Short Box + 5'VR = Disaster????

Yamaki wrote:
I got the idea, and maybe it was simply from a minority of posts about cranking it in too large of an angle, from pics and posts of short box truck cabs and 5'vr front ends coming in contact.

So, before I made a big mistake I wanted to make sure there was a way to make it all work, if it could.

From what I've gleaned from the posts here I can make it work. Knowing is better than Not Knowing and what better place to find out than here at RV.net?

I've towed fivers for 25 yrs and owned nothing but short bed trucks. Never had a problem. Started before sliding hitches were available, finally bought one about 10 yrs ago, but never used it, so switched back to the old fixed legs.

Since you already have a short bed truck, but don't have the hitch, I recommend the Reese Revolution (aka Sidewinder) pin box and you won't need any type of sliding hitch. Plus the fiver won't cut corners as bad and it will respond better when backing into a spot.

You will probably want to remove the above rail tool box and replace it with a flush one.