Ram 3500 4x4 Superglide setup questions

My bed didn't have the factory pucks so I bought the Chrysler kit and installed it myself. Also bought the picture frame from them. How wide is your FW and are the front corners rounded or cut in? I needed all this because of short bed, flat front FW and 101 inches wide.

I just measured mine. My hitch plate is about 1 3/4 to 2 inches below my bed rail BUT I also have the optional low profile feet. The feet go between the picture frame and the hitch. The low profile feet drop the overall hitch height by an 1 1/2.

From the face of my pin box plate to the underside of my FW it's 11 inches. 11 minus the 2 inches my hitch plate sits below my bed rail gives me about 9 inches of bed clearance to underside of FW give or take. I thought I had measured about 8.5 at one time but it depends on how it's sitting when hitched. i may be a little on the high side of rail clearances but I do a fair amount of off road maneuvering and have backed into a few wild looking areas so I like clearance.

I had the standard feet when I bought the hitch. I installed everything and then dug the FW up onto wood blocks until level. At that point I first knew that I had too much rail clearance. When I figured that I woukd drop an 1 1/2 with the optional $80 feet I then subtracted an 1 1/2 from the blocks of wood that were under the tires and determined the amount of lift needed to level up. The first thing I did was go to 16 inch LT tires and new wheels. I then flipped the axles, added a Dexter ezflex and wet bolts.

No matter what the squat is you need to go by the bed rail clearance. I'm runing an 18K superglide with a 3500 Ram. The squat will figure into how level it rides but again bed rail to FW clearance is set first then level the rig which can be a matter of moving the shackle a hole or so, adding a correct track? for a couple inches, flipping axles or going all the way to an additional sub frame.

I forgot to state the 5th Wheel...I am looking at the CruiserAire 25rl. Yes that 1,330 hitch weight was just published weight...

Hi, thanks for the reply. I was mentioning the hitch weight because it is fairly light and wont bring much "squat" to the truck to help bring the nose down. I have read the problem with the Superglide is there is no hitch adjustments for raising or lowering...

Nose high has noting to do with hitch weight per se....it is about getting trailer level when hitched to truck

That all depends on truck height/trailer height/type of pin box and adjustments that can be made to hitch/pin box/trailer suspension

Either by raising hitch in bed of truck, lowering pin box in trailer or doing 'mods' to trailer suspension to raise trailer height.




That 1,330# hitch weight (pin weight) sounds like the mfgs published "DRY" pin weight based on DRY trailer weight (Unladen vehicle weight---UVW)

What is 5th wheel that you are purchasing/have purchased?
Typically 20%-25% of trailer actual camp ready weight is what WET pin weight will be.