Originally Posted by 9Fingers

That is a way but i really want a new part. The bracket is pressed out of sheet metal and rather than have properly designed radiussed bends, it has knife creases and these are stress points. Both bends have fractured and I suspect any used part I find will be part broken.
My max has done less than 40k miles and the vibration form the diesel engine has destroyed this bracket.

What I wanted to know is where within Ford do dealers turn when they hit this sort of problem with an error in parts numbering.

Bob