5th Wheel hitch

[TOMMY G]

Hey Guys I need some help. I am planning on installing a new 16K Pullrite hitch with Super rails today in my truck. Have any of you done this before? The instructions are not the best, but it doesn't look to difficult. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

[my3wags]

measure twice and cut one !! LOL I've installed 3 of them so far. Pretty much straight forward. On the last two I installed, I picked up a steal templet from the dealer that my buddy bought the hitch from. I guess the rv dealers get them from pullrite for quicker install. This templet made it much easier but you dont need it.

Good luck
Big E

[TOMMY G]

Thanks for the words of encouragment Big E. I am gonna give it try. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] I am going to measure and measure and measure. Don't want any mistakes with cutting big holes in my truck. See ya
Tommy G

[Armypilot]

One tip I can give after doing mine is:

Put a piece of masking tape over each hole on your mount plates. With a pen, draw a vertical line and a horizontal line (aiming cross)on the tape that covers the pin hole so that where the two lines cross is the exact center of the mount plate pin hole receptacle.

So now you should have your 2 plates with two pin receptacles in each covered with a large piece of masking tape with an X marking the exact center of each receptacle hole. Make sense so far?

Now mount the plates with 2 bolts each so that they are tight and in place but easily taken back off. One thing, mark the frame fore and aft, up and down as the paltes can move more than an 1/8" as you loosen and tighten the hardware.

Do all your bed measurements 2 or 3 times. Now use a center punch and make a punch mark where your small drill bit will make the starter hole. Drill down through the bed ensuring you are square to the bed in both directions. (make sure drill is long enough that it will go through the bed material and down and puncture the tape covering your receptacle wholes on the mounting plates. Drill all 4 starter holes.

Remove plates, examine where the pilot hole drill punctured the tape in realtion to the crosshairs you drew on the tape. If it is off by an 1/8th to one side and down an 1/8th as an example, just make the same adjustments up on the corresponding truck bed pilot hole, re-centerpunch over 1/8th and down an 1/8th and re-drill your pilot hole. make all 4 adjustments to your hole markings, circle the hole in the tape on each, remount the plates,put a sharpie marker X over original pilot hole to denote its not to be used. Re-drill your holes, then re-examine your tape crosshairs. Again make sure the plates are on in the same exact place prior to re-drilling the bed.

Once satisfied that your pilot whole is the exact center of the underlying mount plate receptacle hole, drill your 4 larger holes with a hole say using the applicable pilot holes.

You can do this several times, I had to do only once, this will ensure perfectly centered holes though and well worth the effort. Your pilot holes of course will disappear with the larger hole saw takes them out so do not worry.

Hopefully this is understandable, it is sometimes hard without pictures to describe.