Fifth Airborne Sidewinder problem
Just installed topic title by my lonesome without forklift, etc. Anyone wanting to know how pm me. But that's not why I am posting. Ran into a small, actually large problem when done. The dista...
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Beaker wrote:Some people have trimmed the outer portion of the brackets that hold the pin box, but that is because they can hit the sides of the pickup bed on tight turns and they only cut the horizontal portion, not the vertical part.
The "outer portion of the brackets that hold the pin box" are called the wings. If I could cut 3" off horizontally, that would allow the turret and pinbox to install 3" higher solving my problem.
But I need "someone in the know" to tell me that it is structually sound to do it.
I can't imagine that removing 3" would be OK unless new wings were welded on higher. But call Reese, they must have had this issue already. The Sidewinder/Revolution is available as a factory option on some brands and models, so this shouldn't be a surprise issue.
