Originally Posted by Waflet

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I have not seen any breakage that I blame on the aluminum u-brace at all. I did break a ball stud, but while I had it off for a few days before getting the broken piece out, I broke another one in a plastic u-brace. Both broke because the stud backed out & got loose (forgot to use locktite on the aluminum which won't work in plastic). The only rear tower I ever broke was on a plastic u-brace (hitting a jump way wrong & going into the wall at full speed tower first will do that).

I see no reason not to, but then again, unless you are breaking lots of plastic u-braces like my kids did, I no reason to spend the extra $.