90'rado
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Yeah your guess is as good as mine when it comes to the year of my bracket, it works the same as any of the others; which I figure is all that really matters, it just looks different.
I've never seen an OBS cab which was ORIGINALLY equipped with this upper bracket so I'm not sure how the upper bracket was welded, but, most OEM welds I've seen are pretty bad looking, I'm sure this bracket would be no exception. From the factory, putting a couple of dabs of weld on that upper bracket and then bolting in the clutch pedal itself is probably STILL cheaper than fully and completely welding up all accessible areas of the clutch bracket W/O the upper mount bracket. Hardware itself is still cheaper than welding equipment & supplies. Now I honestly don't know about the quality of welds on this upper bracket, like I say, I've never seen one in an OEM setup. Even if they bothered to do good welds, (which I'm skeptical of until I see otherwise) that still leaves everything below.
The clutch bracket itself is more than thick enough to spread out the load, so doubling up material is unnecessary, redundant. Like I already said there really cant be any strength improvement in this bracket b/c it still is welded to the sheet-metal which is going to be the weakest link and the most likely point of failure. (Which is probably why GM put several angles in the sheetmetal in that area, strength.)
We can really only guess as to why GM used it. Perhaps they realized it would be nice to have this bracket installed in all their cabs so that people could just grab a ratchet and tighten a few bolts to install the clutch pedal bracket rather than draggin out the welder,and dicking w/ all that.
Why wouldn't they just weld it to begin with you say? Perhaps for the same reason GM decided to make the OBS frame in such a way that requires dropping the A-arms in order to get access to the nuts which are used to back up the bolts holding the rubber engine mounts to the frame. Or perhaps for the same reason they used the brake-light switch that they did on the OBS as opposed to a more simple, reliable and effective plunger style design. My point is stuff is over-engineered all the time, especially since 25ish years ago and certainly today. GM is a huge lumbering corporation, and I'm not afraid to say they've done a lot of pointless and even stupid stuff before. I'm not attacking you b/c you chose to install the bracket. I would have too, had I been able to locate one, however I realized that it is simply another over-engineered, superfluous piece, (one of many on these trucks I would say).
I've never seen an OBS cab which was ORIGINALLY equipped with this upper bracket so I'm not sure how the upper bracket was welded, but, most OEM welds I've seen are pretty bad looking, I'm sure this bracket would be no exception. From the factory, putting a couple of dabs of weld on that upper bracket and then bolting in the clutch pedal itself is probably STILL cheaper than fully and completely welding up all accessible areas of the clutch bracket W/O the upper mount bracket. Hardware itself is still cheaper than welding equipment & supplies. Now I honestly don't know about the quality of welds on this upper bracket, like I say, I've never seen one in an OEM setup. Even if they bothered to do good welds, (which I'm skeptical of until I see otherwise) that still leaves everything below.
The clutch bracket itself is more than thick enough to spread out the load, so doubling up material is unnecessary, redundant. Like I already said there really cant be any strength improvement in this bracket b/c it still is welded to the sheet-metal which is going to be the weakest link and the most likely point of failure. (Which is probably why GM put several angles in the sheetmetal in that area, strength.)
We can really only guess as to why GM used it. Perhaps they realized it would be nice to have this bracket installed in all their cabs so that people could just grab a ratchet and tighten a few bolts to install the clutch pedal bracket rather than draggin out the welder,and dicking w/ all that.
Why wouldn't they just weld it to begin with you say? Perhaps for the same reason GM decided to make the OBS frame in such a way that requires dropping the A-arms in order to get access to the nuts which are used to back up the bolts holding the rubber engine mounts to the frame. Or perhaps for the same reason they used the brake-light switch that they did on the OBS as opposed to a more simple, reliable and effective plunger style design. My point is stuff is over-engineered all the time, especially since 25ish years ago and certainly today. GM is a huge lumbering corporation, and I'm not afraid to say they've done a lot of pointless and even stupid stuff before. I'm not attacking you b/c you chose to install the bracket. I would have too, had I been able to locate one, however I realized that it is simply another over-engineered, superfluous piece, (one of many on these trucks I would say).
