Does anyone make mounting hardware for the Mopar factory side steps?

Totally unsuccessful trip to Grainger. The lady was actually an a-hole. She was kind of laughing at the fact that I was trying to mount rivet nuts myself and was basically saying they’ll never be secure enough when mounted with a hand tool and an air tool costs thousands of dollars. Wasn’t helpful in trying to figure out what size I needed, didn’t walk 2 steps out the door to look at the hole. Said I should take it to a shop and have it done the right way.

I’m not a dummy and I’m fairly mechanically inclined; this CANNOT be that hard, can it?? 😂
 
wborisenok said:
Totally unsuccessful trip to Grainger. The lady was actually an a-hole. She was kind of laughing at the fact that I was trying to mount rivet nuts myself and was basically saying they’ll never be secure enough when mounted with a hand tool and an air tool costs thousands of dollars. Wasn’t helpful in trying to figure out what size I needed, didn’t walk 2 steps out the door to look at the hole. Said I should take it to a shop and have it done the right way.

I’m not a dummy and I’m fairly mechanically inclined; this CANNOT be that hard, can it?? 😂
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Alright, I'm pretty much done with this. How many nutserts and bolts do you need? I also have the limited use setting tools. Count them up, send me a private message with the quantity and a shipping address and I'll get them on the way.
 
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mrblaine said:
Alright, I'm pretty much done with this. How many nutserts and bolts do you need? I also have the limited use setting tools. Count them up, send me a private message with the quantity and a shipping address and I'll get them on the way.
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That is extremely generous of you but I also don’t want to be a bother!! I apologize for this whole thing. Truly thought it’d be a simple swap and something off my laundry list of things to do to my Jeep that I could manage myself.
 
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That is extremely generous of you but I also don’t want to be a bother!! I apologize for this whole thing. Truly thought it’d be a simple swap and something off my laundry list of things to do to my Jeep that I could manage myself.
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I literally have 1000's of various size nutserts and more than a few setting tools. It isn't a bother.
 
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For what it's worth, these are the directions that came with the steps I bought new (very bad photo copies) for our 2004.

They used bent threaded rods (poor description) to go through the frame into the step brackets.

Nutserts seem to be a better alternative and Mr Blaine will get you the correct ones. Sorry no part numbers on the sheets.

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DB04RedJeep said:
For what it's worth, these are the directions that came with the steps I bought new (very bad photo copies) for our 2004.

They used bent threaded rods (poor description) to go through the frame into the step brackets.

Nutserts seem to be a better alternative and Mr Blaine will get you the correct ones. Sorry no part numbers on the sheets.

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There are at least two versions, that one and then the earlier one that has just nutserts with bolts at 4 places per support. The OEM bolts are 8mm and they are the same hole size as the 5/16-18.
 
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