Specularius wrote:
rhagfo wrote:
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Understand that if you install your old hitch in the new truck, as it came out of the old, and the distance from the bed floor to the rail isn't different between the old and new trucks, you will have the same rail clearance you had on the old truck. The 5er may not be level could be a little nose high, so then we start to deal with that.
The statement in bold is not correct. The depth of the beds on the newer Dodge trucks is deeper, therefore making the clearance between the top of the bed rails and the bottom of the 5th wheel less.
Just how much difference is there now. There is only 1/2" or so between an '83 bed and a '04 bed. That is 21 years age difference.
