I posted an update. Thanks for the suggestions. I was able to find the u-bolts locally and I figured why not just fix the broken plates. I sometimes just think I have to get new stuff all the time. Funny thing is I follow a guy on Youtube who is a wheel right, https://www.youtube.com/user/EngelsCoachShop/videos and his latest video showed him brazing up some worn out bolts. I thought of that for a minute, but for $100 I got four new bolts. Probably would have spent half of that for some brazing rods and die cutter to chase the threads.

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