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Hey everyone, how's it going Today, we're going to be going over and showing you how to install the Fifth Wheel Rail Sound Dampeners. So, this is a rather simple product. It's not necessarily something that's going to be required for your setup. But if you towed many trailers before, had a couple of different fifth wheel hitches, you're probably aware of that some of them have some movement within the base rails of our truck. Now, there's a lot of different variances that have this. It comes down to which fifth wheel rails we have, which fifth wheel hitch we have, the tolerance, tolerance stacking of the two or improper installation of our fifth wheel rails.
There's a lot of different reasons and factors that can come into play when we have movement of the fifth wheel hitch in our rails. Now that's certainly not something that we want to hear each time we get in, couple our trailer, we come to a stop at a stoplight hearing that fifth wheel hitch rock back and forth on our rails. Therefore, installing the sound dampeners here we're going to help improve that overall ride and cut down on the sound of our hitch moving inside the rails. So these are what our dampeners look like. It's a pretty simple design.
We have four of them, one for each attachment point on our fifth wheel legs. These are made of rubber, so they're nice and durable, but they also have some give to them, which is what allows them to have that dampening property. So they are rectangular shape. And we also have that rectangular cutout here, which is sort of going to mimic the shape of the attachment to our fifth wheel rails. So basically how these dampeners work is, this is going to be a rubber pad that installs between the bottom of the fifth wheel hitch and the top of the rail.
And it's going to provide sort of a cushion or a barrier between the two so we don't have that metal on metal contact. Now in order to install these, it's very easy. You're going to want to do one side at a time. We're going to pull out the two front pins. So we have one here and then we have one we need to pull out over here.
Now, once we have the front two pins out, we're going to lift up on our fifth wheel hitch assembly here. You are going to line up the rectangular slot there with our dampener. You may need to readjust the dampener when we have the fifth wheel hitch down. But that's pretty much how they're going to install and may or may not sit flat depending on how well they are aligned. You can sort of play with them a little bit to get them perfectly centered on that rectangular hole. But once we have one side in, we'll go ahead and repeat that same process on the other side. And then we'll just simply reinstall our pins. Now with both of our rear pins out, you can just come back here pretty much just do the same thing. And that's going to do it today for our look and installation of the fifth wheel rail sound dampeners..
Excellent product, great price, great customer service and fast shipping.
Nice once you get them on - but they make for a very tight fit the first time you mount them and try and put the pins in.
Quicker service than I ever expected, and all the correct items. Fantastic. Thanks
These pads are great.....But a bit of a pain in the butt to install the first few times. They make the pins fit TIGHT. But after a few times hauling the 5ver, they've squashed down some and it is finally easy to remove the pins for hitch removal.
The first installation of the fifth wheel hitch with these pads is a little tight. I'm sure once the weight has been on them a while it will be much easier to install/remove the pins. Other than that...awesome!
As already mentioned they do initially make it hard to put hitch pins in. I had to use a rubber mallet. I think once they get bedded in it will be easy though. Does isolate hitch from rails nicely. It's a thin but dense rubber and at least when initially installed has taken whatever slight play the hitch had in the rails right out.
Well, they are better than nothing. They fit the rails perfectly, do not interfere with being able to fit the hitch fasteners through the rails and hitch brackets. They help a little to prevent metal on metal squeaks in a limited amount.
Because they are necessarily thin and very pliable, they don’t really stop or dampen the wiggle of the hitch, and actually turn sideways some so one edge of the hitch leg still rides directly on the rail. Great idea that needs more functionality.
Well when placed between the slider hitch and the bracket that sits in the Ford puck system, the slider hitch won't seat low enough back into the pick system bracket to allow the hitch pins to slide through. I tried everything, gearing the hitch pins, tapping a bull pin through the hole first to try to align the holes but the tabs on the bottom of the Curt slider hitch are still about 1/8 inch too high to allow the hitch pins to slide through. Very frustrating engineering from Curt hitches.
These worked great for me. I have the B&W 18k Patriot Slider Hitch *RBV3270). The four rail pins were a bit tight once the sound dampeners were installed, but not impossible to get in there.
Their price was far better than anyone else’s!! Shipped in a VERY timely manner and info was easily accessible. Thanks to etrailer and will do business with them again!!
Great service and fast shipping. I have a home office and was working on a Sunday afternoon. I received a call from George to inform me of the status of my order. I thought I was the only one working on Sunday lol. I was sure wrong. I am very impressed with their customer service. I will browse their site and will buy from them.
I always have great service from etrailer .com.
Will not fit. Rubber is too thick to install rail pins.
Do like my wife told me. Put them in a zip lock bag when you remove the hitch from the rails.
Very speedy service.
Service is always excellent
They fit exactly like the originals from Ram. Have not been able to test them in towing yet, but I am sure that they will do the job
Delivery was much faster than expected and the items are exactly what I ordered. Great job!
I was trying too eliminate the clanking of my hitch, so I ordered these Curt rubber spacers, and after waiting for the order, they don't work. The problem is that when they are installed they raise the base and you are unable too slide the pin in too secure the hitch too the rails. Waste of my money since I purchased 2 set's.
These neoprene "spacers" are each 1/10th of an inch thick, are very flexible, and are designed to keep the Curt hitch quiet and to stop the Curt slider rails from contacting the bed. Instructions refer to these as "spacers" and that they may not work with all mounting applications.
I bought these for my Reese/ProSeries hitch to keep it quiet and they are a snug fit, but they fit ! Hopefully they will hold up to my 17K lb 5th wheel, but if not they are cheap enough to replace, depending on how much life I get out of them in the torturing southwest desert sun.
Product is OK, does not last long, poor design of hitch mounting. If rubber had metal backing on one side it would last longer.
Douglas M.
7/23/2019
Hitch is good. The noise suppression rubbers need designed better as I have previous stated. Made my own metal pieces to go with the rubbers and they last a lot longer.
I adapted these with a piece of sheet metal to fit under a set of Reese legs that were shaped like a channel.
They have virtually eliminated the clanging noise of the hitch legs banging around in the rails.
We are VERY pleased with them!
I did not realize how much play the 5th wheel hitch had until I installed these! The road rattles I heard while going over bumps are now gone! Great product If you do not want to hear the rattles of the road anymore!
these actually do work as they do dampen the sound by cushioning between the rails and the 5th wheel hitch. I am satisfied with this purchase.
Was a tad shocked when the item arrived due to the size as I was expecting something thicker after all the reviews about trouble installing pins after installation of rubber pads, that aside I am happy with it as I don't hear the fifth wheel while going down the road but as for longevity we will have to wait and see. If your 5th wheel clanks going down the road you need this product.
I bought these for a reese hitch, they do not actually fit the mount for my 5th wheel, i actually installed 2 pads on each corner and it seems to have worked.
I had ordered 2 sets so I had them on hand. we will see how this goes once we start traveling soon
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John W.
9/25/2017
I still love it. It is working great. Your service was as great as the product.