Me Again wrote:
...You can not put the hitch down the the bed floor with gooseneck and hold it up at the same time...
I've got no dog in this fight, and don't want one. But, it looks to me from the installation diagrams, that you first pull upward on the ball, and then 2 setscrew lock the telescoping shank. So at that point they are locked together and pin weight would be transferred to the gooseneck ball. At least to the extent those two setscrew resist slipping.
But that whole thing is not going to resist twisting. The Anderson ball is offset from the gooseneck ball, so there will be some twist even when the load is static. Then there will be much greater twisting when the truck accelerates and brakes. That dynamic load is what will dent the truck bed.
Doesn't look like great engineering to me, but it's not my dog.
