Box Rocket
SILVER Star
I can tell you why that body mount cracked and came apart. That's the body mount thats right over the exhaust on the passenger side. It gets incredibly hot and that metal can get brittle and fatigue faster because of the two decades of heat/cool cycles. Besides that, the rubber bushing on the bottom of that puck is cooked and crushed on one side. So as that side of the body lift collapsed on the melted rubber it put leverage on the bolt and washer on the inside of the truck. You can see that that's the direction that it tore through as well.Yeah my body lift was more than 1". I am not sure how the height could cause the puck to crack the body above the puck. These pucks were 2" tall and 3" wide. This is the only picture I could fine but the sheet metal above this puck was all cracked and busted. I had to weld all the cracks, grind the welds flat, and than I reinforced the area with a new piece of sheet metal.
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This is what happened to the body lift with grade 8 hardware when I totalled her last year. The impact was strong enough to badly bend the frame. I bet a shorter body lift would have held up a lot better in this wreck. This is why tall body lifts are bad....
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