Meet The F-550 Ford Raptor: When You Need To Tow REALLY Heavy Off-Road! 

Actually the way that he said that is misleading. It’s a total of 8 inches 4negative and 4 positive. We have them in all the ambulances where I work, most all ambulances new ones have this type of suspension. When you open the back doors it drops the truck 4 inches when you close the doors it goes to normal right height and if you want you could raise it up 4 inches. You would never drive it in the minus 4 setting, That’s for unloading the stretcher out of the back of a truck so when that is in -4 literally does not have a suspension, if you try to drive it like that it would knock your teeth out.

Those trucks are beautiful

We will test these trucks properly very soon - in Colorado!

@@TFLtruck 🙌🏽……..😁

Try Sulastic springs

@@TFLtruck the best place in the world

i cant afford a house. one of these might be tempting.

Can you make a video about yours. I’ve got the Kelderman on my 550 but I’m intrigued… before this video I had never heard of Liquid Spring.

thank you for watching.

That is if you’re willing to wait 17 months which is what it was for that truck.

@@garrisongoodman4775 All the trucks are readily available now days. It will be done in much quicker time frame and they may have few in stocks.

They do make these for fire fighter trucks. Got a sweet one on the Army Post I work at. It’s a 2022 F-550. No one uses it because we don’t have a fire department. Got about 5 of them. Government spending for you. Waste, Fraud and Abuse.

Or 2 haha

Good question. Either it's no better than what Ford says for the chassis used before their additions and these guys no TFL know to perk up to mention it, or they're strategically omitting it because it's Actually lower than stock. And "towing" is not the same as "Hauling", which is what they Do mention increase when they speak of the Payload. FYI: most truck drivers don't rightly differentiate Payload (i.e. Hauling) from Towing. And the BIG number that's used for impact and advertising is the GCWR which includes the weight of the truck and whatever it's Hauling, which in this case is more weight of suspension and the bed and electronics. I.e. the New Curb weight of these trucks subtracts from the Combined in GCWR and therefore reduces the towing a trailer allowed.

Well McDonald's and other American fast food companies often have substantially different menus and unique items in other countries we don't have here so....not that crazy actually.

He is at the Overland Expo. It is smarter to go to an exhibition where they show their best. At the factory a customer is likely to get less attention.

You can get a Lariat 550.

@@aggiewoodie yes, that's what he had. But you cannot get a limited or a platinum

If you are buying one of these, you can pay for a custom interior.

lariat is all ya need and nothing ya dont

Trim? Thats perhaps the lamest thing ive ever heard said about a truck! Trim package is for your wifes car and bbags with man buns.

you can also order a ford ranger as a chassis cab as well. or you could last year.

@@TFLnow yes, but I wonder if anybody in the United States ever did that

@@kevinbarry71 meals on wheels and the humane society where I live have used them.

@@jubowub3685 OK. Guess I didn't notice

External res shocks are for speed/dunning. A true trail beater, doesn't need, nor want those. Slow crawing, trails, rocks. They are not preferred. Feel free to giggle at such set ups, built for the wrong need.

@@96kylar a solid axle + stock shocks is a great combo for blowing out shocks on 'normal' washboard road driving, Edmunds did a video where a Tacoma TRD Offroad and Pro4x Titan did just that after about 10 miles of washboard. So yeah heat capacity of the shock is a valid question even if you're not desert running

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Really want to know this too (fully laden and full-time living in it). Someone please give us an answer. Thanks.

Yea obviously bro a 350 could pull that

Right, just $179K, lol, pocket change. Makes a lot of new trucks sound pretty affordable, too. It's all relative.

These trucks have a higher towing capacity and a higher payload capacity , you’ll be fine

@@yogiballa those are just words, maybe based on some common sense, but unless proven by DOT recertification, good luck with that conversation on the side of the highway with highway patrol.

The brown truck at the show is a gas truck! You most definitely can order a gas truck.

@@BloomingCastleKings thanks

You can lower it to fit in a 7ft garage. Just watch their video on delivery 2023 black F550

Liquid Spring makes suspension upgrades for F53 motorhome chassis with 7.3 gas engines. Engine shouldn't make a difference.

Yes he is doing the first leg of the trip

@@bmgbaby5867 so not all the way to Prudhoe Bay?

@@chrisgill7824 Could always answer your question by researching the video(s) that talk about it in depth.

The suspension/frame allow it to handle more.

More power doesn't help you haul more. There is a reason you see commercial vehicles doing 35 mph up steep grades. They derate commercial vehicles on purpose.

Yeah! get the chevy if you want to be stranded in the middle of the desert 🤣

Spec a higher reduction ratio on your differentials, like 41:10 or 47:11 instead of the common 41:11. I know the BlueBird Visions with the 6.7 ISB Cummins have a 37:7 rear axle ratio, but that's because the 6.7 in the Vision is rated at a rather wimpy 260 HP.

It’s a 550 With 4.88 gear ratio with a 10 Speed

something may happen in the near future.

@@TFLnow Don't you mean, stay tuned? lol

@@TFLnow that would be awesome if they do. I'd be interested in bringing a cab and chassis Ram over to them.

Yes they are now offering a ram 5500

I believe they said it was a Powerstroke

6.7 Powerstroke

they are all diesel.

They are the 6.7 diesel but I was wondering why the exhaust tip was the style of the gas..

180k is cheap for a custom manufactured vehicle like these. Go back to your Hyundai Tucson and leave the real trucks to us.

6.7 been out for 10 years proven itself very reliable engine

You didn’t watch the full video … he gives prices on all of them.

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