OOPS!
I tell myself over and over, go with your gut instinct. Then I let people talk me into stupid stuff.
Got all ready to pull out the FLD120, this morning, so I could rear hook it.
Stop. Backup.
Yesterday, removed the rear crossmember, so we could move the Z303 forward on the Pete's frame, for better weight distribution. Towed the NPR last night, with no trouble.
O.K., back to this morning.
I figured the FLD would be a bit much, without the rear crossmember. Planning to rear hitch, I aired it up. Just at the point of getting a little wrecker, to drag it out, my boss tells me to grab the front end, so I can try out the bus bars, and see what it scales.
I get back to the shop, and the boss notices that his brand new stainless taillight boxes aren't hanging level anymore. After some careful measurements, I determined that the bottom of the frame kicked out 3/8" on the left rail, and 3/4" on the right rail.
Now I'm mad. If I'd done it my way, there would have been no trouble. AND somehow, what happend is my fault, even though I just did what I was told.
After fabbing a frame spacer, and spending a couple hours with a ratchet boomer, and chains, I'm back to square 1. Among other things, I got both ends of my new offset/dropout crossmember done, did the test fit, and bolted in the left section. Hopfully, tomorrow I can finish that, so the rig is, at least, useable.
On the upside, the bus bars, and short forks are low enough to get under the absurd Freightshaker wrap-under bumper cover, the axle on low-pro tires, aaaannd around the Drip-troit front sum oilpan.
