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  1. ratty

    SCARY "almost" no start...

    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...
  2. ratty

    Fuel gauge inaccurate

    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...
  3. ratty

    how are your 9.75 rears doing?

    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...
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    and it just died on the highway... thinking fuel pump, or that notorious fuel pump driver module

    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...
  5. ratty

    Clunking sound in front end at low speeds when turning steering wheel

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

    wth.... is my computer taking a dump?

    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'...
  7. ratty

    Rocker Rust 2023

    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.
  8. ratty

    To those considering a first generation raptor

    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...
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    wth.... is my computer taking a dump?

    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...
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    wth.... is my computer taking a dump?

    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.
  11. ratty

    Rocker Rust 2023

    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...
  12. ratty

    wth.... is my computer taking a dump?

    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...
  13. ratty

    how are your 9.75 rears doing?

    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...
  14. ratty

    how are your 9.75 rears doing?

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

    how are your 9.75 rears doing?

    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...
  16. ratty

    how are your 9.75 rears doing?

    just turned over 200K on my mostly well running 2010, and have a new job that's a 150 mile commute every day, and once I realized where it was coming from, I've had an ever increasing in loudness whine coming out of my rear end. Crawled under after one of my long commutes, and figured it was...
  17. ratty

    Can't find a replacement front sway bar!

    thanks... I'll let you know if I change my mind and am forced to buy used. Shipping is pricey though being so huge and heavy.
  18. ratty

    Can't find a replacement front sway bar!

    highway is fine, daily driving is fine... but driving it hard and fast through the twisties is where it gets quite sketchy without the sway bar. And I pull a ig open trailer with a race car on it, so I could use all the stability I can get.
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    Can't find a replacement front sway bar!

    yeah, if my truck was a fun weekend off-road machine and I liked to rock crawl... but it's just my daily driver. And yeah, it drives pretty well without the sway bar, until I have fun in the tight twisties driving it hard, then she's swaying all over the place. What I really need the sway bar...
  20. ratty

    Can't find a replacement front sway bar!

    yeah, can't go with the text info either as well as by the pictures, unless it's an actual photo... as I ordered my bar that specifically said it was correct for my Raptor (which it wasn't). Thanks for the info.
  21. ratty

    Can't find a replacement front sway bar!

    this is what the correct sway bar ends (and end links) looks like....
  22. ratty

    Can't find a replacement front sway bar!

    yeah thanks, but that won't fit either... That's a non-Gen1-Raptor F-150-only bar. The Raptor sway bar is noticeably different at (roughly) a 55 degree angle at the ends, leaving the end-link ends flat/parallel to the ground. The correct end-links are twice as long with a 90 degree at the...
  23. ratty

    Can't find a replacement front sway bar!

    My original stock front sway bar decided to become a two-piece bar, so I tossed the useless chunk of metal, er, metals... and went to my usual source for everything aftermarket, ordered the only one they had, a Hellwig #7704 sway bar that sUppOSedLy fits my Raptor... But NOPE, it likely fits a...
  24. ratty

    and it just died on the highway... thinking fuel pump, or that notorious fuel pump driver module

    of course the only other car in my house, the wife's car... is in the shop too... of course. Anyway, I hear on F-150's the fuel pump driver module, located right above the spare under the pickup bed, are known problems. But the one's I've seen are the half metal ones that corrode really badly...
  25. ratty

    picked up a used 2010 supercab 5.4....

    ok, so according to my manual, there is no 'Street Sport' mode, at least not for my particular Raptor. There is the Off-Road mode (obviously), which delays upshifts, and when using Off-Road mode and selecting the AdvanceTrac mode (by pressing the button once), that's the only reference to a...
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