Bent Frame - Part Deux

[WILDHOBO]

What doesn’t make sense to me is that the dealer is trying to relate the scratched receiver to a downward bend. The gap was wider at the top of the bed, indicating downward force. A receiver impact would be upward force, and if anything occurred, would make the gap smaller at the front-top of the bed.

I concur with others that the underside needs inspection. This could be as simple as poor body alignment. We have a new JL that came with one door misaligned and will be adjusted under warranty. We contacted the dealer the day we brought it home so it was on record.

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[DREDnot]

I would look at the bed to frame mounts. With that weight on the tail end i'd bet that something bent or shifted there. Your weight is concentrated straight down on the sides of the box and the frame pushes back at the floor. When you add acceleration forces generated from a few whoops at the beach and thats the kind of gaps i would expect to find

 

[f33d]

What doesn’t make sense to me is that the dealer is trying to relate the scratched receiver to a downward bend. The gap was wider at the top of the bed, indicating downward force. A receiver impact would be upward force, and if anything occurred, would make the gap smaller at the front-top of the bed.

I concur with others that the underside needs inspection. This could be as simple as poor body alignment. We have a new JL that came with one door misaligned and will be adjusted under warranty. We contacted the dealer the day we brought it home so it was on record.

Don’t be coming at us with science and math. Next thing I know your gonna be telling me the earth ain’t flat.

 

[Hootbro]

Just about every picture I have seen of like bending of the frame at that bed point, it was from a overweight shock loading of the trailer hitch from whatever was being towed or attached to the hitch.

I think the OP regardless of what case he tries to make is not going to have a positive outcome for him.

 

[Glad_he_ate]

Alright boys, we can do this. Lets not derail this one!

Can’t do it ! Must reach 100 pages !!!! !! !!!

 

[Glad_he_ate]

but seriously it appears to be from a towing shock to the hitch. Takes a fair amount of force to bend the frame in that direction.

 

[Pescatoral Pursuit]

Overloaded tongue; case closed.

What happened to the other thread? It was a classic, lol.

 

[Renegade]

OP- Have you towed off road with it at all?

 

[IanNubbit]

Clearly the scrape is 100% unrelated, that would force the bed and frame the other way. Everyone still waiting to hear what happened

 

[UnforseenWeather]

What doesn’t make sense to me is that the dealer is trying to relate the scratched receiver to a downward bend. The gap was wider at the top of the bed, indicating downward force. A receiver impact would be upward force, and if anything occurred, would make the gap smaller at the front-top of the bed.

I concur with others that the underside needs inspection. This could be as simple as poor body alignment. We have a new JL that came with one door misaligned and will be adjusted under warranty. We contacted the dealer the day we brought it home so it was on record.

Agree, that frame bend is from pranging on the middle of the truck, not from scraping the hitch.

 

[Trickster]

Clearly the scrape is 100% unrelated, that would force the bed and frame the other way. Everyone still waiting to hear what happened

I disagree. The scrape could be part of the results after or just before the flex. Imagine a heavy hitch load and you hit a compression on the road surface. The hitch bottoms out on the road THEN the trailer hits the compression and loads up the tongue weight.
Just a theory.

 

[mx5red]

My bed has asymmetric gaps left to right. It’s even top to bottom but with the finger method I noticed it’s a little different one side to the other. I never thought factory frame issue, I just thought shoddy bed alignment.

 

[ecidiego]

My bed has asymmetric gaps left to right. It’s even top to bottom but with the finger method I noticed it’s a little different one side to the other. I never thought factory frame issue, I just thought shoddy bed alignment.

Same here. I have only run dunes. Alignment in our case. OP, I don't know.

If you have to actually try to find a problem, it ain't a problem. A real problem you'll see without necessarily focusing on that.

 

[Gren71]

Overloaded tongue; case closed.

What happened to the other thread? It was a classic, lol.

The mods hit it with the ban hammer.





OP, brutal damage man. Not as significant as i imagined. Actually made me go look at mine to see if the gap was really that different.

 

[S Kama Do!]

Just pile weight in the bed until it's bent back lmao.

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