Search hasn't worked for the last couple of days (e-mail sent to the PBB gods) and I went back over 80 pages with no joy; FAQ only has the part number.
At least one member here has torn one Ford shock mount off his 4runner; it didn't tear off at the weld, the frame material cracked and broke off. Fortunately, someone had a trail side welder to get it fixed.
Anyone else brake a Ford shock mount on a Toy? How about pics of the shock mount install.
When I did mine I didn't cut the stock shock tower completely off, just enough to slide the ford tower into. You can bend the stock mount around it with a little cutting and weld it back up.
The only ones I've seen fail, the frame is actually what failed, not the tower.
This pic is about 6 years old, but I haven't changed anything and they've held up perfectly to 90k miles of street driving, and jumps, whoops, crawling, etc. offroad.
I welded them to the old IFS bracketry, so the "frame bracing" is the factory 3/16" stuff and tied into the motor mount.
Question: How are you guys getting the bottom of the mount above the bottom of the frame? On my '85, with a 1" Roger Brown BL, I'm hitting the body before I can get the mount bottom above the frame bottom.
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