hoping for more power, but the gains are there. Coils are supposed to improve MPG, but probably not until I stop putting my foot in it whenever i can.
CHMP
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Beautiful. What size tires you got there?
CoronaRaptor
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Love the look of the scab, true taptorWheels and RPG collars installed today.
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