you mean this part inside the door? the patch pieces are fine, and come with the nuts - I've seen lots abused enough to crack the metal, result of the leverage of the door weight being roughly swung out to the limit, to make it stronger you'd have to weld an I-beam in all the way over to the latch side wink

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
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