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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.
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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.
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Hi everybody, Andy here with etrailer.com. Let's take a look at this Reese quick-install custom outboard installation kit with base rails for fifth wheel trailer hitches. Now, these custom outboard brackets with these extended length base rails are going dramatically reduce the amount of drilling and time required to install your fifth wheel trailer hitch. Now as I mentioned, these are custom, and they are designed specifically to fit your 2023 and newer Ford F-250 and F-350 Super Duty, either with a 6 3/4-foot bed or an 8-foot bed without the OEM prep package. And then your 2023 and newer Ford F-450 Super Duty 8-foot bed, again, without the OEM prep package. On custom fit parts and custom fit installation kits such as this one, I do recommend taking advantage of our vehicle fit guide here at etrailer.com.
Simply input the year, make, and model of your vehicle and our fit guide will confirm if this will work for you or if we have something comparable that will work for you. Now these brackets are going to mount beneath your truck bed to provide attachment points for your fifth wheel rails, and this is going to use existing holes in the frame of your truck to help minimize that installation time, helping to minimize drilling and measuring. And it's going to cut down that installation time by more than half compared to universal installation kits. Now the biggest difference with these outboard brackets is that they're designed to install on the outside of the frame of your truck. So the result is going to be a much simpler installation for you where most of the underbed components can be easily avoided because you're working outside of those frame rails, and you're going to have easier access with your tools and more room to work, making the whole process less of a pain.
Now these extended length 10-volt base rails are going to sit in the bed of your truck and allow the installation of your fifth wheel trailer hitch. They attach to the underbed brackets with two carriage bolts at both ends. Then a single bolt is going to be used in the center of each rail to further secure it to the bed of your truck. So the result is a set of base rails that remain firmly in place thanks to 10 points of contact. Now let me go ahead and give you the overall length of these rails, and I'm gonna line up my tape measure here for you.
Hopefully you can see, these base rails are sitting at 48 inches long and they're 1 7/8 inches tall. And these are going to be compatible with your Curt, Draw-Tite, Hidden Hitch, Husky, Reese and Valley fifth wheel hitches. And as I hope you can see here in the bags, this will include grade 8 installation hardware, along with sets of instructions to guide you through the installation process. And the brackets and the rails are constructed of sturdy steel with a black powder coat that's going to help resist corrosion. And this thoroughly tested kit tested is compliant with strict Society of Automotive Engineers guidelines.
And Reese does put a limited lifetime warranty on this kit. Well, that's gonna wrap up our look today. I do hope that it was helpful for you. Again, my name is Andy. Thank you for joining me.
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