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Author Topic: raptor problems BIGBALLFACTOR ¯ Member # 7277 posted                              http://www.raptorforumz.com/showthread.php?t=14208 Posts: 6908 | From: okc | Registered: Dec 2006  |  : iceman302 ¯ Member # 7180 posted                              Please. 10 guys on the same run that overdrove their trucks. They hit 12"-18" kickers at speeds north of 60 MPH. You're asking the suspension to soak up a brutal impact in only 4 inches of travel. Of course they bottomed out the suspension and tweaked their frames. There's not a production truck out there that could withstand what those guys did to their trucks. 5 hours of sustained high speed running (over 100 MPH at times) over whoops, dips, and bumps resulted in overheating the shocks. That diminished their ability to absorb the bumps and then they found a monster one. You add in the fact that many had a couple hundred pounds (or more) of payload and you had a recipe for disaster. The kind of impact those guys found was the worst possible scenario. When you jump the truck, the suspension has the full 13 inches of travel to absorb the impact. When you hit the equivalent of 2 or 3 speed bumps stacked on top of each other at the speeds those guys were running, coupled with an already compressed suspension, this is the result. The route was prerun by the sponsor but nobody bothered to mark the hazards so people could slow down. It was a total SNAFU and these guys managed to find a combination of factors that pushed the truck too far. And now they're paying the price. [ July 11, 2011, 12:47 AM: Message edited by: iceman302 ] -------------------- '65 Mustang Fastback Posts: 4171 | From: Rancho Murieta | Registered: Oct 2006  |  : iceman302 ¯ Member # 7180 posted                              If you want to read a much more informative thread on the subject, click on the link below. Pay close attention to the posts from Bad Company (starting at #121). He's a mechanical engineer and goes into great detail on the loads and impacts these guys were subjecting their trucks to. http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f39/houston-we-have-problem-bent-frame-thread-3103/index13.html -------------------- '65 Mustang Fastback Posts: 4171 | From: Rancho Murieta | Registered: Oct 2006  |  : LXjames ¯ Member # 10791 posted                              good job iceman. there worried about there beds being miss aligned but there taking a pick up truck and running them into the ground just because ford SAID it could be done? please, be prepared for whatever happens if your gonna run your shit to the ground. -------------------- On Point Motorsport prez. King Lx Posts: 4761 | From: Pittsburg CA | Registered: Mar 2011  |  : Wildfire532FB CAFords OG Member # 1482 posted                                 The problem is the retards behind the wheel. -------------------- ./_ _ _ ___ __\ (]]]_ _ o _ _[[[) |\_o_ __ __o_/| |__|..........|__| 68 Fastback 84 CJ7 94 HMMWV 95 GT 03 F350 17 Fusion Hybrid Posts: 17578 | From: 530 | Registered: Jun 2002  |  :

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