Reese Quick-Install Custom Base Rails and Outboard Installation Kit for 5th Wheel Trailer Hitches

Reese Fifth Wheel Installation Kit - RP56001-53

Heavy-duty, custom brackets dramatically reduce the amount of drilling and time required to install your fifth-wheel trailer hitch. Outboard design ensures simple access to mounting points. Brackets, 10-bolt base rails and hardware included.

Features:

• Installation brackets mount beneath your truck bed to provide attachment points for 5th-wheel rails
• Base rails sit in truck bed and allow installation of 5th-wheel trailer hitch
• Fast, simple installation with outboard design
  • Extended-length base rails allow for mounting farther out from truck frame
    • Avoids underbed components for easier access
    • Cuts down installation time by more than half compared with universal kits
  • Custom brackets mount to existing holes in truck frame, minimizing drilling and measuring
• Thoroughly tested kit is compliant with strict Society of Automotive Engineers guidelines
• Kit includes brackets, 10-bolt rails and Grade-8 hardware
• Compatible with Curt, Draw-Tite, Hidden Hitch, Husky, Reese and Valley 5th-wheel hitches
• Sturdy, black powder coated steel resists corrosion
• Made in the USA

Specs:

• Base rail dimensions: 48" long x 1-7/8" tall
• Limited lifetime warranty

Reese's outboard installation kit for your fifth-wheel trailer hitch was designed with safety and convenience in mind. Just like the original custom mounting brackets, these brackets install using existing holes in the truck frame, minimizing installation time. The biggest difference with this outboard kit is the extended-length rails. These above-bed rails are 5 inches longer than standard, universal fifth-wheel rails so that they will match up with the mounting points on the brackets, which sit below the bed and outside of your truck's frame. The result is a much simpler installation process, wherein most underbed components can be easily avoided. Because you are working outside the frame rails, you also have easier access with your tools and more room to work, making the whole process less of a pain.

The base rails included in this installation kit feature a standard 10-bolt design. Each of these rails attaches to the underbed brackets with two carriage bolts at both ends. A single bolt is used in the center of each rail to further secure it in your truck bed. The result is a set of base rails that remains firmly in place thanks to 10 points of contact.

This entire installation kit is built to be SAE J2638 compliant and has been extensively tested per specified accelerated-life-cycle criteria for fifth-wheel trailer hitches. The requirements for testing are based on the European-style test of 900,000 cycles, making this testing process among the most thorough and intensive in the industry.

56001 Reese Quick-Install Out Board Brackets

30153 Reese Extended Length Fifth Wheel Installation Rails

This Product Fits The Following Vehicles

2011 - 2013 GMC Sierra 2500 HD Series, 6-1/2 Foot Bed

2011 - 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD Series, 6-1/2 Foot Bed

2011 - 2013 GMC Sierra 2500 HD Series, 8 Foot Bed

2011 - 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD Series, 8 Foot Bed

2011 - 2013 GMC Sierra 3500 Series, 6-1/2 Foot Bed

2011 - 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 3500 Series, 6-1/2 Foot Bed

2011 - 2013 GMC Sierra 3500 Series, 8 Foot Bed

2011 - 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 3500 Series, 8 Foot Bed

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• Will the Reese Custom Install Kit Fit on a 2013 Chevy 2500HD with Pre-Installed Wheel Well Liners
  
• You can install the Reese Custom Install Kit, # RP56001-53, with the outboard brackets on your 2013 Chevrolet 2500 HD with the wheel well liners. In fact, our installers just installed a gooseneck hitch with outboard frame brackets on a 2013 Chevy 3500HD with the wheel well liners yesterday and had no problem. You may want to temporarily remove the wheel well liners to make the installation easier, but once the brackets and base rails are installed, you can re-install the wheel well liners.
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• Rail Kit Recommendation for a 2013 3500HD Silverado fifth 3500HD with an 8 ft 2 in Bed Length
  
• Typically, long bed trucks are right at 8 feet long, give or take a couple inches, depending on where you measure them. Your 2013 Chevy Silverado has an 8 foot bed. Just to make things consistent we list everything either 6-1/2 ft or 8 ft even known a couple trucks have slightly longer or shorter beds. The Reese Custom Install kit # RP56001-53 that you referenced will be the kit for your vehicle. This rail kit works on 8 foot beds and 6-1/2 foot beds also. For a 22k Reese hitch that will
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• Pins for Reese 16K 5th Wheel Hitch Not Fitting Outboard Installation Rails on a 2013 Chevy 3500 HD
  
• It is possible that the rails are not square in the bed. You will want to measure from the inside corner of one rail diagonally to the inside corner of the other rail like in the picture I have included. If your rails are square and the pins still will not go all the way through then you can use longer pull pin kit # RP58467.
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