What is the purpose of this !!!

[BladeRanger]

What is the purpose of this? ( see pics circle in RED). It's just below the housing of the front shocks. I noticed that my Upper Arm Controller would rest on that stuff. I was inspecting some rubbing noise when I step on the brake and noticed after I jack the front end one at a time on each side that the Upper Arm Controller would rest on the metal. I assume having same issue when off roading. Is this the stopper for over extending the shocks?

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[GitRDone]

Is this item plastic? I'm thinking it's just a splash shield to protect the shock. And if you were running through terrain rough enough to make it rub, you wouldn't hear it above the frenzied screams of your passengers.

 

[BladeRanger]

Is this item plastic? I'm thinking it's just a splash shield to protect the shock. And if you were running through terrain rough enough to make it rub, you wouldn't hear it above the frenzied screams of your passengers.

Its made of metal.

 

[MikeyB]

It looks like a rest for the Upper control arms, for when the truck is on a lift, just my 2c.
I would be more concerned with the upper part of the coil spring,in pic 1, it looks like it's rubbing on that black bucket(?)with FOX written on it. Is that normal?

 

[Waltztj]

That is from the forming process and it is needed cause it stiffens the straight part

 

[WolfgangVTS]

grind it off, tell us what changes.....

 

[P. A. Schilke]

What is the purpose of this? ( see pics circle in RED). It's just below the housing of the front shocks. I noticed that my Upper Arm Controller would rest on that stuff. I was inspecting some rubbing noise when I step on the brake and noticed after I jack the front end one at a time on each side that the Upper Arm Controller would rest on the metal. I assume having same issue when off roading. Is this the stopper for over extending the shocks?

Hi Bladimir,

This is a stiffening flange that was likely needed due to strengthen the part. Just speculation but you see the holes in the flat surface... They may have experienced cracking at the holes and the flange would stiffen and prevent cracking... You certainly do not want to remove this....looks like the UCA is poorly designed....JMO

Best,
Phil

 

[Msfitoy]

It's a flange to strengthen the flat metal around it...

 

[BladeRanger]

Hi Bladimir,

This is a stiffening flange that was likely needed due to strengthen the part. Just speculation but you see the holes in the flat surface... They may have experienced cracking at the holes and the flange would stiffen and prevent cracking... You certainly do not want to remove this....looks like the UCA is poorly designed....JMO

Best,
Phil

Thanks for the info, I might have to go to a different UCA. I measured the original UCA and the width were thesame.

 

[BladeRanger]

It looks like a rest for the Upper control arms, for when the truck is on a lift, just my 2c.
I would be more concerned with the upper part of the coil spring,in pic 1, it looks like it's rubbing on that black bucket(?)with FOX written on it. Is that normal?

Well this Upper Arm supposed to be design for the Ranger but looks like I will need to search for a wider upper arm so it doesn't hit on the flange.

 

[Aonarch]

Bad UCA design.

You don't need a wider base, just different geometry of the tubes to the ball joint.

 

[dtech]

was put there so it could be de-contented.

 

[BladeRanger]

Bad UCA design.

You don't need a wider base, just different geometry of the tubes to the ball joint.

Yeah, looks like I will need to start searching for a different UCAs, I compared the inside length of the UCA and it's pretty close to the original UCA but the geometry is different. The distance of the flange is almost same as the original UCAs ( 2nd pics below) . Ford suspension Engineers did not give a lot of room.

 

[CO2Ranger]

Yeah, looks like I will need to start searching for a different UCAs, I compared the inside length of the UCA and it's pretty close to the original UCA but the geometry is different. The distance of the flange is almost same as the original UCAs ( 2nd pics below) . Ford suspension Engineers did not give a lot of room.

What UCA are you running?

 

[Hounddog409]

Hi Bladimir,

This is a stiffening flange that was likely needed due to strengthen the part. Just speculation but you see the holes in the flat surface... They may have experienced cracking at the holes and the flange would stiffen and prevent cracking... You certainly do not want to remove this....looks like the UCA is poorly designed....JMO

Best,
Phil

That top of the spring cover, that has fox written on it is bent. Now hitting spring???

What did you hit?

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