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This hitch is made for serious hauling. With a gross towing weight of 30,000 lbs and a vertical load limit of 6,000 lbs, it’s ready for heavy-duty trailers, equipment, or big RV setups. The steel hitch ball and rugged construction give you a strong, stable connection that stays solid under load and keeps you towing confidently mile after mile.
When the trailer’s unhooked, you can fold the ball down right into the hitch for a flat bed surface. Just lift the door near the ball, pivot it down, and close the door again. This simple fold-down setup gives you full use of your truck bed without removing any parts, so loading gear or materials is quick and hassle-free.
Even with thick work gloves on, the easy-grab T-handle lets you raise or lower the ball without fuss. It’s straightforward and smooth to operate so you can go from towing to hauling in seconds. The stainless steel safety pin and pivot spring in the ball help prevent binding, keeping everything moving freely and locking securely when you’re ready to tow.
The custom installation kit is designed specifically for your setup and goes on with a bolt-on install—no welding required. Two U-bolt safety chain loops are included for dependable safety chain hookups. The carbide black powder coated finish over steel helps resist corrosion so this hitch keeps its strength and looks even after years of heavy use.
Alternate Instructions
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hello neighbors. Welcome back. I'm Steven here at etrailer.com, and today we're looking together at this Curt Overbed folding gooseneck ball trailer hitch with this custom installation kit. Now folks, again, this is a custom fit kit. Make sure you're using our website, etrailer.com. Go to the top center of our page, enter the year, make and model.
Make sure you're getting the right parts the first time. Now this particular guide fits a 1994 through 01 Dodge Ram pickup, both the short and long bed, and also a 2002 Dodge Ram pickup, both the 25 and 3,500 series and both long and short beds as well. Now this gooseneck trailer hitch is gonna be very, very good for your heavy duty towing needs. It's gonna have this fold down ball that allows you for an uninhibited use of your truck bed. Now as far as operation, I'm gonna show you this at three different angles.
We'll start with the closeup. You simply pull this lever here, it's spring loaded. You can kind of see the spring moving. Pull that outta the way. Pull up on the door here, pull the ball down.
There's some grooves inside of here, and that just slides right down inside of that pocket. Then you're ready to go. Now keep in mind, all of this is under the bed hidden. All you're seeing is basically from this plate, you know up. So you got your safety chain tie downs.
Those are spring loaded. To put it back up, you simply open the door back up with the pull handle here, grab the T-handle, pivots up, put this back down in place. Now if you don't have this, let's say, you let go here, that's not gonna go down all the way. That's not safe, that's not fully locked. It has to be flat and that has to be locked back out. Now, we're safe to tow. Now, swap into an overhead view. Same concept, pull the T-handle, again, that spring lever pulled outta the way. Pull this guy up. Keep in mind, I've got all this stuff just kind of loosely fitted. These are lock nuts. I don't wanna run them all the way in since they're a one time use deal. But again, pull that up, pivot the ball down. It'll pivot all the way. And you'll see there's these slots here. It's gonna sit into those tracks and there's a greaser here, that grease circ is used if you want to grease up the ball, help it pivot, that kind of stuff. And when you're done, you simply have it flat and you're ready to go. Again, let's spring loaded. Safety chain, tie down points, popping the ball up. Very simple, just pull the T-handle, pivot it up, close the door and you're ready to go. Nice and solid. Nice and safe. Now folks, this is a custom bolt-on installation. There is no welding, no drilling required. You simply just use the pre-existing holes in the trailer, in the vehicle frame. And these bolts here, two on the back, again, those are just loosely here. Those will be installed into the frame of the truck. All the black powder coated steel here is very, very nice. Very nice finish heavy duty steel. It's about, if I had to guess, probably at least three eighths of an inch thick here. So very, very sturdy. The whole thing is rated at 30,000 pounds. The vertical load limit on the sky is 6,000 pounds, and the ball size is your standard two and five 16th inch gooseneck ball. Now this kit has a nice seven year warranty, very impressive. It does come with some spacer blocks here. So those spacer blocks up here, those are for when you're installing the bracket tree to the frames of the truck. Those might be needed. You might need some, all, who knows, maybe none. Just follow the instructions. And this little piece of conduit looking pipe here, this is basically a spacer as far as getting the space between these two bars. This is exactly seven inch bar per the instructions. And just follow the instructions. You get a nice template here that tells you where to mark those holes for those bolts and everything before you drill to give you a nice template to drill through. And it's a nice heavy duty cardboard, cardstock piece of material there. So very nice. Very impressed with that too. So going back to the ball, everything with the ball, the T handles, all stainless steel. The safety pin here, all the pivot springs, all the springs in here, they're all stainless steel. So that's gonna ensure that you don't have to worry about rust, corrosion, buildup, that kind of stuff. Now again, everything else is solid steel with the powder coat finish. So very nice, very well made product, honestly. If you've bought curt stuff before, you know how good they are. They've been around for a long, long time. They make really, really good stuff. Well, folks, I think that's gonna do it for our look at this Curt over bed folding ball gooseneck trailer hitch with this custom installation kit. I'm Steven. Thank you so much for your time. I hope this information's been helpful, have a great day.
