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Roger, your comment "...what's 3 x 3?" Where did you find that? I am not the
webmaster, but I will look into it. In the technical discussion of Welding vs bolting the Rear STB, the following appears: Now let?s compare these numbers to a weld-on arrangement. The mounting/backing plate is 3 inches square. If the backing plate is
fully welded around it?s perimeter, we have 3 (inches) times 4 (sides) = 12 square inches per side times 2 (sides) = 24 square
inches! Even if a stitch weld technique is used and we assume a 1-inch space between 1-inch welds, the weld on attachment
technique provides 12 square inches of area vs. 4.712 for a bolt on arrangement.
The area of a 3x3 square is 9 sq inches. Not 12.
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And Brad, I wasn't busting on your use of the word "best."
Just trying to offer potential consumers an "outside the box" notion. Perhaps the best product is the one that works almost as well but costs less than one-fifth as much to do. (I'm not sure if this is workable for us, though, or not.)
BTW, any claims you make in the interest of marketing, you'd better be able to back up with at least consumer perception. In your case, you seem to have a good product. It's up to us to decide the rest.
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Like I said, even if one of our tires was unloaded in a cornering event it would not create a tension situation...just not as much compression on the bar.....
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Errrr...the top of each spring is rubber mounted to the body soooooooooo......!!!!!!! 
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So therefore it would have to pull far enough that it was tearing the rubber before it ever got a chance to pull the sheetmetal far enough to put the rear strut tower brace in tension...... 
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Judge your smart man.....
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If your STB is gonna see anyhting significant in tension loading, you have FAR more more to worry about than the STB. The geometry just isn't there for it to happen under normal circumstances.
1sick puppy is completely, yet humorously smugly, correct.
It's all about balance.
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I figure this is obvious, but since no one has posted yet... RogerB, my understanding is Bradness is talking about 12 inches of LINEAR weld metal. There is no way I can think of you can fill the entire bar mount to strut surface with weld metal (Unless you whip out the JB weld... . You have to go around the perimeter, so 12 inches would be the perimeter of the mount... But then again, I didn't design the bar...
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Still ,the fact is the struts can still flex dispite how stiff the tower is made due to the rubber mount cones on the top of each strut/spring assy......
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Originally posted by Terry Haines: Still ,the fact is the struts can still flex dispite how stiff the tower is made due to the rubber mount cones on the top of each strut/spring assy...... Good point, I'm gonna go weld my struts to my strut towers right now!!!!!
It's all about balance.
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