is There Anyone Out There That Can Make Me Up A Plate With A Gooseneck Ball On It For My 3500

 

I'd Buy one

 

MONEYS TIGHT RIGHT NOW OR I WOULD

 

If I am understanding what your looking for, they make them, they are called a king pin adapter or an inverted ball. I see them in my master catalog but have never had any request for them to find out the difference.

 

THEIRS ONLY ONE PLACE AROUND HERE THAT SELLS THEM AND INSTALLS THEM AND THEY WANT TO CHARGE CLOSE TO A THOUSAND

 

Iam Looking For A Gooseneck Hitch To Mount In The Bed Of My Truck

 

i got my b&w turnover ball for around $350, and installed it my self, just another option if you want it

 

I have a reese gooseneck hitch compleate kit. I used it about 3 or 4 times before I took it out of my of old truck when I bought my 04 and ended up buying a B&W. I will sell it to you for $150 + shipping. If you are interested PM me.

 

Making and installing a gooseneck plate is about as first grade as it gets.

Why don't you make it yourself??

About a 32 x 40 piece of 5/8 plate with about a foot square piece welded in the center to double up in the area of the ball makes a pretty decent one.

Cut a hole for the ball shank in each piece before welding them together.

Get a Hi-rise 30,000 pound ball and toss the lock washer.

Weld the nut to the bottom of the plate.

Tighten the ball into the nut and tack weld it on two sides, so that it can't loosen.

Four or five 5/8 grade 8 bolts through each rail and you are done.

Built this way, it will wear out many trucks.

 

U got that right.....

Tx

 

Is there an easy way to improve upon that idea and make the ball removeable? My uncle had that setup in his 94 , but i fear the ball getting in the road sometimes , as it did for him.

 

weld a big nut on instead of welding the ball on.... then you can unscrew the ball.....

 

And pass on the grade 8 nuts. If you look at all the commercial hitches they come with either 4 or 5, don't remember right off. Grade 8 bolts are to brittle when flexed and will snap, and a well worked hitch will flex em.

 

cant do it myself , lack of tools

 

My truck has a 1 inch thick plate that extends to the rails. It's a good-ole boy hitch, western style. I bought a goose neck equipment trailer for it and I needed chain loops added to the mount. The trailer dealer intaller drove it into their garage and came out later to the showroom to get a guy saying 'you got to look at this...'. He came back to tell me he could not drill it to mount the hold downs. It was way to heavy and thick for him. Soooo he welded it to the 1 inch edge of the plate.......

The size of the plate is 1x12x about 4 feet. Held in place with 4 1" bolts.

If you want I can take some pictures and post them if you want....

Hodiesel