Hide-A-Goose Gooseneck Hitch Installation - 2005 Chevrolet Silverado

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2001 - 2009 GMC Pickup, Sierra 2500 HD Series, 6 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 GMC Pickup, Sierra Classic 2500 HD Series, 6 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 GMC Pickup, Sierra New Body 2500 HD Series, 6 ft. Bed

2001 - 2009 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado 2500 HD Series, 6 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado Classic 2500 HD Series, 6 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado New Body 2500 HD Series, 6 ft. Bed

2001 - 2009 GMC Pickup, Sierra 2500 HD Series, 8 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 GMC Pickup, Sierra Classic 2500 HD Series, 8 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 GMC Pickup, Sierra New Body 2500 HD Series, 8 ft. Bed

2001 - 2009 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado 2500 HD Series, 8 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado Classic 2500 HD Series, 8 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado New Body 2500 HD Series, 8 ft. Bed

1999 - 2004 GMC Pickup, Sierra 2500 LD Series, 8 ft. Bed

1999 - 2004 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado 2500 LD Series, 8 ft. Bed

2008 - 2009 GMC Pickup, Sierra 3500 HD Series, 6 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 GMC Pickup, Sierra New Body 3500 HD Series, 6 ft. Bed

2008 - 2009 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado 3500 HD Series, 6 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado New Body 3500 HD Series, 6 ft. Bed

2008 - 2009 GMC Pickup, Sierra 3500 HD Series, 8 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 GMC Pickup, Sierra New Body 3500 HD Series, 8 ft. Bed

2008 - 2009 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado 3500 HD Series, 8 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 Chevrolet Pickup, Silverado New Body 3500 HD Series, 8 ft. Bed

2001 - 2006 GMC Pickup, Sierra 3500 Series, 8 ft. Bed

2007 - 2007 GMC Pickup, Sierra Classic 3500 Series, 8 ft. Bed

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Installation of a Hide-A-Goose Gooseneck Hitch on a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado

Today we are going to install part number 9463-34 from Draw-Tite. We are going to install this on a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado. First we are going to do is get the truck ready to install the hitch. Go ahead and lower the spare tire and get that out of the way because you are going to need to lean over the differential and tighten down the bolts. Next what you want to do is go ahead and get the exhaust and loosen it up so you have a little more working room to install the kit. When lowering the exhaust what you want to do is pull down a little bit and spray some lubricant in there, let it work in a little bit, then you can go ahead and pry it off. Okay there is one more towards the front of the vehicle, we will undo that one too. Now you have more flexibility to work around it. Our next step is to loosen the bed on one side, it does not matter what side just pick the one you prefer to work on. And there are going to be four of these bolts right here going along through the frame.

We will just go ahead and undo those. The reason for loosing the bed is we will have more working room when putting in our cross bars in the bed. The next thing we are going to do is make room for the hitch. The heat shield right here is in the way, its made out of aluminum so it is real easy to cut through. We are going to cut it right where this cross member is and then right in front of the shock tower right here in this small part coming out. That will give us plenty of room to install our hitch. All right next we need to get the fuel vapor pump out of the way, we just want to knock it around, it will go back up when we are done. You want to push that latch in and it slides right out. And then next you have to do is trim this heat shield here and just pull it down out of the way. All right next we are going to mark our bed to drill out our hole. We will want to start off by finding the center rib. Going from the edge of the bed itself, not the tailgate, and we mark out as specified in the instructions. All right next we will go ahead and take our tape measure and center it between the fender wells. It is a good idea to go ahead and put a good dimple in it so we can see it from the bottom of the corrugation, so when we put our rails in we can make sure they are centered properly. So since we loosened the bed before we can go ahead and pick it up and get it ready to install our rails. You can use a pry bar to lift it up and put in some wooden blocks.

First we are going to do is prepare our rails, we are going to put our bolts in. This is our front rail by the way, you can tell by how it dips down here. We will go ahead and install our bolts, just them into place and put a nut in the back to hold them in place while we go ahead and slide them in. And the rail that goes to the back actually goes in the slots. Right we can go ahead and slide our rails in, start with the back one. We will just push that back towards the back rail, it does not have to be anywhere precise right now. Now we will do our front rail. Next we will install our plate. This channel goes in this hat channel right here, which allows it to line up with the existing hole in the frame here. And we will put our flat washers, lock washers, and nuts on it. We are not going to tighten them or anything like that now, we are just getting all the hardware installed. All right next we are going to install our u-bolt, put it around the frame and out through the holes of the plate, and we will install a conical tooth washer and nut. When we install the u-bolt on the drivers side you are going to find there is some wiring, a brake line, and some more wiring.

When you put the u-bolt in there you are going to have to snake it in between the wires. Make sure when you tighten it down it will not compress against anything. This attachment point here uses a bolt and a flat block that goes from the inside out. Just like that, then we add a lock washer and a nut. Once we have our hardware installed we can go ahead and lower the bed back down. It is kind of hard to see but we will go ahead and look for our dimple which is right here and if we tilt the rails up in the proper position you can tell that is pretty darn close to the middle and we should be in good shape. All right we can go ahead and drill out our hole now. Now we can install the head assembly, push it into place and install our flat washers and lock nuts. It is also a good idea to have an extra set of hands in there to help push it up while you get the hardware installed. All right once you have it loosely installed go ahead and snug it down and make some final adjustments to get it centered in the hole. At this point we can go ahead and start reinstalling our bed bolts and we can go ahead and tighten those down. Okay with our bolts snugged down in our head assembly lets go ahead and torque them down as specified in the instructions. Now we can snug down the bolts for our cross members to our frame brackets, we will snug those down and torque them according to specs. All right next we will tighten down the u-bolts here, we will tighten them down evenly with a hand ratchet so we can get the same amount of threads in each nut then torque them down to their final specs.

We will go ahead and snug down the 5 inch bolt that is in the frame and torque it down to specs. All right next we will drill out the holes for our u-bolts. And the way you want to do this is make sure that the part you are drilling into is part of the corrugation of the bed that is comes down. So on the topside the u-bolts will fit into the down part of the corrugation. We are just going to use a 1/ 2 bit just to mark our holes, and then we will go ahead and drill a 1/ 4 inch. Now we will go ahead and drill our 9/16 ths hole for our u-bolts from the top down. Now we will go ahead and in our u-bolts. Now the u-bolts are two different lengths so use the shorter leg to give you room around the gas tank or exhaust. All right now go back to the bottom of the truck and install the spring and hardware. First we will install the washer and nut. We will do that on all four bolts. We will tighten the nuts down about two threads past. We will put the vapor pump back into place. All right now we will go ahead and re-attach the exhaust to the rubber hangers too. Next we will go ahead and install our handle, put it on the side here by the fender well and then push it in and the safety pin will go inside there. We will go ahead and show you how the hide-a-goose works. You pull the lever straight out to the side, it does not matter what side until it catches the indent, let go and you can flip the ball over or take it out completely. Okay that finishes our install of part number 9463-34 from Draw-Tite.

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