corvettekent wrote:
RussOnTheRoad wrote:
I'm learning about 5th wheels and trucks, thinking about taking that plunge after I sell my Class C.
I've heard about an issue where somebody with a fiver had a problem: when making tight turns his pin box would hit against the truck bed walls and he was not able to fix this with the standard adjustments.
When I heard about that it started me thinking about all the things I don't know about pin boxes, hitches, trucks etc. How can I be certain to avoid the same problem this other gent had? My first thought was that with any fiver or truck I'm considering I should take some measurements. For the fiver I should measure from the ground up to the lowest point on the pin box and on the truck I should measure from the ground to the highest point of the truck bed wall. Perhaps it would be more important to measure from the pin of the pin box to where it attaches to a given hitch? (I suppose tailgates can be a problem too but I've seen fixes for that.) What is the rule of thumb about how much clearance there should be between the pin box and truck bed walls? How should I be thinking in regard to pin box/hitch/truck bed wall height? Is there a primer somewhere that covers stuff like this that a fiver wannabe like myself can refer to?
If the pin box is longer than half the width of the inside truck bed you could have this problem but that would be a really long pin box.
X2,
I can't believe that it took this long to correctly understand the question, and to give a a good answer. Yes the issue was correctly understood, but not a good reason.
