5th wheel hitch in truck bed with bed liner

[rcpilot731]

I just bought a used 2009 Dodge 3500 with a plastic badliner. It has a goose neck hook up in the bed. I have a B&M hitch for the goose neck that came out of my old truck which had no bed liner.
My question is: Should I cut the bed lined out where the hitch goes or just put it on top of bed liner.

Thanks

[gaspusher]

See if you can find install directions for hitch or look them up on web and see what they say. For me I rather have metal to metal contact with truck bed and rails, so there is no give and better clamping force of the bolts between the two parts( bed & rail)

[jerem0621]

rhagfo wrote:

jerem0621 wrote:
I've Never had a problem with drop in bedliners.

It's not like stuff magically sticks to the spray in bedliners. If you have unsecured cargo in your bed with a spray in bedliner it's still going to roll around. Main difference to me is that the spray in bedliners don't have the cargo management features that a good drop in liner gives. I may be the only person in the world who actually uses the board notches in a drop in bedliner but they are awesome features I would not be without.

Never mind the fact that the bed doesn't get dented when I drop a tool or something on a bedliners.

I have also heard all my life about bedliners rusting beds out. I have yet to experience that in my experience. I have seen rusted out beds...but I haven't seen them directly due to a bedliners.

I'm going against the grain here. I like drop in bed liner.

Thanks!

Jeremiah

:h

Most new truck beds have board notches in them so spray-in makes even more since.

Thanks for the info Russ,

I'll check some of the new beds out.. Maybe I have just missed that.

Thanks!

Jeremiah

[rhagfo]

jerem0621 wrote:
I've Never had a problem with drop in bedliners.

It's not like stuff magically sticks to the spray in bedliners. If you have unsecured cargo in your bed with a spray in bedliner it's still going to roll around. Main difference to me is that the spray in bedliners don't have the cargo management features that a good drop in liner gives. I may be the only person in the world who actually uses the board notches in a drop in bedliner but they are awesome features I would not be without.

Never mind the fact that the bed doesn't get dented when I drop a tool or something on a bedliners.

I have also heard all my life about bedliners rusting beds out. I have yet to experience that in my experience. I have seen rusted out beds...but I haven't seen them directly due to a bedliners.

I'm going against the grain here. I like drop in bed liner.

Thanks!

Jeremiah

:h

Most new truck beds have board notches in them so spray-in makes even more since.

[jerem0621]

I've Never had a problem with drop in bedliners.

It's not like stuff magically sticks to the spray in bedliners. If you have unsecured cargo in your bed with a spray in bedliner it's still going to roll around. Main difference to me is that the spray in bedliners don't have the cargo management features that a good drop in liner gives. I may be the only person in the world who actually uses the board notches in a drop in bedliner but they are awesome features I would not be without.

Never mind the fact that the bed doesn't get dented when I drop a tool or something on a bedliners.

I have also heard all my life about bedliners rusting beds out. I have yet to experience that in my experience. I have seen rusted out beds...but I haven't seen them directly due to a bedliners.

I'm going against the grain here. I like drop in bed liner.

Thanks!

Jeremiah

[ventrman]

I would recommend cutting out a Space in the Bed-liner for the Hitch.

[C7XR7]

I have a 2006 F250 I purchased a little over a year ago. It came with a plastic bed-liner and a B&W turnover ball hitch. I wanted to install a B&W companion 5th wheel hitch as I was also buying a 5th wheel trailer. I called B&W to confirm that the companion could not be installed over the plastic bed-liner and that is what they said. No you cannot or at least should not do it.

Since the previous owner had also installed a Transfer Flow Fuel tank tool box combo I couldn't remove the bed-liner. Instead I used a cutting wheel and cut out just the section of the bed-liner where the footpads for the Companion hitch were going to come into contact with the metal truck bed. I keep those pieces of plastic and when I remove the Companion every winter I place the plastic pieces that I removed back in their original position and use a little black duct tape to secure them in place. Looks and works fine.

Someday maybe I'll pull that Transfer flow tank and get rid of that cheap plastic liner but until I do this solution works.

[Ram4Sam]

rcpilot731 wrote:
I just bought a used 2009 Dodge 3500 with a plastic badliner. It has a goose neck hook up in the bed. I have a B&M hitch for the goose neck that came out of my old truck which had no bed liner.
My question is: Should I cut the bed lined out where the hitch goes or just put it on top of bed liner.

Thanks

From the B&W install instructions......

"NOTICE
: If truck is equipped with a removable bed liner
or mat, it should be removed or it must be cut to allow the
base to directly connect with the bed. It is acceptable to
install the RV base over a sprayin bed liner."

Sam

[phillyg]

The instructions I used for my Reese universal-type rails specifically stated the rails COULD NOT ride on a plastic bed liner, but on top of sprayed in liners was okay.

[Old-Biscuit]

Remove that plastic bedliner and throw it away

Either go with naked bed or have a spray in liner done. That plastic liner is just a rust promoter

[Cummins12V98]

Berliners are a POS. Chuck it and either leave it bare or get a spray in liner. Everything slides around with a bed liner.

[rhagfo]

edatlanta wrote:
I threw the bed liner that came with my truck away since no one I knew wanted it and then had a spray in liner installed. Then my B&W Companion was installed. No problem of any kind since and that was several years ago.

Best suggestion!!!!
Drop in Bed Liners are the worst thing for your truck bed, no dents , but lots of rust.

[Coach-man]

The bed of your truck is sheet metal! To give it strenght it is bent, corregated, the installation of my bed rails has tabs that go between the folds of the bed so wheb you tighten down on the bolts the sheet metal will not colapse. How do you install those tabs without cutting the liner? If not installed, the sheet metal will colapse, or not tightened enough?? You are hauling a lot of weight behind you, you really want to "get it right"!

[allen8106]

vinr wrote:
I have a Ram 2500 with a B&W Gooseneck Companion hitch installed by the dealer on top of the bed liner.

Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.

[edatlanta]

I threw the bed liner that came with my truck away since no one I knew wanted it and then had a spray in liner installed. Then my B&W Companion was installed. No problem of any kind since and that was several years ago.

[RustyJC]

That's why there are 2 sets of holes in the Companion 5th wheel adapter post. The lower set compensates for the thickness of a bed liner.

Rusty