I ran a MORE steering brace......
that didn't prevent me from de-laminating the steel layers around the steering box area. I thought my front bumper bracket would help reinforce the area......I was dead wrong.
in my experience, steering braces do not work, and frame rail side-plating does not work, since there are interior layers that cannot benefit from bumper bracket reinforcement.
imho, the only way to reinforce the area, is to "bridge" the outside and inside of the frame rail.....you have to "section" the layers, outter and inner wall.....essentially "I-beam" the damn thing.......