Flip Neck Box Mechanical RGN Question:

near impossible

 

You put a stack of washers or even better some nut standoffs behind the plate to space it out from the bumper, then your oversize sign can tuck in behind the plate. Some people take a piece of Aluminum and make a backing plate for the license plate, which is a good idea. Helps keep the plate from getting bent up.

All you need is a half inch of space behind the license plate so you can put your oversize sign behind it.

 

You don't need 3 blocks, you need one big block at the end of the frame.



This block is too thin, and being too thin it's letting the neck drop down low. With your bags dumped and the trailer on the ground, neck still attached, you want a block of wood that barely fits in there.

 

Your trailer is cooked homie. That damage to the main frame rails is not repairable. Best way to fix this is to completely replace the deck section of the trailer.

The main frame is compromised.

I have had an XL trailer snap in half on me before.

 

You need a proper set of ramps, it is going to make your life a lot easier, this is the set I have on the Red Express, they wrap all the way down over the end of the frame so if it is too low I can push back against the neck and lift it and it will roll up over the back onto the ramps and up the 5th wheel.

Your ramps should be directly in line with your 5th wheel plate at rest. It is one long smooth transition and the neck rolls up it like butter. Also super handy if you need to get under a conventional trailer and some dingleberry has left the landing legs cranked too low or the feet have pressed through the parking lot and sank in.


Above you can see the before, this was all the way back in February of 2014 when I was doing this so the pictures are a bit grainy.


You can see how much it rounded the end of the frame out, and that there is plenty of room between the frame and trailer neck going down the road here.