Fifth Wheel Hitch Kit Installation - 1998 Ford F-150 and F-250 Light Duty - Video
Today on this 1998 Ford F-150 we will be installing the fifth wheel rails and brackets part number 50042-6008. We are up underneath the vehicle and we need to do a couple of things in preparation before we can get started. We first want to lower the spare tire and get that out of the way to give us a little bit more working room. Second we need to go ahead and lower the exhaust off of the rear most hanger here and what we are actually going to do is go ahead and unbolt it from the side of the frame. There is two nuts on the inboard side that we need to go ahead and take off. That will allow that to come down. Then after that we just need to remove the heat shield here as well. You will see that there are four screws that are holding that on that need to come down. We also need to remove the forward heat shield as well. With the under body stuff finished we can go ahead and go up inside of the bed and go ahead and set up our front rail here. 01:17 more
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Posted: 11/24/2009 8:28:28 AM
Fifth Wheel Base Rail Kit Installation - 2009 GMC Sierra - Video
Today on this 2009 GMC Sierra pickup we are going to install part number RP50064-58. To get started, we need to do a few things in preparation. First off what we are going to do is lower the spare tire so we have some working room underneath there. And second, we are going to go ahead and remove the heat shield. Now we are not going to take out the whole thing. We just need to take out a section of it. Cut it right behind the second to last cross member. This one has a round tube that goes across on the frame. So we will cut right in front of that. And then, further up above the muffler here, we are going to make a cut right next to the hat channel for the bed itself. And then, we will go ahead and remove these two bolts right here and lower the whole thing down. Now if you cannot get these bolts loose, you will probably just have to cut on both sides of the hat channel to remove both pieces then. 1:08 more
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Posted: 4/22/2011 9:22:44 AM
Fifth Wheel Base Rail Kit Installation - 2007 Chevy Silverado - Video
Today on this 2007 Chevrolet Silverado we are going to install part number RP50064-58. Alright, while we are under the truck we will go ahead and remove this section of the heat shield because we are going to need wrench access for the bolts that come down for the second rail. After that, we will go ahead and start with the bed itself and measure out our first rail that will get installed in the bed. That will be the rail going towards the front. What we are going to do is measure from the edge of the bed itself and measure out as described in the instructions. Alright, that will set our distance from front to rear. Now we will just get it centered from left to right. We just measure from the inside edge of the fender well over to the rail. Go ahead and mark the holes that we are going to be drilling out through the bed. And on this kit we are going to be using the two outside holes here on this rail. Alright with the marks we made we will go ahead and drill out some pilot holes. When you are drilling out this hole, make sure you are careful about it because beneath here is where the gas tank lies. 0:57 more
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Posted: 4/11/2011 12:07:00 AM
Fifth Wheel Base Rail Kit Installation - 2005 Chevrolet 3500 - Video
Today on this 2005 Chevrolet 3500 we are going to install part number RP50064-58. This is Reeses fifth wheel rails and install kit. The first thing we need to do is get the truck ready to install the kit. The first thing we did was remove the spare tire so we can get underneath the vehicle and install the hardware. We will also lower the exhaust because above the exhaust there is a heat shield and we need to move the exhaust out of the way so that we can cut the heat shield out of the way. We will look at the passenger side frame rail of the vehicle and this is the heat shield that goes all the way across. We are actually going to remove two sections of this. We are going to remove this section here from this hat channel as far back as we can because right here is where we have to have wrench access to tighten down parts. The second section we are going to remove is on this side of the hat channel, there are two right in a row, so we are going to cut across here and we are going to go all the way to the next hat channel up here and go across as well. 00:57 more
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Posted: 1/26/2011 8:06:09 AM
