hb - there's a correct patch piece available from most vendors to replace the lower foot or so of that brace - old car centre will have it .... you might need the bracket that bolts to as well

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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