i ground down the welds at the plate & re welded them just to be safe because of all the people the had them bend. mine seemed fine, but i didn't want to take the chance. i posted all about them for someone else in the toyota forum. here's the link
http://www.streetsourcemag.com/forum/topic.aspx?method=reply&topic_id=90048&forum_id=20&forum_title=&M=True&S=True
good luck.