… they are also on the inside plate, which allows you to clamp the pieces together corner-to-corner. You can now see how the flat plate has been transformed into the top, front, back, outside, and bottom! Also notice the tabs on the open end of the notch… In this picture, you can see how the plates are bent to a perfect corner-to-corner alignment, which is ideal for welding. With the plate clamped to Jeff’s bench, he folded it to about 90 degrees and then double checked the angle with a square. All you need to bend the plate are a couple adjustable wrenches and a table or vice. These material ‘bridges’ are all you’re bending, and they will hold the angle while you check it for square. At each end of the slits (and in the middle of three) there are ‘bridges’ where the material is not cut through. (The kit includes enough plates to notch one frame.) The plate on the right is the outside/top/bottom (you’ll understand soon), while the top left plate is for the inside and the two rectangular plates are the inner boxing plates.ĭid you notice the four lines on this plate? Those aren’t just reference lines to tell you where to bend, they are actually laser cut slits right through the 3/16″ steel. These are the pieces required for one side. Up until that point, adding a step notch kit to our product line wasn’t even on the radar, but we decided we could add a few features to the basic concept of the kits already on the market, and made some up for testing. Jeff had purchased our rear four link kit and some brackets already, so it was a logical step for him to ask if we could produce a step notch kit.
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When he decided to install air ride all the way around and lay frame, a step notch kit was in order. Jeff had this S10 on the road with basically a paint job and a mild drop. I try to keep a watch on what’s going on in the area, because there are so many top-notch (pun intended) shops doing top-notch work that I can learn from, but also because I like to see our parts being used!
I recently had the opportunity to head over to a local garage where a “young guy” (Jeff) was installing one of our step notch kits (click to head to our web store).