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Installing a fifth-wheel trailer hitch can often be a time-consuming and complicated process. However, the custom brackets included in this kit are designed to mount directly beneath your truck bed, utilizing existing holes in your vehicle’s frame. This streamlined approach drastically reduces the need for drilling and measuring, effectively cutting your installation time in half compared with universal bracket systems. It's vehicle-specific and takes the hassle out of setup, ensuring a quick and easy installation.
Switching between trailer hitch brands can be a pain, especially if you have to replace the entire setup. Thankfully, the base rails included in this installation kit are compatible with a wide variety of industry-standard fifth-wheel hitches, including popular brands like Curt, Draw-Tite, Hidden Hitch, Reese, Valley, and Husky. This ensures you get the flexibility and ease of switching out your hitch without the headache of needing new rails.
Exposing your hitch components to the elements can lead to premature wear and rust, which is bad news for both safety and aesthetics. The black powder coat finish on this installation kit provides superior resistance to corrosion, ensuring that your hitch remains functional and looking good for years to come. This added durability means you can tow with confidence, even in harsh weather conditions.
One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to securely mounting your fifth-wheel hitch. The vehicle-specific brackets in this installation kit ensure a precise fit onto your truck’s existing frame holes. This custom fit not only simplifies the installation process but also enhances the security of the setup. It's perfectly tailored for models like the Ford F-250, F-350, and F-450, guaranteeing a snug fit for optimal performance.
Worried about compatibility issues with your existing setup? This kit offers a reliable solution by working seamlessly with a range of truck models and existing accessory setups. It fits Ford F-series trucks from 1999 to 2010, ensuring it accommodates both long and short beds. Whether it's an F-250 or an F-450, these base rails can handle variable bed sizes, offering a universal solution to your towing needs without a hitch!
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Today on our 2006 Ford F350, well be installing the Reese Quick-Install Custom Based Rails and installation kit from Fifth Wheel Trailer Hitches part number RP50082-58. Now weve already gone ahead and removed both of the rear wheels as well as lower down the spare tire out of the way. This will give us a little bit more working room. Well begin here by setting our rear rail in place. Well take some measurements to make sure its centered between the welled seems of the bed and then well measure 32 inches to the rear portion of the rail. Now youll notice that this vehicle does have a spray end bed liner, so were going to add approximately 8 of an inch to our measurement to come and save for the extra spray liner. Now that we have the rail centered, as well as at the proper measurement from the rear of the bed, well go ahead and mark our 4 locations that well need to put a pilot hole to make sure that everything will line up. Well go ahead and take our paint marker here and mark these 4 locations. Once these 4 locations are marked, well go ahead and slide the rail out of the way and put 4 pilot holes in, 1 at each of the 4 locations we just marked. Now that we have all 4 pilot holes drilled, well go ahead and go up underneath each of the wheel wells and make sure that our side plates will line up with the pilot holes we just drilled. You will notice that the side plates are right and left sides and you want the flanges to angle outward when you would hold them up into place. Now that weve made sure that our pilot holes are lined up with our side plates, well go ahead and do the step up process and ultimately end up with a 9/16 hole drilled in the bed at these 4 locations.
Now before drilling through any portions of the bed, its always a good idea to make sure that you cant drill into anything such as a gas tank, a break line or any wiring harness. Next were ready to go ahead and install our frame brackets to the frame. Well go ahead and begin here on the drivers side, well line up the 2 tabs on either side of the hat channel as these will line up with the holes we just drilled in the bed. Once we have this lined up, well go ahead and slip our U bolt in place and then loosely attach our hardware. The U bolt hardware is the U bolt mechanical tooth washer as well as a half inch knot. Now for the rear location to mount our side plate on, well be using a 5 Ace by 2 inch bolt, a inch by 1 by 3 inch spacer block, a 5 ace lock washer and a 5 ace hex knot. This would be the same hardware that well be using for both sides. Now that we have each of our sides plate loosely installed, but tight enough to keep them in place.
Now well go back up end of the bed of the vehicle and put our rail back over the 4 holes we drilled. Now youll notice that our rail actually sits on the top of the corrugation part of the bed, so well need to put the U shape spaces up underneath the bed, that way we always have metal to metal contact and the bed will not be crushed when we tighten everything down. Now to get some of the U spacers underneath the bed we did have to use a pribar or a large flat head screw driver to bend portions of the bat channel just enough to let them slide in. we also had to use a hammer to kind of tap them into place. Now that we have all of our U spacers in place, now were ready to go ahead and put out carriage bolts from the top down. Our carriage bolt are inch by 2 inch long. Theyll go through the rail then through the bed making sure that they slide through the U shape space that we just put in place, followed by putting a round hole spacer block, a lock washer and a hex knot.
Well do this for all 4 locations. Next well need to take the fifth wheel head assembly and slide it into our mounted plate and then take out unmounted plate and connect it on the other 2 prongs on the fifth wheel. This will give us our spacing for our other rail. Once we have that, well need to make sure that its centered between the welled seem on the bed as well as at the fifth wheel slides in and out of the rails easily. Now youll notice that our fifth wheel is actually a used fifth wheel as it came from another vehicle and were just remounting new rails to accommodate the used fifth wheel. Now that we have our rail in place, well take our pilot bed and put a pilot hole in each of the 4 outer locations as well as the center location. At this time, well also go ahead and put our pilot hole in the center location for the rear rail. Once weve checked to make sure the pilot holes line up with the side plates, well go ahead and step them up to a 9/16 hole.
