Door strut bracket recomendations - Grady or Heninger?

[Bitsyncmaster]

OK, that is awesome to hear.

Seems very easy to have fabricated... eyeballing it, it looks like 1/8" thick steel?

When I got mine I remember saying "I could have built those myself". Yes, it looks like it cut from off the shelf angle iron.

[mike123]

Thanks again guys... I'll take a serious look into this in the spring and get some opinions from the local owners group on whether I am just being paranoid or whether I have the beginning of a real problem with mine. If the latter, I'll draw something up in CAD and start getting some prototypes from SendCutSend :-)

[Timeless]

When I got mine I remember saying "I could have built those myself". Yes, it looks like it cut from off the shelf angle iron.

Exactly what I did. Metal strip from Home Depot, SS strut ball mounts from DMC, cut into 2 pieces, welded ball mounts, panel bonded and bolted. Sendcutsend not required.

[82DMC12]

I just installed the DPI door strut reinforcement plate. It's excellent I did learn the hard way that the threaded part of the insert goes INTO the body, not protruding through the infill plate. I don't know why I got confused but I installed the first one (which was actually the passenger side plate on the driver door), and tested it with a strut and immediately popped the insert out of the bracket. I had to bring it to a machine shop to get it re-set and welded to make sure it doesn't pop out again in case I have to replace the stud. Oops.

Note that you'll need a real man's rivet installer to set in the 1/4" rivets. I bought a Rivet King RK93 on Ebay. I also used it to install 1/4" rivets on the top of the roof box to keep it from ever lifting up.

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