For a perspective I have the Ford bed mat and depending on how you tighten the brackets the mat can be removed from under the bridge although it does take more effort. The bridge is not water tight at all from what I can see.
I'd think they'd go for a good tight 3mm uniform across the board to match "modern" standards, would be interesting though to know what optimal and variation numbers are.
Some quick research did show that spray liner thickness(which would be times 2) could be anywhere between 1.5mm and 6mm thickness, giving 3mm-12mm total across the opening width. On the face that seems like quite some potential variation to factor in if that information is accurate! Of course...
Totally, keep us updated and I'm hoping you can get it sorted and installed properly. As an aside and not that it's a thing, but the only thing I could have done in that situation if I was forced to work with that as is, is cut an equal length off both pins and then cut/saw another flat head...
I get the stop looking thing but just look at it's atrocious. It's not agricultural heavy equipment, Ford can do better, it would be difficult to not see that each and every time someone approaches the vehicle to enter. Here is the best angle I could find of a promotional photo which could be...
Thanks for the follow up. Im curious if you removed both dowel pins and measured/compared them to each other and/or measured the bridge width alone. Not that you should need to do that yourself but would be interesting to compare that against either another one or the specifications. I mentioned...
Thanks Mike, I was curious since the trans is I believe identical between trims/years that the housing adapter could be universal between the kit variants, and from what you shared that looks to be accurate
Mike, How many of the individual components in the initial kit would be compatible across the subsequent variations? Was curious about which components are cross compatible in theory. Thanks -I know you mentioned the upper bracket being unique to the 2.3l and wasn't sure if the my24 2.3l upper...
All this proprietary stuff is a bear to deal with, did anyone see the quite sophisticated mounting system arrangement Ford showed a prototype version of at Sema? Looks to be a partnership with "Gridrack"? Wild stuff, looks pretty clunky and chunky but thought it was interesting, sorry if this...