bpounds wrote:
It is the design of the fiver that causes this. Not a truck issue. My Cougar is the same way. It got annoying, and I thought even a little dangerous, to have to get out and close the tailgate in the middle of hitching and unhitching. I solved the issue by going with a Vee gate.
The axle should be the same distance from the rear in a short bed and long bed truck in the Ford. The extra length is forward of the wheel well. But can't say how your hitch was installed in the old truck.
That is what confused me as well. I never used a slider in the SB 2012 silverado and was able to hitch up with no issues at all and had tons of clearance. I always thought that a LB truck is only longer from the cab to the axle. According to the rv dealer, where I purchased the reese hitch from, said that a LB is also longer from the axle to the tailgate; mistified me as well.
