New Guy, Hello.. Also small hiccup w/ less than 1k miles. Anyone else?

Popping in to say hello. I just picked up a gen2 a few weeks back. I had a gen1 for a short while as well. Never modded the gen1, however I plan on doing some things to the gen2, hence the forum trolling.

I took the truck out to have some fun in the mud the other day with a good friend of mine who wanted to get some good photos of it in it's rightful environment. I won't lie, I got on it pretty hard in the mud. Did plenty of slides and such at significant rpm. This gen2 is so much more fun than the gen1 for times like that. I can feel that boost mid donut and it was scary sometimes, lol.

Anyway, After a 5 min session of intense maneuvers in the mud and dirt. I park it and get out of the truck, leaving it running. It's in full force cool down mode, fans blasting. 2 mins later we hear a noise and we watch in horror as it ****** coolant out the bottom. We are a mile deep into some heavy offroad area and I get worried.

Long story short. I drive the truck home about 10 miles in limp mode, red heat gauge, pissing off many people along the way. Thinking I somehow already cracked something from running it "hard", what I consider acceptable Raptor abuse. Parked it and didn't touch it for 2 days. Myself and the truck had to cool down. I was pissed I broke it on it's maiden mud voyage!

Two days later I take the trusty FJ to autozone and buy some antifreeze to see if this thing is going to hold any of it so I can at least get it to the dealer. Nope, in one end and right out the other like White Castles. For the first time ever in all my warranty purchases, I used road-side and got a flatbed to take her to the dealer. Oh, and btw she was completely covered in dry mud, I thought the dealer would enjoy that. I'm not washing my broken truck in the drive way in 33 degree weather. I had it planned out to say I was doing some work in a really muddy area if any questions came about, lol.

Service called me next morning and said she was ready for pick up. The problem? Just a loose line due to what they think was an ill fitted spring clamp. I was banging it around pretty hard. That in combination with the massive amount of heat and pressure build up probably popped off an already loose clamp. I don't take responsibility though. Seems like poor design or hopefully just a fluke on my truck. Anyone else hear of such a thing happen yet? I know it's still so early for the gen2.



TL;DR - Hi everyone, took raptor mudding and broke off a coolant line due to possibly bad clamp. Truck is fun as hell though!

Low res pic from the same day as incident below and video of my old gen1

https://youtu.be/Ito9BJorpR0

I have not heard of this issue before for a gen 2, so I hope yours was the one exception. Odds are that if there was a loose clamp to begin with, you would have found the problem regardless of if you were in a mud pit or on a standard starbucks run..

Glad it was an easy fix, but I'd be more concerned with what driving you did on it while it was boiling hot. Hopefully no blown head gasket(s)! But even if a head gasket did blow, it should be covered under warranty since the supposed loose clamp was the culprit.

Can you point out which specific clamp was loose so that the rest of us who may want to can check ours?

Several have had the exact same issue. Either a bad or poorly tightened clamp. Under load it blows the hose off draining all coolant. Fortunately it's an easy fix.

Howdy and congrats. Sounds like an isolated issue, I've seen a few gen2's run hard without having that issue. Glad your taking it to its natural environment!!

ChevyChad said:

I have not heard of this issue before for a gen 2, so I hope yours was the one exception. Odds are that if there was a loose clamp to begin with, you would have found the problem regardless of if you were in a mud pit or on a standard starbucks run..

Glad it was an easy fix, but I'd be more concerned with what driving you did on it while it was boiling hot. Hopefully no blown head gasket(s)! But even if a head gasket did blow, it should be covered under warranty since the supposed loose clamp was the culprit.

Can you point out which specific clamp was loose so that the rest of us who may want to can check ours?

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Not a clue, I didnt even bother to ask the service guy. I was just relieved it was something so simple. As far as blowing a headgasket extremely unlikely lol. These new motors and new materials can handle plenty of heat and it dissipates so well. It's not like I continued to get on it heavy after the coolant was out. Hell the truck wouldn't let me do more than 5-10mph even if I wanted to.. I was just aircooled for a few miles like my old 911

Would be good to know where the hose came off, so others can check ahead of having this problem.

I was wondering who owned the truck Jeremy was photographing, nice and welcome!


There was a guy on the FRF Facebook group that likely had the same thing, failed clamp - new one installed and good to go.

welcome

Thanks for “taking one for the Raptor team”

I think we’ve seen these bust loose on some owners who weren’t even using them hard, we had one famously cut loose either on the ride home or shortly after pickup. I’d like to know what they fixed just to know what to look for and where.

Gen 1 guy here, but I'll tell you, the pressure fit clamps Ford uses are shit. I think they buy them from Ducati as I've had issues with both my Raptor coolant, PS and my Duc.

Hose Clamps, Fuses, and PS fluid are a Raptor owners best friends...

Welcome and I can understand "oh shit feeling".