Show off some frame flex?
#16
05-09-2012, 10:33 AM
I have seen plenty of those modern stiff truck frames cracked and broken.... Loggers use and abuse trucks far beyond the thought of any engineer. Plain old C-channel frames like Ford still uses under the Super Duty, they might not be the stiffest thing out there, and that may hurt handling, but, they last.
Another thing to factor in is that with a stiff frame, anything that isnt absorbed by the suspension is transmitted directly to the body, my old work truck(08 2500HD, Duramax) had more squeaks and rattles in it at 55K than my 96 F250 does at 220K.
It might make for good advertising, and it makes sense for a truck thats really just a car with a box that never leaves pavement, but for a real truck that actually works and spends considerable time off pavement, it just doesn't work.
Buggies are a whole different ballgame, and you can't really compare a suspension with a drivetrain attached to a consumer pickup.
Another thing to factor in is that with a stiff frame, anything that isnt absorbed by the suspension is transmitted directly to the body, my old work truck(08 2500HD, Duramax) had more squeaks and rattles in it at 55K than my 96 F250 does at 220K.
It might make for good advertising, and it makes sense for a truck thats really just a car with a box that never leaves pavement, but for a real truck that actually works and spends considerable time off pavement, it just doesn't work.
Buggies are a whole different ballgame, and you can't really compare a suspension with a drivetrain attached to a consumer pickup.
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05-09-2012, 05:15 PM
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I have seen plenty of those modern stiff truck frames cracked and broken.... Loggers use and abuse trucks far beyond the thought of any engineer. Plain old C-channel frames like Ford still uses under the Super Duty, they might not be the stiffest thing out there, and that may hurt handling, but, they last.
Another thing to factor in is that with a stiff frame, anything that isnt absorbed by the suspension is transmitted directly to the body, my old work truck(08 2500HD, Duramax) had more squeaks and rattles in it at 55K than my 96 F250 does at 220K.
It might make for good advertising, and it makes sense for a truck thats really just a car with a box that never leaves pavement, but for a real truck that actually works and spends considerable time off pavement, it just doesn't work.
Buggies are a whole different ballgame, and you can't really compare a suspension with a drivetrain attached to a consumer pickup.
Another thing to factor in is that with a stiff frame, anything that isnt absorbed by the suspension is transmitted directly to the body, my old work truck(08 2500HD, Duramax) had more squeaks and rattles in it at 55K than my 96 F250 does at 220K.
It might make for good advertising, and it makes sense for a truck thats really just a car with a box that never leaves pavement, but for a real truck that actually works and spends considerable time off pavement, it just doesn't work.
Buggies are a whole different ballgame, and you can't really compare a suspension with a drivetrain attached to a consumer pickup.
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05-09-2012, 08:30 PM
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05-09-2012, 08:51 PM
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Did some one say you were bragging?...lol...Is that a reg cab superduty? because if its longer than this truck it gets worse. It seems to me highboy frames and superduty frames are pretty comparable in strength.
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05-10-2012, 10:47 AM
this has got to be the single funniest hack ever to grace the pages of FTE.
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