Today I finally got around to welding up the cracks in the front frame horns.  While I was up there, I decided to add this brace to the Saginaw steering setup. 

No, it’s not an original idea - it was suggested by the guys over on EarlyCJ5.com as a way to mitigate some of the effects of the Saginaw box on the early Jeep frames.

It’s cheap enough insurance.  On the frame end is just a bracket from angle iron.  I’m especially happy with my welds on this...I must have lucked into the magic combination of metals, wire speed and voltage settings:

The tube is a length of solid 1/2” steel.

At the steering box end I used a chain-link fence bracket.  It’s a bit softer metal than I’d like, but I just didn’t have the alternate suggestion on hand, which is a Chevy connecting rod.

Everything getting a fresh coat of rattle can black: