What did you do to your 2019 and up Ranger today?

[Robertmangrum.rm]

Oh.


Shrockworks is indeed out of business, too. They screwed over a lot of people.

Yeah I know a few personally. I wanted their stubby bumper kit but waited too long.

 

[Blmpkn]

Tried to do a padslap on the rear today, just ended up getting right pissed.

Couldn't get the piston to compress. Absolutely will NOT spin clockwise. The apex of my "shitty day and way too late to be dealing with this" rage come about when THIS happened

What's the G.D secret to getting these rear pistons to compress? I know I must be missing something stupid and I'm probably getting pissed for no reason... I even cracked the bleeder to see If that would help... nope... just made a mess.

 

[Blmpkn]

Ok so from what I'm being told, the drivers side pistons on the new trucks depress counter-clockwise, and the passengers side clockwise.. apparently.

This makes the harbor freight kit i have 100% useless for the drivers side of the vehicle as it will only depress a piston if it's wound clockwise. Stupid. Looks like I'll have to be off to find the type that goes on the end of a ratchet tomorrow morning and hopefully get the pads changed before it starts to rain.

 

[Roert42]

I have one of those ones that go on the end of a ratchet, slap it in a cordless drill and zip ‘er right in.

 

[sgtsandman]

Ok so from what I'm being told, the drivers side pistons on the new trucks depress counter-clockwise, and the passengers side clockwise.. apparently.

This makes the harbor freight kit i have 100% useless for the drivers side of the vehicle as it will only depress a piston if it's wound clockwise. Stupid. Looks like I'll have to be off to find the type that goes on the end of a ratchet tomorrow morning and hopefully get the pads changed before it starts to rain.

You are correct. The kit I have has an adaptor for each side. I think they might even be marked for which side they go to but if they don’t, it doesn’t take much to figure out you have the wrong one.

 

[Blmpkn]

Alright, gonna make those pistons my beetches today. Day off work. Up nice and early. Actually ate breakfast too! Weeeoooooo

 

[Blmpkn]

I finally finished right at noon, used the cube tool. Complete nightmare trying to get enough pressure on the pistons with the damn calipers mounted in the truck... needed to crack the bleeders pretty much wide open before they would budge. Honeymoon phase finally over after a little over 2 years

The weather has been nice so I havnt started to find the source of my occasionally wet headliner.. but some sort of precipitation is supposed to be coming this weekend so that mission will start tomorrow. Aquired some fancy black goop that my buddy swears by, hoping it's just the 3rd brakelight. Really don't have the time or money for anything else right now.

 

[JohnnyO]

Facebook Memories telling me that it was two years ago today that I got my truck.

 

[Blmpkn]

Something is amiss with my truck I think..

The brakes were making noise out back, replaced the pads last week. Passenger side inside pad was down to the squeaker, but the rotors were fine to re-use. No gouges or scrapes or anything.. just the usual little lip from the edge of the pads. Hell.. now that I think about it.. they weren't even worn enough to start grinding like they were..

Didn't listen to the radio on the way home from work today and noticed the truck still sounds like complete ass it SOUNDS like the brakes are grinding themselves into oblivion.. I have a really hard time believing it's the brakes though.. below is why..

Right before winter I did a pad slap for someone who's brakes sounded like a rock crusher, and who's rotors very much looked like the rings of a tree.. only the grooves were much deeper lol. The pads I put on actually wore out last week and started to grind again.. that's how bad the rotors are.. Smoked the pads in probably less than 5k miles lol. Anyways... after I put the pads on those horrendus rotors, everything was nice and silent.

The grinding I'm hearing is most prevalent up to 40mph or so.. after that it gets mostly drowned out by tires/wind noise. I noticed that suspension travel increases the "aggressiveness" of the noise, as does acceleration. When hitting any sort of depression in the road and the suspension is compressing.. or even slowly accelerating, it sounds like the grinding gets quicker. When the suspension starts to extend again.. or I let off the gas.. the grinding sounds slower and less aggressive.

There's been a few folks who have had early failures of the center bearing on the driveshaft.. but this noise doesn't match up to my prior experience with shot center bearings.. theres no whirring or squeaking.. just awful grinding. Seemed tight enough when I crawled underneath and reefed on it too..

Few more folks have had trouble with bearings In their axles and got whole new assemblys from ford..

The only symptom I'm having is the grinding. No shudders or clunking or anything else.. rear end seems tight enough.. at a loss for the moment. I don't like the idea of putting the rear on jackstands in drive.. id much rather do that on a lift but I don't have the time to get it on a lift right now.

 

[Roert42]

Two things.
Calipers dragging?

I’ve had trucks sat on stands while in drive, wouldn’t hesitate to do it again. I also had a concrete pad to do it on. Axe stands under the tubes.

 

[Blmpkn]

Two things.
Calipers dragging?

I’ve had trucks sat on stands while in drive, wouldn’t hesitate to do it again. I also had a concrete pad to do it on. Axe stands under the tubes.

I don't believe they're dragging, no. Although the pistons WERE a complete PITA to depress, they spun&depressed smoothly so its not like they're starting to sieze or anything.

That's my issue.. I have a soggy early mud-season yard/driveway right now. I could load up my jack & stands and do it in the work parking lot though I suppose.

 

[Roert42]

did you feel your wheel hub after driving it?

 

[Blmpkn]

did you feel your wheel hub after driving it?

Just drove across town.. when I parked the truck the rear rotors were cool to the touch.

 

[sgtsandman]

I could be an axle bearing. Did you do any water crossings while wheeling? Water could have gotten into the axle and things are rusting.

If not, it might be time to take advantage of the warranty and have the dealer look at it.

 

[Blmpkn]

I could be an axle bearing. Did you do any water crossings while wheeling? Water could have gotten into the axle and things are rusting.

If not, it might be time to take advantage of the warranty and have the dealer look at it.

I've driven through literal puddles, and that's about it.

I brought my jackstands to work. Gonna put er up at the end of the day and see if I can get a better idea where this racket is coming from.