The Nissan Path

So I noticed my running boards were sagging especially towards the rear, worse on the driver side. Not sure why but I’m second owner of it so not sure what may have caused it. Checked undeneath and the 3 brackets that hold it on aren’t he beefiest bits of steel and the 6 nuts is that hold it on weren’t terribly tight. I thought about taking them down, putting them on a vice and bending them back to 90 degrees to eliminate the sag but then thought, how about jack up the bracket and see if I can bend it back up. Well it worked great!

Here’s the before. I noticed a bit of a gap between the running board and the rocker.


Here’s the jack lifting and bending the bracket back up to where it should be:


And here is the after. Gap closed, sag and twist eliminated, running board is nice and straight once again.

Thank you for the write up and pics. Is the strength comprised after doing this?

I don’t know to be honest but I can update if they sag again. I wasn’t leaving them as they were, my kids are little and I don’t step on it to get in and out so it should be ok I think.