Running Board Install question

[kxkaiser]

When installing running boards that attached to the pinch weld, what have folks done regarding the protecting the pinch weld area that the bolt runs through and where the bracket mounts on the back.

Does adding rubber washer or a rock guard tape help prevent anything?

 

[Noneck]

I bought stainless steel bolts, then heat shrink wrapped them and put a nylon washer on each side of the pinch weld. Just removed mine after a year and no marring of the paint that I could see.

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[Loudram]

Honestly, I didn't do anything. They've only been on a month or so. I'm curious what others have found after some time to.

 

[Nick14]

I used stainless bolts, lock nuts & washers. I didn't do anything else. We don't salt much here in Tennessee so I didn't do anything else.

 

[goldeneyee]

Ditto on Stainless Nylock Nuts, Bolts and Washers....

 

[Tipicreeper]

Honestly, I didn't do anything. They've only been on a month or so. I'm curious what others have found after some time to.

That is one FINE lookin' truck!
I didn't do anything to mine either.

 

[JohnnyMac]

I sprayed some of the spray undercoating on those spots after I got it all installed. Seems to have protected it all from corrosion pretty good.