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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Bringing this thread to a conclusion.
I’m going to install a 100% vertical upright support where the angled bar stock is (was) welded to the frame mount.
The vertical upright will terminate right on the cross beam of the bed, locking everything in place for good.
Instead of using a flimsy weld and bar stock, I’m going to use 1/4” wall square tubing that will slip over the frame mount tubing and over the truck bed cross beam.
It’ll replace the uppermost piece of the mount in this pic. The part that’s gone on both of my mounts.
Honestly, I do think this product is junk. It’s cheap. It’s not strong.
I’m going to make it strong, so the only way this can fail now is for it to bend the cross beam of the bed, bend the square tubing of the Torklift mount, or rip the bolts out of the frame.
No other modes of failure possible.
That’s how Torklift should have been building these things. They’re cheaply done and the geometry is all wrong. The stock design Creates excessive shear forces when it only needs to be an upright in compression taking the load. Bad design.
I’m going to install a 100% vertical upright support where the angled bar stock is (was) welded to the frame mount.
The vertical upright will terminate right on the cross beam of the bed, locking everything in place for good.
Instead of using a flimsy weld and bar stock, I’m going to use 1/4” wall square tubing that will slip over the frame mount tubing and over the truck bed cross beam.
It’ll replace the uppermost piece of the mount in this pic. The part that’s gone on both of my mounts.
Honestly, I do think this product is junk. It’s cheap. It’s not strong.
I’m going to make it strong, so the only way this can fail now is for it to bend the cross beam of the bed, bend the square tubing of the Torklift mount, or rip the bolts out of the frame.
No other modes of failure possible.
That’s how Torklift should have been building these things. They’re cheaply done and the geometry is all wrong. The stock design Creates excessive shear forces when it only needs to be an upright in compression taking the load. Bad design.
