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CoffeePat
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Mar 13, 2018

Leveling Pickup bed to the hitch rails

Anyone find a pad or something to put it the pickup bed to build it up so it is closer to level with the hitch mounting rails? The trails are almost an inch high. The pickup bed mats I saw are @ 3/8 of an inch.
I guess I could double them up... Any ideas?

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  • Are you intending to put rubber pads between the hitch and the bottom of the truck bed?! I predict stretched and broken mounting bolts in your future at the minimum. But if you want to persist in this scheme Tractor Supply sells horse stall rubber pads that appear to be about an inch or so thick. Not big enough to cover the full bed, I'd guess, IIRC, that they may be 4 ft square. Look up their website.

    But you could probably reproduce the effect just by stacking an inch or more of flat washers under the hitch around the mounting bolts. Let us know how it goes.