Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)
Big Hammer has the right idea. Unfortunately, this is one of those "in for a penny, out for a pound" projects because I started with an effort to adjust the driver's door alignment and the running board bracket problem was discovered while I was under the car. In retrospect, I should have been alerted to the cracked bracket by the increasing squeaky noise whenever I got in or out of the car. Now I know the cause.
I think I will leave the running board in place, remove the broken bracket. grind off the welds, and install a new bracket using bolts instead of rivets (it's a driver not a points car). The real impediment with this car is that the previous owner had undercoating applied and they hosed it on pretty thick, the body bolts were like blobs of heavy tar. I had to be careful about using a torch out of fear of setting the car on fire.