Steering box mount in place and ready to be welded. This particular steering box has only 3 mounts. The box itself is dirty, but in good working condition, so I have decided to keep it. I repaired a mounting hole on the steering box. Someone had hacked the mounting hole and made it oval shaped. The integrity of the mount was also jeopardized, so I rebuilt the mount with weld and then ground it down to a uniform shape. The mounting plate is 3/8" thick and I will place a triangle shaped gusset on the opposite side for additional support.

The next step is to "box" both sides of the frame rail and finish weld.