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Rich, I've been admiring your work in the attached pictures to this post. I am in the process of repairing my 1979 Chevy C10 2WD frame. Do you know of anyone that offers a steering box brace for the rear 2 steering box bolts for 2WD? The brace in your pictures that you made for the 87 4WD looks great and is what I'm looking for. I have repaired my frame cracks, I'm currently working on the Warrior side and bottom 2WD plates to get them to fit the frame, and plan to use the front Autofab brace for the front 2 bolts. I would really like to also use a brace for the rear 2 bolts since the worst damage to my frame occurred at the rear lower bolt hole. Both front bolt holes also had numerous cracks, but the rear was far worse and actually had a chunk missing. I'm guessing I'm going to have to make a brace for the rear like you did since it appears that no one makes such. Did you use 3/16 material? Thanks for your detailed excellent coverage on this topic and the pictures. You do excellent work.
His pictures look like a 2wd truck. Off Road Design makes steering box braces and rear shock mount braces, for both 4wd and 2wd.
...I couldn't figure out a good way to plate the inside area of the frame since the cross member comes right up to the frame rail on the inside and the frame rail is not flat in the bolt hole area, I was thinking maybe to bolt up a spacer to the frame and weld a plate to the spacer and frame? Could you describe how you did yours? Did you use a single plate for all 4 holes or one for the front 2 and another for the rear 2 bolts?...