Help with hitch decision
I just ordered a new Grand Design Reflection 318RST 5th wheel (GVWR 13,995) and plan to buy a 2016 GMC 3500 Duramax truck next. The truck has a 6.5' bed. I've spent a week reading up on hitches on...
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face_down wrote:RustyJC wrote:
The geometry of the Reese goosebox is no different than any other gooseneck adapter.
A free body diagram would argue that you are wrong...but that is none of my business.
The relative locations of the gooseneck ball and 5th wheel pin box mount do not change, nor do the vertical and horizontal forces. A force vector diagram would demonstrate that both the goosebox and traditional gooseneck adapter would, therefore, generate the same resultant vector and exert the same forces and moments on the 5th wheel pin box mount.
Rusty
