[Bob Carriere]

After looking at the second, picture the brace is certainly sturdy enough to brace the windscreen. Was the cab 12 with the opening windscreen weaker than the solid Cab 11 windshield???

I have very limited experience with the cab 12.... on the cab 11 the windscreen bracket looks forged stamped with only two bolts on each side going through the side of the cab.... on top of the bracket is a pipe section going up to the roof. In a lot of case the top corner .. where it reaches the roof becomes seperated from the stretcher that holds up the top part of the windshield and runs parallel to the roof line. Certainly the whole roof assembly cannot be very strong when the the side window opening is framed in hard wood with some small L brackets.

I rolled over 2 1/2 turns in a M37 and drove it back 100 miles albeit with cracked windows and skewed windscreen..... seatsbelts saved the day....passenger and I walked out with bruised pride and not a scratch...... I would not want to do that with the roof of the cab 11......

But I am sure that the way that brace is positioned....and the fender would not be the strongest location for a strong brace...it would have come in handy in deflecting tensioned branches away from the poor driver...particularly when drving w/o the door....