Front Frame Mount Tie Downs Not Working!
I have gone through so many sets of Torklift frame mounts I want to fix the problem permanently. Why aren’t there bars run across the whole truck like for the rear tie downs? Those last. M...
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Well certainly and interesting read this one.
Early on, my guess was a) perhaps the insert tube that the tie-downs attach to wasn't inserted far enough. The further out/less it's inserted the more leverage would be applied to the mount. I realized this early on with my non TL tie-downs so I started pushing the tube into the receiver further so the tie-downs(Fastguns) were angled in more towards the truck from the camper mount points.
And b) Can't picture how it moves/pivots 11" in a truck box, so assumed you had a flat deck, but you mentioned you've got a reg. box, so that's out the window. If mine pivoted that much, it have crushed in the wheel well by a good bit. (In no way am I insinuating it's not as you stated, just can picture it.)
That is quite the damage. That metal has deformed quite a bit.
So..... time for guesstimations ......
Your truck is a 2500....have you checked your truck frame? Is it porpoising at all, even on normal road/highway bumps? Has the truck frame been flexing/bending? That would put some weird stresses on the brackets.
Also.....you've replaced them a number of times. Did you buy them from the same place? over what time span? Reason: If from the same place (or even from different places in the same zip code) it could be possible that all the ones you got were from the same build batch. Perhaps a faulty batch. And the place you got them doesn't sell many, so yo kept buying new ones from the same faulty batch, hence the repeat problems. And if they aren't a TL dealer, they may not have gotten a recall notice, if there was one. If different places but close together, maybe they all got the same bad batch ones, so you were still buying faulty ones. I know, sounds far fetched, but the universe has a perverse sense of humour and it just may have been your turn to be the butt. ;)
I would seriously be emailing TL with pics. From all accounts, a very good company, which is rare these days. So they will be interested and you'll also be doing the TC community a solid if, in fact there is a bad batch, and others just haven't been bit yet. Could literally be saving a life, as what you've described is a catastrophic failure.
Or, and I know others have thought this to themselves, there's a big chunk of the picture we're not being shown, which again, I'm not stating is the case. But I'm sure you can understand, given the seemingly unicorn like issue coupled with this being the internet... :)
TorkLift.....are you here lurking?
Early on, my guess was a) perhaps the insert tube that the tie-downs attach to wasn't inserted far enough. The further out/less it's inserted the more leverage would be applied to the mount. I realized this early on with my non TL tie-downs so I started pushing the tube into the receiver further so the tie-downs(Fastguns) were angled in more towards the truck from the camper mount points.
And b) Can't picture how it moves/pivots 11" in a truck box, so assumed you had a flat deck, but you mentioned you've got a reg. box, so that's out the window. If mine pivoted that much, it have crushed in the wheel well by a good bit. (In no way am I insinuating it's not as you stated, just can picture it.)
That is quite the damage. That metal has deformed quite a bit.
So..... time for guesstimations ......
Your truck is a 2500....have you checked your truck frame? Is it porpoising at all, even on normal road/highway bumps? Has the truck frame been flexing/bending? That would put some weird stresses on the brackets.
Also.....you've replaced them a number of times. Did you buy them from the same place? over what time span? Reason: If from the same place (or even from different places in the same zip code) it could be possible that all the ones you got were from the same build batch. Perhaps a faulty batch. And the place you got them doesn't sell many, so yo kept buying new ones from the same faulty batch, hence the repeat problems. And if they aren't a TL dealer, they may not have gotten a recall notice, if there was one. If different places but close together, maybe they all got the same bad batch ones, so you were still buying faulty ones. I know, sounds far fetched, but the universe has a perverse sense of humour and it just may have been your turn to be the butt. ;)
I would seriously be emailing TL with pics. From all accounts, a very good company, which is rare these days. So they will be interested and you'll also be doing the TC community a solid if, in fact there is a bad batch, and others just haven't been bit yet. Could literally be saving a life, as what you've described is a catastrophic failure.
Or, and I know others have thought this to themselves, there's a big chunk of the picture we're not being shown, which again, I'm not stating is the case. But I'm sure you can understand, given the seemingly unicorn like issue coupled with this being the internet... :)
TorkLift.....are you here lurking?
