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Originally Posted by lra
Has anybody heard or seen a Falcon or Crewman breaking in the middle ?
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Yep, I've got an AUII XR6 ute as a parts car that did a *lot* of dirt road work fairly well loaded up.
It cracked the rear wall of the cab several inches above where the rear frame meets the wall, and the crack was right at the tip of where the pressed in strengthening ribs in the rear wall ended.
Styleside utes have an extra bracket that supports the front end of the tub that goes from the front tub/tray mount to the back of the cab, and i've noticed that when the utes are built or converted to flat trays the bracket is missing.
IMO the bracket adds a lot of strength to a Falcon ute as it braces the torque box area at the bottom of the back of the cab where the subframe joins the cab.
The failure is no different to the dual cabs chassis failures from flexing