short bed - sliding hitch vs sidewinder?
Newbie to 5th wheel arena. I'm in the throes of figuring out my next rig. I'm planning to go with a short bed "half-ton" (nay-sayers, please hold your tongue this time...already hashed that out ...
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I have sidewinder and like it. I would not be without a slider or a sidewinder with a 6ft bed. I have been in several instances where I would have hit with the combo in my sig had I not had the sidewinder. By having the sidewinder, it allows me to have the hitch mounted where the kingpin is 2 inches in front of the rear axle (aka long a long bed) and gives me more weight in the middle/front of my truck vs all on the back. My front axle weight increased about 50lbs when hitched up with 3300 on the pin. That being said, if Pullrite made a superglide for the ram pucks, I would have looked hard at that...downside is the massive weight of the unit