Well do this for the 5 locations on the front rail and for the rear center location, well just step that up to a half inch hole. Now that we have all of our hole drilled out, now were ready to put our hardware in. Again, for the front rail, well need to go underneath, put our U shape spacer blocks in place then we can put our carriage bolts in place from the top. Now both of the center locations do not require a U shape spacer block. So for the outer 4 locations well do the carriage bolt through the U shape spacer block underneath the bed, followed by a round hole spacer block, a lock washer and a hex knot. Now for the 2 center locations, itll be a inch carriage bolt, a mechanical tooth washer and a hex knot. Well go ahead and tighten down all the hardware and then well torque it to the manufacturers specification beginning with torqueing the mounting rails to the frame brackets followed by torqueing the frame brackets to the truck frame itself. Once we have all of our hardware torqued down, well go ahead and show you how our fifth wheel hitch slides into the rails. Well go ahead and slide out pins in followed by putting in the locking clips and then well reinstall the spare tire that we removed earlier. And with that, that will conclude our installation of the Reese Quick-Install Custom Based Rails and installation kit from Fifth Wheel Trailer Hitches part number RP50082-58 on our 2007 Ford F350. .
Top notch product.
Instructions were very well written. Very easy install.
ApplicationThe parts were ordered for a 2011 Ford truck which was not listed. They said the parts would fit and they did. Would definately order again.
Installed It Last Night no Problem Went Real Easy Thanks
The rails and brackets came in one complete box ready to be installed. I started installing late that afternoon and was completed
the next day early. Was very easy to install and did it all by myself.
Should have took pictures , but went together so easy didn't take time to.
Thank you
Hardware is excellent. Instructions very poorly written. As this was my second install, I was able to decipher illustrations and get the job done.
Great fit. Had all the parts needed for a smooth install. Good directions for installing. Will purchase from e-trailer again if needed.
Installation was relatively simple, product is as I'd hoped and etrailer has been very nice to do business with.
Ordered monday afternoon and had in my hands friday. All the parts were there and the price was great !
I would order from them again anytime and will tell my friends and family.
Thanks E-Trailer
Great service. Very fast delivery. Missing some lock washers, but Great product. easy install.
The order arrived very quickly and It looks to be a very good product. I am very satisfied with etrailer's handling of this order.
This Kit installed like a piece of cake on my 2004 F250 SD. Definitely a two person job, but no problems encountered. Reached most of the attachment points inside rear wheel well.
Big time saverInstalled fast. I did however drill an extra hole on each side to secure the rear section of the brackets.
Very good product! Note, place the U-Bolts in their holes and start the nutes before tightening the rail to frame bracket bolts! Went in great and looks very solid.
Great product, fast shipping, will order more from etrailer in the near future.
Easy install a couple hours and it was done everything fit well great product and have used the universal brackets in the past I stronglyrecomend quick custom install brackets it will save a lot of work and time
shiping was great . started installing at 330 finished by 630 . 3hours by myself . would of been quicker with help. got tired of getting in an out of truck bed. great product. previousley had one installed in 2001 dodge an they charged me $350.00 to do the install.
Excellent kit!! Includes everything needed to install the rails. I HIGHLY recomend buying the custom install kit! Stop thinking about it and do it! Well worth the extra coin, and shipped fast from ETRAILER.com!
Great customer service and prompt delivery. I have never been disappointed when ordering parts over the past several years. e.trailer is the only place that I purchase towing accessories. Thank You e.trailer!
Love the product. Only one part missing in the order. It happened to be a critical lock washer that I had to go to a hardware store to purchase in order to continue the installation. Other than that, satisfied.
Great product. Best price I could find anywhere. Fast shipping. It came with excellent instructions and the online E-Trailer instructional video was helpful and probably kept me from drilling into my fuel tank...THANKS!
This kit was very easy to install and the service from Etrailer was top notch! I would recommend this to anyone that has a Ford truck that wants to add a 5th wheel hitch to their truck!
Great service - quick delivery. I researched a lot of 5th wheel hitches for my 2000 f-350 dually and the 20K Reese with the 50058 rail kit was all it claimed to be. The frame mounts lined up perfectly. The only drilling required was the rail mount holes. I am extremely satisfied with the product.
These brackets made my life so much easier as far as the install goes. The print on the instructions was very faded making it hard to see the illustrations. But after reading the text and watching Etrailer.com's informative video for the install on the 2006 f350, it was pretty easy. All total about 2.5 - 3 hours and my brackets and hitch were installed. If I had help im sure it would have been quicker but I did it on my own. The quality of the brackets and hardware was top notch along with super fast shipping and service from Etrailer.com. Thanks!
This was well worth the cost. Kit came with everything needed to install the fifth wheel hitch in my truck. There was a previous rail kit in my truck so holes were already drilled. Installed in less than 2 hours with 2 people. Excellent product, price, and shipping!!
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