I was under the impression my 2010 17B had the recall mod completed. Maybe not? I thought the doubler on the inside of the frame was the part added in the recall kit. If it's not, how in the world can the brace be added to the outside of my frame? Looks to me like the angle bracket to the fiberglass body is in the way.
Just to be clear, the "second recall" which Higgy was asking about does not apply to the 17', or any other model beyond the 19'. It is not the recall of mitre-jointed 3" frames that this thread is about.
In this recall, a plate is added to the outside of the joint; the plate on the inside was part of the original frame construction.
2010 is clearly before the 17' switched from a 3" frame to 4" frame, and the photo clearly shows the mitred joint, so this does appear to be a trailer covered by the recall.
But yes, it looks like the "mending plate" (Reace's term) which is to be added to the outside of the joint would overlap with the body mount bracket which is just ahead of the joint on this 17B. In general, the affected trailers had the body mount bolt go right through the frame rail (which is a bad, and one of the reasons for the need for the second recall of the 19') instead of using a bracket like that - if you look at Reace's
example photo of a 17' in post #2, there's no body mount bracket and the bolt goes through the frame. I just went through this entire thread again: there are few photos of 17' frames, but none of the others show a body mount bracket.
It's good to have the body mount bracket (although in this case it's in the way), but it's surprising on an older 17' and the welding of the bracket looks... interesting. Was it perhaps added at some point after the trailer was built? It's also possible that this was an unusual configuration which was factory-supplied but wasn't how they were normally done at the time - there may have been some experimentation going on, or a brief production run of a different design.
I have some ideas of how a reinforcing plate and the body mount could be built, but I think it would be better for Escape to handle that. Although Reace is no longer available, there should be someone there who can manage this specific situation. If it were my trailer, I would already have sent an e-mail query (with at least the second photo) to Escape. They should also have records of which specific trailers (by VIN) have had the recall upgrade done.