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While I was at it, I swapped out that leaky cab tilt cylinder.

That's pretty cool. On a related note I got my replacement step mounted this weekend. Man cutting off the old cable mount was a drag. It took all the teeth right off my portaband and sawsall. Even the old cutoff wheel struggled to cut through the cable strands in the center of the mounting...

I was kind of thinking the giant steel or aluminum angle would provide the reinforcement... ;-) I'm so far inland it takes me two days to see a beach. I don't expect to need to board the thing barefoot anytime soon.... But I see the point for your use case.

I was kind of thinking the giant steel or aluminum angle would provide the reinforcement... ;-) That's an option, but in the end I could end up with exactly the same rusted cable issue on a step that barely functions as a step and makes zero improvement in design or function.

Continuing to overthink this... What about attaching a piece of 4 or 6 inch angle to the face of the storage box to make a step there, then hang one of the underneath, giving us three steps instead of just two? Yeah, it would stick out from the box a bit, but still within the width of the...

I think if I had to do something today.... I'd... Cut off the existing cable step mounting boss to make the bottom of the box completely flush. Then hang one of these underneath (I would probably shorten the drop-down a bit though) Then I'd mount one of these on the top of the box lid for...

Hard agree on the manual deployment. In m case I thought the step could be mounted in such a way that it's always deployed until the cab needs to be tilted, in which case I could stow them out of the way. For me, the OEM step has failed. Many of the cable strands are broken from flexing right...

I looked at some of these and thought that it would be pretty easy to attach a spring and pneumatic actuator to fold the step in/out on command. Like this one... it would be super easy. And cool. Edit: You could even have the spring extend the step, and the actuator pull it in. That way if...

Spent some time looking again, found a couple of interesting options: The cable one look a lot more like the OEM, but I really like the tread/step on the other one.

Or maybe one of these under the edge of the bumper: And one of these bolted to the face of the storage box: Turing that giant step into two smaller ones......

I'm leaning towards one of these: https://mountainoffroad.com/collections/hide-a-step They don't have the weird angle, and no plastic/rubber parts

Well. To be honest.... Part of the reason I removed mine was to remove a slight wrinkle I put in it when I hit a stump. I hit it pretty hard as it was below my line of sight and I didn't know it was there. I broke the headlight, and put a kink in the thin strip of steel between the light holes...

I don't have any reference for an A1R bumper, but I recently had to take mine off my A0, and it was pretty heavy.

Wait. I cannot tell if you are joking or not. I'm pretty sure I could park a Jeep on that bumper without reinforcement. It's certainly stronger looking than the body where the existing step is mounted.

Revisited this last night a bit. I noticed with the cab tilted up, that there is a pretty sizable flat spot on the backside of the bumper that could be used to mount something. If a step were mounted there, it would not move when the cab was raised. I think that might make designing something a...

While keeping it simple has definite merit, manually dragging the thing in and out each time and finding a place to store it is complicated. every.time. I'm all for making a complicated investment so that it's simple in the longer term. But, this is basically what I'm doing now in the shop to...

I just happened to have the cab bushing on the passenger side out this week to facilitate swapping in a winch version of the cab mount. Both the upper and lower busing were in pretty good shape, at least visually. I'll make a point to check out the drivers side when I get a chance. I do have a...

Thinking about those pneumatic actuators... My thought was if it's designed for gravity (or maybe a spring) to lower the step, then when the truck had no air, the steps would lower, allowing you to get in to start it. With the hundred or so other projects I have in my head, this will likely...

Yeah. I'm just hoping to get more like steps and less like a ladder....