5th wheel hitches

Pullrite latch wraps 140 degrees around the pin totally enclosing the pin in the latch. There is only.030" tolerance between the king pin and the latch - minimizing the "bump" felt while towing.


C.B.

I like the wrap around latch that encircles the king pin such as my Reese Elite has and my previous Pullrite Super 5th had. May be some others with similar wrap around patching mechanisms.

I would look at the Blue Ox Super Ride hitch. It is new and I haven't seen any reviews but it looks like it checks most of the boxes: relatively lightweight, 11" of articulation for clearance, rubber shock absorption and about $500 less in cost. One drawback is that it is manual so you have to pivot the hitch rearward before backing. Very interesting design.

stevem4134 wrote:
While this may be a little off topic. The question I have is not related to a specific brand of hitch (at least I don't think so). What is the better, safer and more reliable hitch: one with jaws (single or double) or one with a bar that goes all the way across the pin?

You could argue that one jaw could fail on the B&W and the pin would still be held in place. So that would mean the B&W has redundancy.

While this may be a little off topic. The question I have is not related to a specific brand of hitch (at least I don't think so). What is the better, safer and more reliable hitch: one with jaws (single or double) or one with a bar that goes all the way across the pin?

You could buy a less expensive manual sliding hitch. And use it when you really need to. But you would have to be aware of your turns. Or a more expensive auto slider so you would never have to worry about it.
Your 27 footer is probably not all that heavy and an air ride hitch or air ride pin box would be more a luxury than a necessity. All just a matter of how you want to spend your dollars and how many of them.
All IMHO of course.

Licreek wrote:
thanks. whats an SCT?

https://www.sctflash.com

It's a tuner where it can get custom tunes for the mods that you do, make the engine run cooler and transmission shift better. The enemy of the 6.0 is heat. Read through the ford-trucks forum for a few hours.

thanks. whats an SCT?

Since you have the 6.0, first thing I'd do is get an SCT with custom tune, block the EGR, replace the downpipe and put in head studs. After that I'd put in a B&W turnaround ball and buy the Anderson ultimate hitch. It's offset so you should be good on your cab, not sure on older fifth wheels tho. Either way, look at that system so you don't have to worry about rails in your bed or anything.

The truck I have is 06 ford quad cab King Ranch 6.0DS. I am starting from scratch, I will need to buy the pin box rails hitch the whole kit and ka-boodle. the fw we are looking to buy is a 05 27' prowler and it is the squared off flat front nose. just not sure if a fw this size needs the Reese sidewinder airride unit, just the hitch is like 2 grand? But we are planning on going full time so if it helps with the parking stress ill buy it.