PSA: Truck abusers, your LCA frame mounts may be cracking

How do your core support cracks look? have you ever tried to fix them?

Any other places on the frame you've had cracking that you caught before they catastrophically failed?

 

my core support is uglier than a sack full of assholes and is temporally bolted together in key locations, ideally I should be using button head bolts but I didn't have any laying around. Lately I've been spending time cutting and shaping a template to make a brace on the lower support side that will bolt together to make a sammich on both sides..

 

Mall speed bumps are brutal, eh ?

 

I just had this happen on the street. Welds just broke

 

Holy Shit!!!!

I thought I was doing some abuse breaking an upper control arm. I don't have anything on you guys espescially @MonkeyProof . WTF cracks in the cab. Now that's abuse

my trail fix held for the last 6 hours of the Golden Spike Trail though

 

good stuff right there!

 

Was this recent? I have a set of dessert racing upper arms I just pulled off my truck if you need a set.

 

no it was last year. they sent me a new set. for what I do the Light racing uca's do the job. If i break another I will definally get a set beefier set

thanks for the offer though

 

That's some fancy photography

 

you got it. I gotta say, that's one impressive trail fix to get off that trail. It is not an easy trail out of there.

 

The frame is fine. but I should also mention if you do a lot of washboard roads like what's at Death Valley then you probably should also pay attention to your upper radiator support. Mine has cracks/tears in several places that I know is from those roads.

my Hella horns have rattled so much that they have caused some cracks


Driver side, passenger isn't as bad but definitely getting there..


And lastly for now, another victim of the Death Valley washboard roads. The broken hood catch thingy. Fixed with one from an older Corolla from Pick A Part

 

Wow.....

 

You just run the shit outta your truck! Seems like we outta go out for a ride and see what shit we can break next!!

 

mmmm i love fancy tripods. ill have to check my uca in the morning

 

Fair enough, but I didn't say whose truck we are gonna break. Lol

 

How did you reinforce your front bumper mounts? I can tell mine are cracking and I'm considering options to beef everything up, but I don't know if I'll have time to do the fix before my next trip though.

 

Complete rebuild using 3/8 plate and 1/2" studs