Somebody's BAD idea....
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From: Kingsland, GA
Somebody's BAD idea....
As I was trekking around fleabay today, I happened to notice THIS....
Anybody else think that strapping a nearly 8000# truck to a chunk of 6061 aluminum is a bad idea? The handlebars on my dirtbike are better alloy, and I STILL bent them....
Now, nice stainless spacers might have a use...
Anybody else think that strapping a nearly 8000# truck to a chunk of 6061 aluminum is a bad idea? The handlebars on my dirtbike are better alloy, and I STILL bent them....
Now, nice stainless spacers might have a use...
Cargo Master
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From: Ardenvoir, Washington
I retired as a Boeing machinist and we never used 6061 Alum for any production parts which required strength to hold up under aircraft requirements. It was mainly used for tooling fixtures.. Bad idea.
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ill never put a set of these on my truck again. i had them on my chevy (just a 1500 5.7) because my lift pushed out the front tires out 3 inches each side. so i got just some 1.5 inch spacers to make it a little better, i was out in a waterway in my buddies field we were looking for some coyotes, i had to go over a 6 foot wide culvert with a small ditch on each side. well it was a little slippery because it rained earlier that day (and my truck was a little too wide) the left rear wheel slipped off the side maybe only a 2 foot drop onto a piece of concrete well i didnt think much of it and climbed out of the ditch luckly it was lifted 10 inches and was tall enough it didnt bend the axle on the side of the drain pipe. got back on the gravel road and my truck had a horrible shimmy. got back to his house and the lr wheel was bent inwards at the top. took it off, 3 of the studs in the alum pulled through the spacer. this was supposed to be t6 alum which im pretty sure is pretty storong (dont know much about metals) i bet each rear tire had at the most 1000 lbs on it total and it snaped that easy. id hate to see what the torque of a psd would do to them. my advise to everyone DO NOT BUY THEM, EVEN FOR A HONDA!
