JTrac wrote:
This may or may not help you but I bought a BD3 last spring. I had a B&W hitch with their Turnover Ball. I bought the Curt X5 to use with the BD3 but found it sat the hitch about 5" closer to the cab than the B&W. Since I was towing with a short bed 1 ton this was not going to work.
I currently have the B&W turnover ball setup & that's what led me to look into the Curt adapter, or something similar, to use with the TS3. When I eyeballed in the truck bed where the pin would be using the adapter I found the same as you, it would be a few inches farther forward. I have a 2012 chev 3500 long bed so i have the forward room to accommodate this placement, but I would be limited in room between the fiver and tailgate when the tailgate is lowered. Matter of fact, if I used the adapter I could probably not lower the tailgate all the way when hitching/unhitching, especially if the truck is angled to the trailer, & that doesn't work for me.
I bought my truck used & there were some Husky standard rails mounted in the bed at the time. Part of my deal to buy the truck was for the dealer to install a B&W turnover ball frame under the bed. I already had the hitch frame and head assembly I had used on my previous truck. I still have the Husky rails and hardware so instead of using a Curt adapter or something similar I'll just re-install the Husky rails to give me the best pin placement relative to the adapter setup. This is why I was trying to get information for a rail setup as well.
