Third Major Blue Ox Casualty

et2 wrote:
This is exactly the truth. Steel supplier tolerances and hardness specifications would shock you if you new anything about automotive components. Example, we are talking about a auto in one case here where the frame tore.Now the manufacture knows this vehicle in a lot of cases will be towed ( let's call it a Jeep). As a matter of fact many set up the power-train to allow for TOAD situations. They even specify the procedure in the owners manual on how to properly do it. Yet according to some here any repercussion to the frame due to a towing failure shouldn't apply to them. The easiest answer is it's a improperly installed or bad design from the base plate mfg.

Hogwash. I built my own baseplate. Before I built it, I looked at Blue OX install instructions to see how they mounted it. It was pretty easy to see that the metal where they installed it was too thin - cheap stamped steel, not really a frame. Instead of using bolts and washers like Blue Ox does, I used a backing plate. 6 years and they don't need tightening, why, because it was done right. Even bent a 1/2 steel bracket rock crawling, but yet no impact on the mount of bolts. Its called building in adequate margin of safety. Somehow you seem to know those tolerances exist, but Blue Ox doesn't? There is a way to do things right.