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Mr__Cob
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Oct 29, 2013

Now towing with a HDT, why didn't I do this years ago

Howdy All, Its been a while since I last posted on this forum been spending a lot of time on a forum that pertains to HDT's Heavy Duty Truck. For the last three years I have been towing a 38 foo...
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Mr__Cob
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Oct 29, 2013
T-10 Parabolic wrote:
Mr Cobb I have a question,, how do you align the king pin with the hitch???? T-10


Howdy T-10,

I have an air ride 5th wheel hitch mounted on the HDT. Because the HDT sits a tad higher then the Dodge, I built a shorter pin box for the trailer. The shorter pin box not only dropped the trailer so that it rode level it shortened the over all lenght of the truck-trailer by 28 inches.

Here's some before and after photos of the hitch-pin box.

Before pin box mod.


After pin box mod.

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