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Why I never had much confidence in Kenny Brown parts
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<blockquote data-quote="ac427cobra" data-source="post: 5832440" data-attributes="member: 6247"><p>Mark:</p><p></p><p>IMHO these factory nuts are not designed to take any up and down thrust or shear load. The factory nuts are welded onto a very thin piece of metal that is placed inside of the frame rail. These are basically only designed to hold the nuts in place and that's it. With the factory bracket shaped like an "L" it attaches at both this face and the bottom of the frame member. There will be no up and down force due to the capture on the bottom of the frame rail. </p><p></p><p>When I installed this originally I looked at it and did one of these: :dw: I was like WTF? This is not the hot set-up by any stretch of the imagination. But, like an idiot I placed some confidence in the Kenny Brown parts I had purchased and went against my instincts and just slammed the damn thing together because I was pretty pissed off by that time after everything I had gone through regarding the KB IRS w/rear hardmount install. </p><p></p><p>I will now be reinstalling it like I wanted to originally with a bottom support for the IRS subframe to rest on so there is not so much pressure at this attachment point. </p><p></p><p>Like the old saying goes; "There's never enough time to do it right the first time, but there's always enough time to do it over!" <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>Stay tuned for repair progress pics!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ac427cobra, post: 5832440, member: 6247"] Mark: IMHO these factory nuts are not designed to take any up and down thrust or shear load. The factory nuts are welded onto a very thin piece of metal that is placed inside of the frame rail. These are basically only designed to hold the nuts in place and that's it. With the factory bracket shaped like an "L" it attaches at both this face and the bottom of the frame member. There will be no up and down force due to the capture on the bottom of the frame rail. When I installed this originally I looked at it and did one of these: :dw: I was like WTF? This is not the hot set-up by any stretch of the imagination. But, like an idiot I placed some confidence in the Kenny Brown parts I had purchased and went against my instincts and just slammed the damn thing together because I was pretty pissed off by that time after everything I had gone through regarding the KB IRS w/rear hardmount install. I will now be reinstalling it like I wanted to originally with a bottom support for the IRS subframe to rest on so there is not so much pressure at this attachment point. Like the old saying goes; "There's never enough time to do it right the first time, but there's always enough time to do it over!" :( Stay tuned for repair progress pics! [/QUOTE]
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