ok thanks...
I think we are going to do something similar, except come in from the side for the ramp storage area, right before the dove tail starts. On my trailer the large ramps ride on a fairly large piece of round stock that rides in kind of a "home-brewed" mount. Seems like you would make this some type of shaft riding in a bearing support, but I guess the crude method has worked for many years. Basically the mounts are like a small section of something like 3 inch angle iron...one edge welded to the rear cross beam and then a hole burned in that for the shaft to ride in, and this shaft if what the ramps piviot on.
Looks like we'll most likely cut the current ramp mounts off or at least a section of them....and then fab up the lip for hte new "stowable" ramps to mount for loading. I think we may be able to avoid some cuts as long as the present mounts don't interfere with having the ramps in the proper position for loading, if they do I guess the troch will have to do its magic work.
couple of things I would have changed on mine if I had the opportunity to do so at the time. (1) Ramp mounts and ramps (2) spare tire setup, (3) marker lights for fenders such that you can see the fenders at night in your mirror (4) tool box mount or space, (5) maybe two additional tie-down d-rings.
Oh...and the crappy center tail light (the light bar with three red lights)...its a very cheap solution and the center socket has already burned out.
I'm going to get a LED three light bar to replace the center lights at the rear, and come up a good way to mount some marker lights (LED) on the fender or fender mounts, fab up for a tool box mount by the trailer jack, and rig for two spare tire mounts that most likely will mount in the stackpocket, and then modify the ramps.
Yea I realize that it would have been money ahead to buy the trailer with these mods up front but I did not have the foresight to see all of that and it would have cost more $$ than I had at the time to use for the purchase.
