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  1. TK421

    Tranmission Finally Got Me

    Mine was bone stock. Since owning it the transmission made grinding noises all year long. The dealership constantly said it was fine and they can’t find anything. I Replaced all the vacuum lines, replaced the hub actuators since they are known to loose vacuum and leak. Nothing helped. Even went...
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    How Long Can/Will Your Gen1 Last?

    My gen 1 13’ has been doing good. I drive the piss out of it. But after that whole transmission recall with the new software update months ago, they installed the wrong software and I had to go back after getting a letter from ford. Then shirt you after I had them service the trans as it was...
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    Raptor Wave

    I’ve thrown a peace sign a couple times if they are modded and I’m directly next to them so it’s not awkward if they see me checking out the truck and we make eye contact. There’s a ton of older rich guys who buy raptors just because they are nicer then standard f-150s but they arent raptor...
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    What' your average wait time for service at the dealership?

    My sun roof stopped working on my gen 1. A couple months ago. When you tried to open it it sounded like it wanted to break apart. Luckily I still have time on my extended warranty. Took them 2 weeks to get it fixed. First they had to order the parts which took a week. Then every time I called to...
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    Opinions on Forged Offroad shock rebuild

    Sorry not trying to bash you. You guys are highly liked by the community and have good rating and reviews. Just sharing my experience as this is what the thread was asking and bummed out about my shocks all leaking in such a short amount of easy street driving. And I recall reading something...
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    What did u do to your raptor today?

    Just finished mounting 4 new falken wildpeak a/t’s, 2 matching method rims and installed my alpha 1 tire rack in the bed and saved 2 of my old tires for spares. Looks sweet. Just ordered a fuse #27 relocation kit for my gen 1 a couple mins ago too
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    Opinions on Forged Offroad shock rebuild

    I like forged Offroad a lot. They make some cool parts no one else makes. But I wasn’t too happy with my exchange program. After only barley 20k of only street driving (kids are back in school and no time to Offroad) all my shocks were leaking fluid badly and the rear shock shaft came out of...
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    Mileage/Reliability/Durability Expectations on rebuilt shocks

    My truck was fairly stock. At 56k my shocks were leaking and not that great feeling. So I did the forged Offroad rebuild program. I paid for all the best options, upgraded seals, spherical mounts, tuned better etc. at about 20k miles later of mainly daily freeway driving the kids to school and...
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    Trans fluid change or not ?

    I did mine at 80k and it was super dark. I originally just dropped the pan and didn’t realize you can’t drain the TQ converter. So I was only able to drain and re-fill with 4qts and a new filter. I had a case of ford atf and took it to my buddy at the Lincoln dealership to use their flushing...
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    Make sure you do the Fuse 27 fix!!!

    I need to do this to my 13’ ASAP. Never really looked into this as I’m not super active on the forum. Just popped the fuse box open and previous owner or someone had stuck a random sized 20a fuse in the #27 slot that’s sticking out taller and awkward compared to the rest. I bought the kit on...
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    To buy or not to buy aExtended warranty for a high milage Gen1

    I bought *the best* factory extended warranty from ford for my 13’ that I got used. All the dealerships in SoCal don’t want to honor any of the issues I’ve had so I end up fixing it myself. Had the IWE issues multiple times with crazy grinding, the vacuum line cracked once causing the IWE to act...
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    What Programmer / Tune / Tuner??

    Anyone bought a handheld tuner from stage 3 with the preloaded tune? Which one would you recommend that’s safe. There’s the SCT with preloaded stuff. I’ve been wanting to get one, mainly to eliminate the speed limiter. Been running stock tune for a while and it’s been fine so not too worried...
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    New Dorman 600-405 IWE vacuum delete. Anyone try?

    Ya all the ford dealerships have denied my warranty for any front end issues because I put upper control arms on. So I’m over trying to have them fix stuff. Pretty much every issue I’ve had they try their hardest to not want to cover things so I wrench on it myself at work. I’ll just go ahead...
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    New Dorman 600-405 IWE vacuum delete. Anyone try?

    How do you like the RCV’s? I actually do have the RCV eliminators but haven’t installed them and are collecting dust on my tool box because work is so busy. I’m also waiting to get all new suspension befor I wanna take everything apart and do it all at once in 1 shot. The dormans looked...
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    New Dorman 600-405 IWE vacuum delete. Anyone try?

    Anyone get this yet? Im sick of fixing the stupid hub actuators in my gen 1. I just saw a recent youtube video pop up by dorman for their 4wd actuator but its an "OE fix solution" which is clearly the #1 problem with 4wd f-150s. It does basically the same thing as the RCV IWE delete kit but...
  16. TK421

    Raptor Community - Stock 2.5 shock rebuild exchange program.

    BEWARE if you do the shock exchange from forged off-road... Make sure you keep track of the refund. I wonder how many people forgot and never checked and forged kept their refund money. I totally forgot and checked and never got a refund I’ve been waiting for the refund for 3 months. I keep...
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    Oil Filter and Oil brands

    I buy my rotorcraft filters from 3 sources. Dealer, our shops local parts supplier here in socal (warren distributing) that stocks OEM motorcraft parts, and walmart. All 3 filters are packaged the same, same box, same filter in the box with the same graphics printed... So you're saying walmart...
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    What Programmer / Tune / Tuner??

    I bought a used 13' raptor. Only has a catback. It had some sorta tune (no tuner box came with the truck), and would not pass smog. for 3,500 miles the 02S. HO2S, and cat monitor wouldn't run. (in califiornia you can only have the evap monitor not ready) I read on here from others that the tune...
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    2014 Raptor Cant Pass Smog - O2/Heater/Catalyst won't activate?

    Another update. Ken Grody in Buena Park who sold me the truck, they cannot figure it out, and claims they do not know how to re-flash a computer to stock/reprogram a computer or check if it’s tuned....They called and said they will have to go to another shop (some performance shop he said) and...
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    2014 Raptor Cant Pass Smog - O2/Heater/Catalyst won't activate?

    Went back to ford, told them how others had the same issue passing smog with the same monitors never clearing because of a tune and that’s the only thing I could find why it won’t clear. (Feels like it’s tuned as it shifts different then other stock raptors, and similar to when I tuned my Chevy...
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    Oil Filter and Oil brands

    FL-820S Ford Motorcraft oil filter and mobil 1 5/20. You can buy both at walmart for cheaper then anywhere else.
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    2014 Raptor Cant Pass Smog - O2/Heater/Catalyst won't activate?

    I’m going threw this same ordeal as well in my 13’ I just bought from a dealer. Bought it, had low miles, “certified” and came with a super good warranty. I’ve been waiting forever for my plates in the mail and finally just got a letter in the mail (actually had to go to the post office and...
  23. TK421

    So cal runs

    I just picked up a clean used 13' Raptor. Mostly stock with some LEDs, wheels and tires. I do go to barstow a lot for shooting trips. (north side of Ft Irwin rd) Go shoot, then explore the area, screw off on the dry lake beds, theres some silty stuff that makes for really good photo ops, also a...
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