Recent content by ratty

Next time it won't start, pop the hood and just disconnect the MAF sensor and see if it'll start. A dirty or damaged MAF sensor will give an incorrect signal to your computer, telling it to lean out the fuel charge to the point that it just won't run (or, make it go too rich, but I think the...

If there's any damage or corrosion to the wire from the sender to the gauge, or to a ground wire, the resistance in the wire will increase, telling your gauge there's less fuel in the tank than there really is (less resistance = more fuel, more resistance = less fuel). Before replacing anything...

Follow-up on this issue... u-joints are fine, outer axle bearings are fine, ring and pinion and spider gears look perfect... Still can't figure out where the whine comes from. The whine was pretty loud for awhile, but lately it changes in volume, sometimes it's loud, most of the time is just...

Just found this old thread of mine from over a year ago and realized i never updated what it turned out to be, which wasn't a fuse 27 issue... it was a faulty MAF sensor (%#^@%# sensors) Could've just unplugged it and drove it home instead of getting towed. I still haven't done the fuse...

I thought the same once too but turned out to be my lower ball joints... replaced those, and issue resolved.

Replaced the battery in my keyfob, still dead... Waiting to pick up the wife later and check her duplicate keyfob. Ran my scanner on the truck, don't have any (new) codes... Always somethin'...

yeah I was quoted 6k to fix jUSt my dissolved rusted rocker panels.... and that's from the smaller budget body shop. Yeah, that ain't happenin', I'll buy a different truck before I waste that kind of money to fix a modern vehicle.

My 2010 gets 9.7mpg in the city (I do drive it hard), and it did get 14mpg on long trips on the highway when I first got it 2 years ago, but lately it only eeks out 13.2mpg on the highway... I've never done a single thing to it since I got the truck (well, other than some basic maintenance...

idk, the GPS on my Raptor is as good as any GPS I've ever used... including the top GPS unit I used when I drove a cab for a short time, there's nothing about this Raptor's GPS that is inferior to anything else I've ever used. It may be that the GPS in my Nav is a higher/better option that what...

yeah, don't all Raptors have it? Yeah, it's always worked great, have had no issues with it at all... until this morning. It still works, well, other than the voice lying to me lol.

I picked up my 2010 used about two years ago, and the rocker panels on both sides are completely gone... and I don't mean just rusted, i mean rust has completely vaporized them. On the good side, you can't see it unless you crawl under the truck... but on the bad side, it's crept up to the...

Well this is a weird one... Was using my GPS and at first I thought I heard wrong, but the GPS voice said "LEFT" when it should've said 'RIGHT'. The map display was fine though. Then it did it again.... and a 3rd time as well (it's on a route I knew too....). Then when I got home, my keyfob all...

well, decided to change the gear lube even though I did it about 2 years ago... pulled the cover, and everything looked great, no obvious sign of any damage at all, ring gear, pinion, and spider gears look in surprisingly good shape for a truck that's over 200K miles. No obvious metal glitter...

broke some teeth? more like eviscerated your ring gear... holy crap you destroyed that

oh yeah, getting loud enough that I have to turn the radio up louder now.... at first it was just one of those, 'Where's the sound coming from?', and now it's like, 'Crap I hope this doesn't eat itself on the highway, I can't afford this at all right now and I even let my AAA membership...