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I got my BMR STB this week and when I went to install it I noticed that ther are re-enforcing plates welded on the tower that extend into the area where the brace end plates would sit, meaning that the brace will not have a flat surface to sit on. I shimmed the brace up with washers but I would guess that flat shim plates would give the brace a better platform to sit on.
Anyone else run into this and how did you solve it?
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The Hotchkis STB ships with shim plates so that the brace will lay flush. You might be able to talk Hotchkis into selling you two of these...they have pretty responsive online customer service.
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Hawk, were the plates there on yours, it doesn't sound (or look like it)?
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There are plates, one on each shock tower - in your second picture, the plate on the right with the hole in it - that extend about 1/2 inch into the area where the brace sits. So the end plates of the brace are resting partly on those additional reinforcing plates and partly on the other plate you see in the first picture (which extends just beyond the endplate of the STB).
I don't know if this makes it any easier to understand, but the bottom line is the end plate is not sitting flat, it rests partly on one of the reinforcing plates and partly on the other.
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I think I follow you. In my own opinion I would not install unless it is a nice flat fit.
We have seen many installed here and yours is the first one I've heard that doesn't fit properly. There is a lot of load at that point and I'd want a nice flat fit.
I wonder what has changed there. Maybe ask Jeff Y.
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