Your Raptor and It's Alignment

[ktm505sx]

Dont touch anything is already right. For start touching the aligment the guys at the shop left my steering out of center.
They told me the tires were at 30psi thats why it could not get on the center.
I should leave it as it was before

 

[Netix]

Dont touch anything is already right. For start touching the aligment the guys at the shop left my steering out of center.
They told me the tires were at 30psi thats why it could not get on the center.
I should live it as it was before

Yeah that's ********...


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[wanderfalk]

Here is another update. The body shop removed the drivers side spring and checked, it's not bent. The loosened everything in the back and retightened and they say it's now in alignment. (I'd love to understand how a solid rear axle has toe and camber other than 0.00. Is it tolerances in the housing?)

I would like to know what the experts think of these latest numbers.

how did the toe and camber numbers change on the rear axel?

 

[AZEngineer]

how did the toe and camber numbers change on the rear axel?

I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. The body shop pulled the drives side spring off the truck to make sure it was not bent. They also checked the mounts all looked true. Then they loosened the bolts holding the springs to the rear axle, retighted, and the rear was better.

I don't know how much calibration variance there is from one machine to the next or how much setup tolerance between setups for the tech.

Trucks drives pretty well but I may take it to a highly recommended shop to have them check. Sadly it's at least an hour away.

 

[wanderfalk]

thanks for the answer on the rear axel setting. i did not understand how the rear wheels could change camber.

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It seems most of this thread deals with the difficulty encountered when changing to higher perch setting. Once the alignments are corrected, do most forum member do ok with their cv joints and iwe engagements. I will do the mid perch and a stage four plus this week and hoping not to have to put out to many fires. After traveling over some rougher trails last week I can see the advantage of lifting the front a bit .Most of all i need the four wheel drive engagement to stay reliable, i travel solo to remote areas in the desert.

 

[pirate air]

With mid perch height cv angles and iwe engagement should be fine. But, you can destroy either at any height.

 

[wanderfalk]

With mid perch height cv angles and iwe engagement should be fine. But, you can destroy either at any height.

So how would one best avoid destruction? I only engage 4wheel mode at low speeds and foot off gas.

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One of the top vendors on this site is recommending not using the cam based on recent raptor run results. ie people using the cams are losing the alignments. could you weight in on this.

 

[pirate air]

So how would one best avoid destruction? I only engage 4wheel mode at low speeds and foot off gas.

Keep your foot out of it if you can. Try not to get a bunch of wheel speed when your stuck, because once the tire catches traction it shock loads the parts.

 

[BGA23]

Alignment settings

Buying a used '12 Raptor from a non-Ford dealer and I'm having them do the alignment, they sent me this. Does it look OK? Is it normal for left and right numbers to be close, but not the same?

 

[pirate air]

Buying a used '12 Raptor from a non-Ford dealer and I'm having them do the alignment, they sent me this. Does it look OK? Is it normal for left and right numbers to be close, but not the same?

It's normal for the left to right numbers to be different. Spec wise its not horrible but not great either.