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I like! You've got a sharp looking truck and the lift looks just right. Nice professional installation on the carrier drop bracket too. Truck run nice and smooth / quiet now?
I like! You've got a sharp looking truck and the lift looks just right. Nice professional installation on the carrier drop bracket too. Truck run nice and smooth / quiet now?
Brian
Yea, truck runs smooth and quiet. Now I need exhaust to get rid of that quiet part. Thanks, I'm very happy with how it turned out too.
I would definitely give a lot of thought to what changed as a part of the lift job, e.g. angles on drive lines - the angle that universal joints must work with now. But virtually anything from the tranny / transfer case on back could be involved if the stress or load changed for the worse - the change may just be exposing a weakness that you already had in the power train. Are there any changes in the sound as you run it in different gears? In and out of 4 wheel drive? Is the sound obvious enough to point to a particular region of the vehicle ... front (motor area), mid (tranny area, front end of drive line) or the rear (rear end of drive line and rear differential)? How about if you open the rear window on the cab ... any more clues from the sound if you do that? Did you put larger diameter tires on the truck at the same time you did the lift? Larger tires have more leverage over the drive train and require higher torque to turn ... which in turn (pardon the pun) places a higher stress on the whole drive train. I wonder if there's a rack in town somewhere where you can run the truck on rollers while someone outside the truck does the listening and looking. What I'd look for is a place that does speedometer calibrations. The kind of shop you don't know about until you put oversize tires on your truck so that the speedo reads too slow and the local po-po pulls you over. Again ... don't ask me how I found out about that LOL! Those shops will put your truck on a roller rack and run it at fixed speeds, look at your speedometer, and figure out a transducer gear ratio to put between the tranny and speedometer cable to get your speedometer accurate.... BUT maybe a shop like that would help you trouble shoot your issues if they only occur at certain speeds.. dunno, just thinking out loud here.
When you get it figured out, and you will, please share what you find here and what the fix is or was. Others will have the same issues too and glad to read your story...
Brian
hello I'm having the same problem I belive, we have a 2017 f250 on a rbp 14 inch max altitude lift. and we hear a grinding noise when decelerating we have been searching for answers and just getting the run around. What shop did you call.
hello I'm having the same problem I belive, we have a 2017 f250 on a rbp 14 inch max altitude lift. and we hear a grinding noise when decelerating we have been searching for answers and just getting the run around. What shop did you call.
So I consulted Google and one of my local lift shops. They asked if I modified anything with the drive shaft. I said no and there was the awkward moment of silence and I said, "Got it. It's somethin with the drive shaft, do y'all have that part?" No. So I called the other shop and they had it and gave me military discount. Worked out perfect. Worth a shot. 🤷♂️🤔
So I consulted Google and one of my local lift shops. They asked if I modified anything with the drive shaft. I said no and there was the awkward moment of silence and I said, "Got it. It's somethin with the drive shaft, do y'all have that part?" No. So I called the other shop and they had it and gave me military discount. Worked out perfect. Worth a shot. 🤷♂️🤔
Brad Wissinger, our lift shop removed our custom driveshaft while on a high lift, and ran it and the noise is still there, I thought it was the drive shaft too but now we are playing an expensive game of the process of eliminating 🤞 but thanks anyways I'm sure well have to look farther into this.
