FreezingFlatlander
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You can search YouTube for J Brace to find video of the J Brace installation but here are 3 photos showing the problem area, the brace itself, and the brace after installation. It appears to me that the structure without the brace might be ok but the brace is a very substantial piece of metal that would add a great amount of strength to the box structure. The brace must have been designed for a reason so would think it should be installed on every new Ranger. Am still sticking with the decision to get the Ranger but not happy about the weak design of the box.
These pictures are from an Austrialian version of the Ranger and I don't know if the U.S models have been built to address this issue or not. I hope someone can confirm that the U.S. models that are being produced have or have not been built to stiffen this area of the box. I looked at the structure of the front of the box for my F150 and it is nothing exotic or of the strength of the J-Brace so maybe I'm making too much of this issue but yet that J-Brace must have been made for a purpose.
These pictures are from an Austrialian version of the Ranger and I don't know if the U.S models have been built to address this issue or not. I hope someone can confirm that the U.S. models that are being produced have or have not been built to stiffen this area of the box. I looked at the structure of the front of the box for my F150 and it is nothing exotic or of the strength of the J-Brace so maybe I'm making too much of this issue but yet that J-Brace must have been made for a purpose.
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