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That was the day shift.... now comes the night shift.

I finished up the reinforcement plates for the Dropmember R&P notches. These are pretty basic.... just some .1875" plates that mimic the frame rail & notch area. There will be one on each side of the rail 'sandwiching' the vertical portion of the frame rail.

I loosely installed the pass side plates to give an idea of what I'm doing. I'll drill the holes out tomorrow & install them w/some GRADE-8 hardware. As mentioned previously, this did require reshaping some of the vertical portion of the pass side rail so that everything was as flat as possible.

While it's still not bullet-proof, it's stronger than w/no reinforcements (whether they're necessary or not). Also, if you look closely @ the 2nd pic, you'll notice there's no longer the 'curled' portion of frame where the pass side rail transitions from vertical to horizontal @ the top of the rail....