ok, im thinking about getting a 5ver sometime, a camper as some of you have read on other posts. my first question is....


is there a 5th wheel hitch that when i tke it out of the bed there is *nothing* sticking up that would rip or tear a pice of dry wall? like some kinda flush mount system. im sure i could take the rails out if i went with a stanard one, but how much work is that? basicly, when the hitch isent in the bed, i dont want anything in there. am i asking too much?

second, i know its a bad ideal to take a 5th wheel trailer and hook it up to a ball like a goosneck, is there any way to hook a gooseneck up to a 5th wheel hitch? or can you install both in a bed?


thanks fer all your input. blue skies and tail winds.

 

our ford truck we built a custom recever hitch in the box and you pin it under-neith the box, but ours is a hoist bed with stock pickup box so its easy to pin.

 

Well I had the same delemia. I wanted a flat bed. After searching and asking, I found the B&W hitch. I purchased from Tweetys.com. its a bit more then the normal fith but its the best thing in the world for me. the main part is a turnoverball gn that bolts on to the truck without drilling anything but a 4" hole in the box. The second part the fith wheel part just drops inot the place where the gooseneck ball normally would sit. tighten a couple bolts and your ready. I see you have a longbed too. You need this hitch there GRRRRRRRRRRRRRReat.

 

I'll emphatically second the motion for the B&W hitch. The best of both worlds and I can put the fiver companion on or off of the truck by myself in 5 minutes. I haul my 10k fiver around as well as a 24' gooseneck ..... performs equally well for both!

 

Another solution is to get a hitch that the rails mount front to rear in the box. My DSP hitch mounts this way, the rails are 3/4 inch thick and you could either put a sheet of 3/4 ply with cut outs for the rails or I usually just use a couple of 2X4X8foot and sit the sheeting on these.

 

I have the hidden hitch variety of the BW that guys are talking about. Before I went to a flatbed, my only complaint is that the u-bolts through the box for the safety chains stick up about 3/8". I had to use dunnage to keep things (drywall specifically) up off the box floor anyway. I don't know if the BW hitch is better designed when it comes to that.

 

My safety chain loops where in the bottome of the ridge in the flore so they where still below flush. I never had any isues with the B&W in my last truck.

There is a new superglide hich that has 4 pins that mount it instead of the 2 rails and they are below the bed flore so nothing is above the flore when removed. Its retardedly expensive but its an option.

http://www.pullrite.com/superglide_24.htm

 

The B&W is really slick. I think my safety loops stick up just slightly above the ridges, probably due to the bedliner. I'm sure I could smack them with a little sledge and they would be flush, or you could just take them out.

I like the hitch. Good up and down, and back and forth range of adjustablity, and it is easy to see that the jaws are locked around the groove on the pin. It also pivots 4 ways, which to me is a must.

The only downside is that you have to use a 3/4 socket to remove it, as opposed to just pulling pins on a conventional hitch. I always carry a torque wrench and a set of deep wells in the truck anyway, so for me it's not a big deal.

 

I should have mentioned that there is another solution to needing a flat floor other than getting a hitch without rails...

A lot of people just cut some plywood to fit the floor of the truck, cut out to fit around the rails. Toss a rubber bed mat over the top and it would look good, and protect the bed.