New frame brackets are for crash protection?

[Terrymo]

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[BDinTX]

I mean if we are being real most people that run anything bigger are just building mall crawlers and will never get dirtier than after a rain.

Not sure I agree with that, but I do get a kick out of the ones that say they're running oversized tires and don't rub. Ya they won't in a parking lot...

I took that bracket off mine - preemptive strike.

 

[Terrymo]

Not sure I agree with that, but I do get a kick out of the ones that say they're running oversized tires and don't rub. Ya they won't in a parking lot...

I took that bracket off mine - preemptive strike.

As long as you avoid the speed bumps near Starbucke

 

[Camaroboi13]

I’ve rubbed a lot of stuff on the JTOD, fenders, bumpers, diffs, LCAs, etc. One thing I haven’t rubbed is that bracket. Its official job is to prevent the passenger side tire from entering the cab space and causing a rollover in a frontal crash. Mine stays on, my wife’s stays on.

 

[Terrymo]

I’ve rubbed a lot of stuff on the JTOD, fenders, bumpers, diffs, LCAs, etc. One thing I haven’t rubbed is that bracket. Its official job is to prevent the passenger side tire from entering the cab space and causing a rollover in a frontal crash. Mine stays on, my wife’s stays on.

Maybe an obvious reason that I’m overlooking but why is the bracket only on the passenger side?

 

[Camaroboi13]

Maybe an obvious reason that I’m overlooking but why is the bracket only on the passenger side?

Someone has to live to tell the story when you crash your jeep

Honestly I really have no clue why it’s just the one side. My guess is Jeep slapped it on just to get from 4 stars to 5 stars on rollover protection and it costs too much money to do both.

 

[jadmt]

Maybe an obvious reason that I’m overlooking but why is the bracket only on the passenger side?

here is what I think, when the axle went to the FAD there became an obviously weak link in the axle tube so the tube can shear sending the pass tire back thru the pass floorboard. I hate looking at that part of my axle as it looks like it is primed to snap there.

 

[BDinTX]

Its official job is to prevent the passenger side tire from entering the cab space and causing a rollover in a frontal crash.

I've seen that theorized and often repeated but I'm curious if anyone has actually seen that documented as factual. This video has also been presented as a way to back up the statement but it's an offset crash and you can clearly see the passenger tire doesn't get pushed back. The drivers side does.

2019 Jeep Wrangler 4-door driver-side small overlap IIHS crash test (youtube.com)

In fact, none of the tests the NHTSA performs seems to emphasize the passenger side and if it were intended to prevent the tire from entering the passenger space why isn't it on both sides?
Car Safety Ratings | Vehicles, Car Seats, Tires | NHTSA

Final point - that bracket, while it may be a safety addition would be engineered for factory height and factory tires. A lift and oversized tires could actually mean that bracket makes the occupants less safe under some crash conditions.

 

[Camaroboi13]

I've seen that theorized and often repeated but I'm curious if anyone has actually seen that documented as factual.

I actually saw it on a pamphlet at the dealership when I bought my wife’s 24 Wrangler but brushed it off because I already had it on mine so I just agreed with the salesman. The pamphlet had keyed in on all the new safety features that they come with, although I don’t know if it was a legit Jeep branded paper or something the dealer made to sell cars.

 

[BDinTX]

I actually saw it on a pamphlet at the dealership when I bought my wife’s 24 Wrangler but brushed it off because I already had it on mine so I just agreed with the salesman. The pamphlet had keyed in on all the new safety features that they come with, although I don’t know if it was a legit Jeep branded paper or something the dealer made to sell cars.

Well I'll be darned... I also found this.

It still doesn't make sense it's only one side. Your guess to get 1 better star and save a buck is sounding pretty plausible.

 

[Camaroboi13]

Well I'll be darned... I also found this.

It still doesn't make sense it's only one side. Your guess to get 1 better star and save a buck is sounding pretty plausible.

Yep, that’s what I saw at the dealer. Companies are going to do the bare bones minimum to skate by, and it’s only going to get worse as the years go on.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Yep, that’s what I saw at the dealer. Companies are going to do the bare bones minimum to skate by, and it’s only going to get worse as the years go on.

So there is a driver side one? How would you add it? Aren't the bolts too long to add?

 

[Camaroboi13]

So there is a driver side one? How would you add it? Aren't the bolts too long to add?

I’m curious to know if maybe a European model would have a left side one?

 

[Zandcwhite]

I mean if we are being real most people that run anything bigger are just building mall crawlers and will never get dirtier than after a rain.

The 39s on the wife's have never been to the mall... it is dirty in the costco parking lot often

 

[Pig-Pen]

Ohh a new mod! Is there a rubicon version?

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