5th wheel hitch in truck bed with bed liner
I just bought a used 2009 Dodge 3500 with a plastic badliner. It has a goose neck hook up in the bed. I have a B&M hitch for the goose neck that came out of my old truck which had no bed liner. My q...
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I have a 2006 F250 I purchased a little over a year ago. It came with a plastic bed-liner and a B&W turnover ball hitch. I wanted to install a B&W companion 5th wheel hitch as I was also buying a 5th wheel trailer. I called B&W to confirm that the companion could not be installed over the plastic bed-liner and that is what they said. No you cannot or at least should not do it.
Since the previous owner had also installed a Transfer Flow Fuel tank tool box combo I couldn't remove the bed-liner. Instead I used a cutting wheel and cut out just the section of the bed-liner where the footpads for the Companion hitch were going to come into contact with the metal truck bed. I keep those pieces of plastic and when I remove the Companion every winter I place the plastic pieces that I removed back in their original position and use a little black duct tape to secure them in place. Looks and works fine.
Someday maybe I'll pull that Transfer flow tank and get rid of that cheap plastic liner but until I do this solution works.
Since the previous owner had also installed a Transfer Flow Fuel tank tool box combo I couldn't remove the bed-liner. Instead I used a cutting wheel and cut out just the section of the bed-liner where the footpads for the Companion hitch were going to come into contact with the metal truck bed. I keep those pieces of plastic and when I remove the Companion every winter I place the plastic pieces that I removed back in their original position and use a little black duct tape to secure them in place. Looks and works fine.
Someday maybe I'll pull that Transfer flow tank and get rid of that cheap plastic liner but until I do this solution works.
