Anyone know what this is ?

[Old Ranchero]

Does it have wires and a countdown timer?

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[Adospeed]

I'm going to propose that it's a knee pad to place on the ground for when you sensitive Lariat owners have to jack up the truck to change a tire, hence it's close proximity to the jack. All in favor say "Ai".

Oh my, forgive me for being crass, I meant for you sensitive Lariat owners Butler has to jack up the truck.

Thats my best guess.

 

[altomav]

Exactly. By it's composition and positioning, it appears Ford is deploying a classic HEVI acoustic dampener to implement a horizontally explicit vertically implicit (HEVI) and split-explicit time integration scheme.
With this approach, a divergence damping term is added as a final adjustment to the horizontal velocity at the new time level after completing the vertically implicit portion of the time step. In this manner, the divergence used in the filter term has exactly the same numerical form as that used in the discrete pressure equation. Analysis of the dispersion equation for this form of the filter documents its stability characteristics and confirms that it effectively damps acoustic modes with little artificial influence on the amplitude or propagation of the gravity wave modes that are of physical interest. Some specific aspects of the implementation of the filter in the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) are discussed, and results are presented to illustrate some of the beneficial aspects of suppressing acoustic noise.

Took me a while to finish reading this, had to stop and laugh, read some and laugh some more. Then I looked to see where you are from and then I said to myself, that explains it. Where you can get to good stuff.

 

[Gconk]

I'm going to propose that it's a knee pad to place on the ground for when you sensitive Lariat owners have to jack up the truck to change a tire, hence it's close proximity to the jack. All in favor say "Ai".

Oh my, forgive me for being crass, I meant for you sensitive Lariat owners Butler has to jack up the truck.

Thats my best guess.

Haha, hypothetically if I fired back with "It's for your boyfriend's knees" would I get banned?? Just being hypothetical here....

 

[Old Ranchero]

maybe there's a Flux Capacitor inside?

 

[Red Ryder]

So you mean pillow?

Since it is on the Lariat with the B&O, I can't help but think it is acoustical. Maybe a dampener to keep the seat from rattling from the brutal punishment of that pounding 6x9 sub?

 

[Adospeed]

Haha, hypothetically if I fired back with "It's for your boyfriend's knees" would I get banned?? Just being hypothetical here....

I wouldn't recommend it. The PC police will get ya.

 

[Red Ryder]

Took me a while to finish reading this, had to stop and laugh, read some and laugh some more. Then I looked to see where you are from and then I said to myself, that explains it. Where you can get to good stuff.

I used to work in your town back in the day.

 

[Delzona]

I'm going with emergency pillow, I will not accept any other explanations. Ford looking out for us in case we get stuck in traffic.

We could use the emergency pillow right now, it would be beneficial during the long wait.

 

[CSmith]

Lariat owners have sensitive ears as we all know. It's an acoustic dampener to absorb/reduce the noise coming thru that air filter right there behind the jack.

 

[Michaelkov]

Lariat owners have sensitive ears as we all know. It's an acoustic dampener to absorb/reduce the noise coming thru that air filter right there behind the jack.

Filters the sounds of XL/XLT owners moaning about Lariat features

 

[projectvortex]

I'm going with emergency pillow, I will not accept any other explanations. Ford looking out for us in case we get stuck in traffic.

Smother me please with that pillow and relieve the waiting-for-hybrid angst within me!

 

[Woody27]

Exactly. By it's composition and positioning, it appears Ford is deploying a classic HEVI acoustic dampener to implement a horizontally explicit vertically implicit (HEVI) and split-explicit time integration scheme.
With this approach, a divergence damping term is added as a final adjustment to the horizontal velocity at the new time level after completing the vertically implicit portion of the time step. In this manner, the divergence used in the filter term has exactly the same numerical form as that used in the discrete pressure equation. Analysis of the dispersion equation for this form of the filter documents its stability characteristics and confirms that it effectively damps acoustic modes with little artificial influence on the amplitude or propagation of the gravity wave modes that are of physical interest. Some specific aspects of the implementation of the filter in the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) are discussed, and results are presented to illustrate some of the beneficial aspects of suppressing acoustic noise.

Very informative and extremely erudite. I definitely think you're on to something . . . sorry, what I meant to say is I definetly think you're on something .

 

[CenTexMav]

I have an XLT and don't see one on mine. I am unaffiliated.

 

[LouieSaks]

I just cleaned out my 1996 Ranger to sell it and it had a very similar "pillow" behind the jumpseats. Weird.

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