Scary fifth wheel/gooseneck hitch
Just looked at a clean '97 F-350 XLT Super Cab dually for sale locally. It has a home made (?) Gooseneck/5th wheel hitch. Four foot by two and a half foot 1/2 inch steel plate, bolted entirely to the ...
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Jeeze ... in lots of cases thats how we did it years ago.
I put 360k miles on a F350 DRW long bed std cab years ago pulling heavy GN trailers commercially at 25-28k GCW. This truck was on the road multi state weekly.
The 5/8" plate was bolted to the trucks bed frame. We usually welded the bed frame with brackets to the trucks main frame in four places 12"-18" forward and aft of the plate.
Those old GN trailers didn't have torque tubes back then so that stiffened the bed some what to counter twisting from the GN trailer.
Yeay...todays GN and 5th wheel hitches are a better deal for that kind of use.
I put 360k miles on a F350 DRW long bed std cab years ago pulling heavy GN trailers commercially at 25-28k GCW. This truck was on the road multi state weekly.
The 5/8" plate was bolted to the trucks bed frame. We usually welded the bed frame with brackets to the trucks main frame in four places 12"-18" forward and aft of the plate.
Those old GN trailers didn't have torque tubes back then so that stiffened the bed some what to counter twisting from the GN trailer.
Yeay...todays GN and 5th wheel hitches are a better deal for that kind of use.
