What did u do to your raptor today?

This arrived this morning and installed them tonight.

Finished the passenger side and got the brackets installed. These fenders are solid now, not coming off.
Also greased the Delta Joint in the ICON UCA’s. See you should do that every 3k miles.

RDFTS said:

Finished the passenger side and got the brackets installed. These fenders are solid now, not coming off.
Also greased the Delta Joint in the ICON UCA’s. See you should do that every 3k miles.

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Used rivets on those brackets?
might consider using a plate with small bolts, rivets have a habit working loose with vibration.

Up grades are looking good! New 37's? Ready for Matomi!!!

Can u explain what your doing here? Looks like stock fenders?

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Sano Dano said:

Used rivets on those brackets?
might consider using a plate with small bolts, rivets have a habit working loose with vibration.

Up grades are looking good! New 37's? Ready for Matomi!!!

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Factory brackets are done with rivets and they hold. I used 5mm (3/16”) ones. Guess we will see but its better than having nothing there as that already failed on my one trip to Baja last month.

Yep, put 37’s on back in December. Now did I get stuck in Matomi because of 35’s or a bad spotter or should have Stan been doing it, LOL?

5280_TIM said:

Can u explain what your doing here? Looks like stock fenders?

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These are Boatec fender that are 2” higher and 2” farther out. Helps when moving to 37” tires but even then I have had some rubbing with aggressive off-roading and stuffing them.

The boatec do not come with any brackets to hold the fender by the door or front. The shop that installed them did not move the factory brackets or supply something they could have made. They merely used the 3 bolts in the engine bay and the one small bolt at the very bottom by the rocker panel to hold these on. As you can imagine, that broke and didn’t last. The front by the headlight is held to the valance by just two self-tapers. I need to fab another bracket for the front so it can be held by the frame, like stock. More complicated bracket or drill out the rivets on my stock fender and grab it to reuse. Will see how it goes.

Stock fenders and their brackets.

Middle of door:


Top of door:


Front:

Removed blower motor and sprayed bottle of Motorcraft A/C Cooling Coil Coating (YN-29) using the A/C Odor Remover Flexible Applicator tool, very easy, and got rid of odor. Some coating dripped out the condensation drain, so I know that bit is not clogged. Cleaned the blower motor fins and inside the housing, very dirty. If you do this, be careful not to dislodge any of the small metal balance clips on the plastic blower blades.

There is a debris screen way up inside the blower motor housing assembly under the dash, need a mirror and light to see it, mine was covered in leaves/debris, so I blew some compressed air up there to move them off the screen. It looks like you have to take the windshield wiper arm off passenger side and remove all the plastic covers and shields to actually get down inside this area under the dash to remove the debris I saw on the protective screen, but no time to mess with that bit today.

Flushed the sunroof vent holes/tubes with rubbing alcohol using syringe and plastic tube, until it started dripping out on the ground underneath the truck. Removed scaly rust and paint along passenger side track and along driver's side front edge. Used Evapo-Rust Gel to remove rust, then coated with corrosionX HD, corrosion inhibitor penetrant. Treated the sunroof gasket and all door seals with Krytox GPL-205 multipurpose grease (great for rubber gaskets/seals). Added a little lube to the sunroof slide tracks/rails.

Did some welding

Details man. Details!! ^^^

I wish I would have taken a before photo but my engine bay was filthy. Easily the dirtiest engine bay I've ever owned, everything was coated in dirt. I had a detailer spend about an hour on it and he used CarPro Pearl for all the black trim and all the plastic/rubber in the engine bay. Blown away by the results. This is 1 week after he did it too