DTE with the Long Range America 35 gallon fuel tank (500+ miles range now)

[superj]

Exitoffroad.com has a 35 gallon direct swap tank. Using forscan can recalibrate the tank fuel sending unit.

Curious if anyone has installed and experiences.

Someone was asking abt still refueling at 1/4 tank remaining. Fwiw, Ford mechanics i know recommend not letting your tank get low regularly as the fuel is also the lubricant for the pump. If you're starving it or using cheap gas, expect reduced life from it.

thats how all in tank pumps are. for sure, its not good to run it to the reserve fuel level. i try to fill up at 1/4 left just in case there are no stations in the next 1/4 tank worth of driving though

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[mAtTyG04]

I was under the impression from other readings on these tanks in other places that the DTE doesn't work when its full but when the amount of fuel get to the OEM amount it starts to work? Example: Stock tank full DTE is 300 miles. 35 gallon tank full will show 300 miles but when you get to 3/4 of a tank it will be accurate (225 miles) and continue to be accurate until empty. Essentially it does read the additional fuel in the 35 gallon tank. Reading this thread tells me otherwise though.

 

[Raptor Family]

Problem Solved. 2025 Ranger Raptor with 35 gallon tank upgrade—Could not adjust tank capacity in IPC (instrument Panel Cluster—or Dash Module) using FORSCAN. Since the 2025 model year of the US built Ranger Raptor, Ford has changed the location of the fuel tank capacity data to the ECM—worldwide trucks made in Thailand can still be changed with Forscan in the IPC (in Australia, a larger fuel tank is a dealer installed option from ARB). The change of fuel data sent to ECM is similar to other Ford trucks of various years and models of F150s and Super Duties can’t change their capacities either. These vehicles have to have their ECMs programmed to make the change. Companies have been trying to fix this for quite some time. S&B (who make the 60plus gallon tanks for Super Duties and various other tanks) has tried intercept modules to lie to the computer, and just recently they teamed up with a company called EzLynk who makes a programmer —just like the kind you would use to tune your engine, but they use it to re-program your fuel tank capacity. They have only hacked a few years and models of trucks—not the Ranger Raptor yet. I sent them a message months ago asking about doing our trucks—they never answered back. My ford dealer was clueless, the Raptor shop I use, does the Forscan tank adjustment on other trucks, but knows which ones cannot be done.
I dropped my truck off at my Tuner/Dyno shop (Cody Cutforth from Stanghi) early December—I just got it back last Friday. Yeah, that’s a long time—my truck had a lot of other development/tuning work done besides the fuel tank programming.
Now, the distance to empty and the fuel gauge work flawless—just like original (only now, it reads the full capacity and displays correctly 565 miles to empty on 93 octane, and 363 miles to empty on e85 ethanol).
This is a service he is now offering either separately or combined with an engine tune/dyno. If you are in the greater Dallas, TX area, I would just go and visit his shop—call first (he is busy, I mean real busy—leave a message and he will call back). If you are not local, he can do this and tune over the air as well.
For those of you considering installing the 35 gallon tank and are kind of sitting on the fence—having your gauges work perfectly should push you over. I absolutely love the added range of my tank on gasoline (565miles)—factory 20.3 gallon tank was only (287miles). What is really important to me now, is ethanol. My truck is modified and tuned to run e85, and if I did not change the tank, I would get less than 200miles—I think my actual calculation was about 185miles per tank. Now, on e85, I get 363miles which is even more than it was factory on gasoline.
If this is something you are considering, google Stanghi and get Cody’s contact info. If you want, find his Instagram account under the same name (Stanghi—kind of funny name, but he began specializing in Mustangs—and now is the ecoboost expert on Ford trucks) watch video reels of thousands and thousands of vehicles he has dyno tuned over 15 years. My current dyno as of today, isn’t up yet on his reels, but my Ranger Raptor from last October is there on the Dyno—about 15 videos down, the picture to click is of my engine with all the Red Charge/Crossover pipes, Dyno charts and video of my Victory Blue RR at speed on its final Dyno run—that’s the old hp—I think we’ve added 100hp since then and will soon be posted.

 

[Rap406]

Hallelujah! Thank you for reporting back on this. My LRA tank is set to arrive in June and I will absolutely do an over the air tune with Cody. Good work!

 

[donkey]

To add, you will need an MPVI4 for him to do this work if you are not going into his shop.

