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Damn. That's some great hardware.

I forgot to measure those things, now that I see the thread again. I haven't had to crawl into the bed or put anything heavy on the tailgate, so it slipped my mind. 🤣 I'll see about having a look, soon. If one of those cables isn't longer, I'm the Queen of England.

It's an intelligence test, and I don't want to spoil the ending for you. I'm rooting for you!

If the guy who hit my Rover didn't have airbags, they'd have been picking his teeth out of the radiator.

It's almost always better to tailor your own, but you're going to end up buying the same components as a prepackaged solution, for the most part, and tailoring the rest to your use case. That being the case, I'd suggest buying one and then tailoring the components to suit your needs. Adventure...

That's probably the most sanitary website I've ever seen linked, on this forum. Everything else has set my tracker and ad blockers on fire. People in this industry need to get off their tails and clean up their sites, because I won't give them the first red penny if they're foolish enough to...

That's the process everyone should go through when changing tires and/or wheels, but few do. If you can't tuck them and crank to full lock, they don't fit properly. Them's the rules.

Your tire pressure should match what's printed in the door label. Anything higher is a shipping issue or dealership error. I've found most dealerships don't check pressures on tires when the vehicles hit the lot, and nearly everything I've test driven was grossly over-pressurized.

Truth. I hate ass-draggers. Nobody new gets in any of my cars without being told to lift themselves over the bolsters or hit the gym until they can.

My rule: Don't buy a luxury if you can't write a check for two of them at once. That said, one must get the stupid out of his system early, in life. Later, it becomes less possible. 🤣

I realize some don't see the value in extended warranties, but this is 2025, and you can't fix it all anymore. Indeed, the very things you can't fix are the same things the dealership will take hours to not figure out. Ford's normal factory warranty is five minutes of peanuts, and these...

Did I do this right?

I hated every picture of the interior I saw (it looked like a cheap PC gaming peripheral from 2007 fitted with gaming chairs from 2015), and I despise orange with a passion. Hell, I don't even like red. When I actually got inside the one I bought, however, I was well pleased with the interior...

That Watt's linkage is what sold me on the Raptor. It's a night and day difference in how a solid axle vehicle is planted in turns on non-ideal surfaces, and just turns in general; and especially useful on washboard. It completely eliminates standard issue pickup truck skittishness. The...

A Porsche will impress some dudes. A Raptor will impress some old dudes. My Jag will get you laid. Jag wins.

It is best practice to install springs that bring the front of the vehicle back to it's previous ride height, as well as to compensate for the increased mass when in motion. Such springs may not yet be available off the shelf for these trucks, but you can have springs custom wound.

They look cool, but it's just one more thing to wax around, in my opinion; unless they're good enough to handle it these days. At least they're not matte. I've been waxing around that for years on my Discovery hood blackout, and it's always been annoying.

There's an ambient air temperature sensor in the passenger side door mirror, if I recall correctly. Mine went bad, and the climate control started blowing hot and it gave me a check engine light.

Solar loading can cause automotive temperature displays to always report a little higher than ambient.

I haven't seen this level of work in years. Very cool.