2024 Ranger Raptor-Will it need a leveling Kit

[GregFoutz]

do you have a post or a gallery of some sort showing before and after pictures of different angles? I’m debating if doing this too to mine.

we dont have a gallery to look at but there are several in our social media feeds you can find.

https://www.facebook.com/FoutzMotorsports

https://www.instagram.com/foutzmotorsports/

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[Yague]

All of this is true except for the leveling sensors.
Those sensors don’t look at ride height, they look at suspension travel speed. There is no calibration for them within the live valve components or in Forscan.

I clearly found a height sensor calibration on Foscan Lite and more than this, found a Ford Technical manual showing how to proceed the calibration.

 

[AlpineBike]

I clearly found a height sensor calibration on Foscan Lite and more than this, found a Ford Technical manual showing how to proceed the calibration.

Interesting!
My guess is that has to do with the Ford size of the electronics then and not the Fox side of things.

Fox does not utilize ride height sensors in their other Live Valve applications..

 

[JackpotRR]

do you have a post or a gallery of some sort showing before and after pictures of different angles? I’m debating if doing this too to mine.

I'll take some after pics today and post them later.....so far I'm loving the Ford Ranger Lifts .com front level/lift.....it looks great and seems to ride pretty much like factory...maybe a tiny bit more stiff but not really noticeable at all......not sure everyone seems so hyped on Perch collars versus a spacer??......this level/lift seems like a no brainer for MOST of us....I'm not into heavy off roading but maybe an occasional forest road and mountain snow

 

[JackpotRR]

do you have a post or a gallery of some sort showing before and after pictures of different angles? I’m debating if doing this too to mine.

finally got the 2" front level lift installed...looks great and drives/rides just like stock.....but I'm not into "heavy" off roading so I can just judge based on street driving......still has a slight rake which is exactly what I wanted!

here's what I bought and had installed.. https://fordrangerlifts.com/shop/ols/products/xn-2024-ranger-raptor-2-level-lift-eb2t-5348cc

my mechanic charged me $500 to install and that included a front end alignment.....seemed fair to me but what do I know?!

The pic under the "Santa Margarita Ford" sign is stock before the 2" level lift (It was the day I bought it)....the rest of the pics are from today (After the 2" level lift)

 

[Desertrunner21]

Did you take before and after measurements by chance?
Height wise

 

[JackpotRR]

Did you take before and after measurements by chance?
Height wise

sorry, but I didn't.....just texted Robbie at www.FordRangerLifts.com before I had it installed and he assured me it would leave a little bit of rake.....I used his front level/lift before for my previous 2021 Ranger Lariat Tremor so I knew what to expect.....my mechanic said the rears from the top of the tire to bottom of the fender wall measured 9 1/2" inches before he started.....that same measurement in the front is about 1/2-3/4" less

 

[Goldylox22]

The reason that the rear end of a Ranger sits higher than the front is due to it being designed to have a payload in the rear tub. The Rangers have around 80mm of rise to kerb from GVM depending on the model and this is so when its fully loaded the rear end does not look like its dragging on the ground, pretty common for this size pickup. If you Raise the front to make it look level unloaded at kerb, expect it to look like it's dragging its arse when loaded. Now if you then put airbags in the rear end to correct all this when its fully loaded, except at some time in the future to have ladder frame issues like cracking etc.. The whole rear end of the Ranger has been designed to take only loads from a leaf spring and the consent jounce bumper loads, airbags put a different load into the frame. Hence you would need to add extra structure into the frame to take those loads, like an extra crossmember where the airbags are. Have a look at a multi link beam axle suspension that has seperate spring/shock setup, they all have crossmembers in this region where the springs are located , and the Ranger does not. Anyone who fits strut spacers between the spring tower and the top mount of a front end of an IFS is asking for issues, it will cause the suspension to have more rebound travel then the front suspension geometry has been design for, and can result in half shaft / ball joint /tierod failures, take a good look under a Ranger before lifting as it has a variable reduced rack travel geometry like the Bronco. Don't understand what that is have a look and you will see two V shaped features on the kuckle and a small ball shaped feature on the LCA, this is the steering limiting feature and if the LCA ball feature goes beyond the V shape feature it returns to full rack travel. Only lift the front suspension using springs to increase ride height while maintaining wheel travels close to Factory travels or have a look at Bronco National and how they revise the spring seat to lift the Bronco's IFS while maintaining close to factory wheel travels.
Just for info I have over 30+ years of designing/concepting suspensions/chassis for a Global OME and I can tell you I have seen pretty much everything stupid that an aftermarket person can do. Just because you can do it ,doesn't mean you should. Want to understand the limits of your factory suspension's go back to basic's and understand the geometry limits first and then look at the possible impacts it can have when you change things from all aspects of the vehicle. If you don't agree with the above, that fine, not on here to argue, just on here to share my knowledge as I'm retired now and T6 was just 1 of the platforms I worked on.

If I have no intention of loading the bed to the max capacity and would like to add maybe a 1"-2" lift to the front via shock tower spacer is there any extreme concerns to the function mainly when taking the vehicle offroad? I understand thats a very specific question but you're clearly very knowledgeable on the subject!

 

[3231haven]

If I have no intention of loading the bed to the max capacity and would like to add maybe a 1"-2" lift to the front via shock tower spacer is there any extreme concerns to the function mainly when taking the vehicle offroad? I understand thats a very specific question but you're clearly very knowledgeable on the subject!

Given I worked on the design of T6 platform before retiring, I would recommend not to fit strut spacers to any IFS regardless of vehicle brand, as you are better to do it with just the springs or the method of spacing the lower spring seat up with a collar, that way you still maintain the factory wheel travels defined by the shock absorber lengths. If you do it by using a strut spacer, all it does is move the total wheel travel down which basically increases the rebound travel that the suspension sees, by the spacer amount ratio, impacting half shaft joint angles and other ball joint angles which can lead to this items failing when off-roading. The Ranger IFS is like the F150 IFS in that it has a variable rack travel at full lock defined by stops on the LCA and a tapered feature on the knuckle. Going beyond these features in vertical travel will result in the suspension being able to return to full rack travel and then its a case of what breaks first, more than likely the outer tierod, then half shafts, ball joints and so on.
By all means fit Strut spacers to front beam axles or multi link rear beam axles, but in my opinion not IFS, my vehicle is done with springs. Also just be aware if you just raise the front, when you place a load in the pickup box at some point or tow with it, the rear end will look like its dragging its arse on the ground. A Raptor has less rise to kerb then a standard leaf rear end, think its about 60mm if I remember correctly.
Hope that helps

 

[galion]

It’s not my intention to spark a debate, but the engineering seems quite simple: to maintain the performance of Internal Bypass shocks, the piston must remain in the same position as stock, which doesn’t happen with a perch lift or springs, as they lower the travel by the same amount as the lift. This affects performance due to the loss of down travel and also impacts ride comfort because of spring compression. In my case, I opted for a 1” lift using a 15mm front strut spacer. While the suspension geometry is slightly altered, which isn’t ideal, the impact is negligible due to the spacer’s thickness. My truck looks almost leveled, and the ride feels exactly the same as before.

 

[unixadm]

I like the approach above and that's what I am going to do.

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