 

[SurfRanger]

Problem Solved. 2025 Ranger Raptor with 35 gallon tank upgrade—Could not adjust tank capacity in IPC (instrument Panel Cluster—or Dash Module) using FORSCAN. Since the 2025 model year of the US built Ranger Raptor, Ford has changed the location of the fuel tank capacity data to the ECM—worldwide trucks made in Thailand can still be changed with Forscan in the IPC (in Australia, a larger fuel tank is a dealer installed option from ARB). The change of fuel data sent to ECM is similar to other Ford trucks of various years and models of F150s and Super Duties can’t change their capacities either. These vehicles have to have their ECMs programmed to make the change. Companies have been trying to fix this for quite some time. S&B (who make the 60plus gallon tanks for Super Duties and various other tanks) has tried intercept modules to lie to the computer, and just recently they teamed up with a company called EzLynk who makes a programmer —just like the kind you would use to tune your engine, but they use it to re-program your fuel tank capacity. They have only hacked a few years and models of trucks—not the Ranger Raptor yet. I sent them a message months ago asking about doing our trucks—they never answered back. My ford dealer was clueless, the Raptor shop I use, does the Forscan tank adjustment on other trucks, but knows which ones cannot be done.
I dropped my truck off at my Tuner/Dyno shop (Cody Cutforth from Stanghi) early December—I just got it back last Friday. Yeah, that’s a long time—my truck had a lot of other development/tuning work done besides the fuel tank programming.
Now, the distance to empty and the fuel gauge work flawless—just like original (only now, it reads the full capacity and displays correctly 565 miles to empty on 93 octane, and 363 miles to empty on e85 ethanol).
This is a service he is now offering either separately or combined with an engine tune/dyno. If you are in the greater Dallas, TX area, I would just go and visit his shop—call first (he is busy, I mean real busy—leave a message and he will call back). If you are not local, he can do this and tune over the air as well.
For those of you considering installing the 35 gallon tank and are kind of sitting on the fence—having your gauges work perfectly should push you over. I absolutely love the added range of my tank on gasoline (565miles)—factory 20.3 gallon tank was only (287miles). What is really important to me now, is ethanol. My truck is modified and tuned to run e85, and if I did not change the tank, I would get less than 200miles—I think my actual calculation was about 185miles per tank. Now, on e85, I get 363miles which is even more than it was factory on gasoline.
If this is something you are considering, google Stanghi and get Cody’s contact info. If you want, find his Instagram account under the same name (Stanghi—kind of funny name, but he began specializing in Mustangs—and now is the ecoboost expert on Ford trucks) watch video reels of thousands and thousands of vehicles he has dyno tuned over 15 years. My current dyno as of today, isn’t up yet on his reels, but my Ranger Raptor from last October is there on the Dyno—about 15 videos down, the picture to click is of my engine with all the Red Charge/Crossover pipes, Dyno charts and video of my Victory Blue RR at speed on its final Dyno run—that’s the old hp—I think we’ve added 100hp since then and will soon be posted.

The hero we needed. Thank you! Hahaha

i wonder if he would be willing to ship out the MPVI4 for a cost and rebate it when shipped back or something like that for people who just want this done remotely. Otherwise i guess we could do this amongst ourselves too. I just dont have any other usecase for a $400 tuner

 

[HighDesertRanger]

Awesome to hear! Now LRA just needs to release the one for the non-Raptor trucks....

 

[Raptor Family]

Awesome to hear! Now LRA just needs to release the one for the non-Raptor trucks....

You are not the first person that has said that. I saw a few people buy Australian spec tanks in Canada. I didn’t know they would fit, I was told our frames were slightly different and they wouldn’t fit. I heard they bought them, not if they are installed yet. Either way, only the Long Range America tank is Dot approved for our trucks. I checked the 3 manufacturers in Australia; Long Ranger, Brown Davis, and ARB. The only non-Raptor tank any of them make is for a V6 diesel. There is a bed mounted tank they have listed though

 

[Raptor Family]

Hallelujah! Thank you for reporting back on this. My LRA tank is set to arrive in June and I will absolutely do an over the air tune with Cody. Good work!

Cody did the all work, I just left him my truck for a few months to do the development work and get my new fuel system tuned and dynoed. I got my truck back with a 91 octane tune (for when I’m in Baja and can’t get 93), a 93 tune for winter and cross country, and an e85 tune for when I’m local and have access to it. He put all the tunes on HP tuner’s Tune Delivery Network (TDN) in my account he set up for me. He figured out how to do it, and then programmed my fuel tank capacity, and everything works perfectly Level, Distance to empty, and mileage. What I am still amazed about is that I can switch tunes back and forth using my cell phone and plug-in tuner.

 

[cc1999]

So if I get one of these tanks installed.
I need to plan to buy a $400 tuning device and it comes plug and play or how does the tuning process work?

 

[donkey]

So if I get one of these tanks installed.
I need to plan to buy a $400 tuning device and it comes plug and play or how does the tuning process work?

