OffTheRoadAgain wrote:
I recently got a killer deal on an F250 to pull the 5er that I'm buying soon but I've run into a snag and could use some advice. The truck has a gooseneck hitch in the bed. Not a Companion turnover ball; rather, a little plate that the hitch ball rotates down into. It looks a lot like this:
Am I correct that this will prevent the use of a Companion 5th wheel hitch because it's not a Companion turnover ball? Or will that hitch work with any gooseneck ball?
If not, are there any other gooseneck-ball-to-5th-wheel hitches? For many reasons, I'd like to avoid hooking the RV itself up to the gooseneck ball with an adapter on the kingpin. Am I going to be stuck removing the gooseneck hitch and its frame mount so I can install conventional 5th wheel rails?
Thanks for your advice.
When I got my old Dodge 3500 dually, there was a hitch quite similar to that one already installed in the bottom of the box. I installed a Husky 15K fifth wheel hitch right over top of it, no trouble at all. I could pull four pins and remove the fifth wheel hitch, and the gooseneck ball was readily available for use. The rails for the fifth wheel hitch did not interfere with using a gooseneck trailer. I even built a 1 1/2 inch spacer to fit over the rails and hauled a huge truck camper on there!
If I really HAD to have a flat floor, it took about 10 minutes to remove the four bolts that held the rails in.
