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JBarca
Mar 06, 2014Nomad II
I could not see the pics at work today.. oh boy...

That front bolt on both sides is doing nothing right now. It could of been pulled out from the DC frame plate bracket flexing so heavy or like mrekim stated, they over torqued it at the install and did a bad job of tack welding it to boot to hold it in. Odds are high the frame is striped now however it happened and that needs to be dealt with.
As I stated before, do not tow with the DC in place. If you want to leave the frame plate on so the dealer can see up close and personal what his shop did, just take the DC arm yoke bolt out to take the cam arm off and leave the frame plate on. Transfer the chains to back of the WD bars and then tow it. It will look like this then, a standard Reese WD hitch, no DC, just your DC frame bracket will still be on.

BTW, you chain plates are on wrong. They need to be flipped around. With the air gap on the bottom and the chain plate hanging out like that, it even more aggravates the flexing of the DC frame plate.
Like this

There is one piece of maybe good news, by this pic your frame tube has a small radius on the corner and they drilled the hole up above the radius. You may have lucked out there.

Hope this helps and good luck
John

That front bolt on both sides is doing nothing right now. It could of been pulled out from the DC frame plate bracket flexing so heavy or like mrekim stated, they over torqued it at the install and did a bad job of tack welding it to boot to hold it in. Odds are high the frame is striped now however it happened and that needs to be dealt with.
As I stated before, do not tow with the DC in place. If you want to leave the frame plate on so the dealer can see up close and personal what his shop did, just take the DC arm yoke bolt out to take the cam arm off and leave the frame plate on. Transfer the chains to back of the WD bars and then tow it. It will look like this then, a standard Reese WD hitch, no DC, just your DC frame bracket will still be on.

BTW, you chain plates are on wrong. They need to be flipped around. With the air gap on the bottom and the chain plate hanging out like that, it even more aggravates the flexing of the DC frame plate.
Like this

There is one piece of maybe good news, by this pic your frame tube has a small radius on the corner and they drilled the hole up above the radius. You may have lucked out there.

Hope this helps and good luck
John
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