Find someone local with that device you can use, or buy it yourself.

Then have the guy remote in to your laptop while it’s connected to your truck to make the adjustment to the tank for you.

 

[cc1999]

Find someone local with that device you can use, or buy it yourself.

Then have the guy remote in to your laptop while it’s connected to your truck to make the adjustment to the tank for you.

Is the device needed then good for multiple trucks, or is there additional licensing needing purchased for each vin number it gets used on?

I am not really familiar with the various different programming devises out there.

 

[donkey]

Is the device needed then good for multiple trucks, or is there additional licensing needing purchased for each vin number it gets used on?

I am not really familiar with the various different programming devises out there.

One device can be used for an unlimited amount of trucks. Think of it moreso as an OBD2 connector (since that’s what it is). It’s just the tool.

 

[cc1999]

One device can be used for an unlimited amount of trucks. Think of it moreso as an OBD2 connector (since that’s what it is). It’s just the tool.

Thanks !

I think I found a website for the shop doing this work.
https://www.stanghi.com/

The post above is calling the device needed EzLynk.
‘I am not seeing that device offered on the Shanghi website.

I did find a website for the ezlynk product.
https://www.ezlynk.com/

Was thinking if Stanghi sold the EzLynk they could ship them with fuel tank programing already loaded on the device. If it worked like that . Not sure how it works.

 

[Raptor Family]

Thanks !

I think I found a website for the shop doing this work.
https://www.stanghi.com/

The post above is calling the device needed EzLynk.
‘I am not seeing that device offered on the Shanghi website.

I did find a website for the ezlynk product.
https://www.ezlynk.com/

Was thinking if Stanghi sold the EzLynk they could ship them with fuel tank programing already loaded on the device. If it worked like that . Not sure how it works.

I’m sorry if I didn’t post all links in my original post. I listed the company name and enough info so that a person could find it if they really wanted to. I didn’t want to make it seem like I was pushing “my tuner” on anybody. It seems people are polarized with their tuners—almost like political parties. They each have their followers and fiefdoms. I just wanted to get the info out there. Every time fuel tank calibration discussions had came up in the past, someone without a clue to the problem always poisoned-pilled the topic.
I am not the expert at this, but I think I’m the first 2025 that has had it done. I research this for months and reported what I knew. I gave the info on EzLynk, because they were the first company that I think made it possible to do, and did it for S&B. I don’t know for sure, go look in their website, and see what their core mission is.
They are a PID development company—they sell specific modeled data to other companies or tuners to modify all the factory hidden or locked programs.

What they do for S&B is, I think is proprietary software (S&B paid for it), if you bought a tank from S&B, the use of the software was free, but the actual program device is proprietary to EzLynk. It’s free if you purchased a S&B tank, you pay a fee if it was another brand and have to return the device to EzLynk. I do not know if the program is actually stored on their device, or it has to be retrieved from an online account—but, from how I thought I understood it, it was in the device. Everything above is just conjecture as I have a lot of assumptions.

In my case, Cody somehow figured it out, he may have used a 3rd party development company, or he may have done it himself, I don’t know —and I didn’t ask, because even if it was, now—I believe it is proprietary.

I use HP tuners. I have an account on HP Tuner’s Tune Delivery Network (TDN). When a tune, or a program change like this is made for my truck, the tuner puts it in my account linked to that vehicle only (seems kind of like a big file for me on the cloud). When I want to install the tune, I link my cellphone to the HP Tuner’s MPIV4 device (what everybody calls the tuner), with it plugged into my diagnostic port on the truck, and download the file to my truck. The program/tune is never stored in the device—the device it is only the communications “modem” to get the tune/program downloaded from the TDN, and off my phone into my truck’s ECM/PCM.

Having the MPIV4 device come pre-loaded as suggested, I already know doesn’t work that way. Your vehicle, your account, and the device all have to validate a handshake with each other to work. And, like I mentioned earlier, the tuning device, is just an empty vessel that bridges the devices—it doesn’t work by itself.
Can you borrow someone else’s tuner? I am pretty sure it can be done because it almost happened to me. I had an installer willing to help me tune my truck. I went to the tuner to buy the tune and the device. They were out of stock. It was such a tight fuse with little time to plan. The tuner came up with a plan with a way of re-registering, putting my tune in his account—or something weird like that which neither of us liked.

I under stand people not wanting to fork over $350 for an HP tuning device. For them, I would say just wait. Like always is the case, once something gets cracked, everybody does it. In a couple of months from now everybody will know how to do it and different options will probably (maybe even EzLynk) may become available.
But, if you are like me, those gauges reading incorrectly drove me nuts—I paid the money—and don’t tell Cody, I would have paid a lot more. For now, I think this is the only way.

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