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So, I've got one of my running boards all painted up pretty and ready to install. However, when I tired to put it on the body I ran into a couple of problems. One of the brackets welded to the bottom of the running board has a slightly enlarged slot, which means that the carriage bolt won't hold when I try to tighten it. Maybe I can use a slightly larger bolt to clear that up.

The biggest problem is that the tabs that sort of lock the carriage bolts in place, which I suspect are supposed to be spring steel, are not in good shape, won't maintain pressure on the bolt head, and are in serious danger of just snapping off. After looking at things, and measuring the holes in the brackets on the frame, I'm thinking of just tack welding the bolts into position, just sloid enough to hold while I install the running board and get the nuts tightened down,

Does anyone have any advice? I'd really like to avoid having to cut off the brackets and weld new ones to the bottom of the boards.

Tim