Ratings & Reviews
Works great. Only issue is the chrome on the ball peeling, but that's because I didn't grease it enough. Otherwise no issues at all
Easy installation. Pattern needs to add a notch for the right side bolt. Easy to follow instructions
The hitch works as it should a little hard to install if you don’t have the right tools but if you do it’s not bad as far as fit it fit perfect in my f-350
The hitch fit very well and install was easy to mount. One small mod to under bed sheet metal was needed.
Product is very good but the company is great, My package came torn at the corner with all but 3 pieces missing. 1 phone call to etrailer and they reshipped the parts I was missing with no problems at all. They take care of UPS problems, I received my replacement parts within 3 days Thanks e trailer Jim
Got this for the 01 2500HD Sierra. Metal is extremely thick and strong. However, The holes for the bracket pull the cross bars up to the bottom of the truck better. Makes it seem like a lot of the weight is resting on the bolts and not the crossbars/frame.
Over all a very stout set up but I was disappointed that I have factory threaded inserts in my frame for gooseneck hitches less than 2 inches from where this one mounts but this just didn't utilize them. It does use holes in the frame so there isn't any drilling though. Also you have to cut the bottom seam of the bed inside the wheel well (per instructions) to get the cross members in and have to cut a rather large square hole in the bed floor instead of just a hole for the ball ( also per instructions).
This Curt Overbed folding ball goose trailer hitch has worked like a charm since installing last summer. I would recommend it to customers looking for replacement gooseneck hitches on their rigs.
The ball works just fine once you get it up and locked. The locking mechanism has to be greased or never-ceased almost every time. The tie downs for safety chains were hampered during installation by an existing cross member, but we got it in. Overall as for useability I vote "works fine" as for installation instructions are close.
Inside the bed it closes to give me all working area, I would buy it again.
Good product, at a great price
Haven’t installed yet but looks good shipping was not good box open all hardware all over
Very nice product!!! Works well and is easy to install. Would have given it a 5 star but the product did not come with install papers so had to look up online. I tow a 28 foot gooseneck regularly and it does great!!! Also like that it lays flat in bed for when I need to haul something without trailer.
I was looking for a 5th wheel solution and found this setup. Install was strait forward and Easy. It workes great with my 26 foot camper trailer. It folds almost flat with the bed floor for a flat load surface for sheet goods. The bottom of the mount does not drop to low to impead with exhaust pipe, hoses, drive shaft or rear diff. A great product sold by a good company that's there with support and solutions. Thanks etrailer.
Terrible instructions need more actual pics of where to place the plates ect.
Etrailer is awesome, not so much for this product.
My first and primary issue is that the safety chain u-bolts are positioned to close to the angle iron brackets to allow clearance for them to freely move up and down with the nuts installed (see photos). I can force them up from below with a hammer and stomped them back down from above. This problem is made worse due to the proximity to the ball, if I dont ensure they arent stomped down as much as possible they would interfere with my coupler when turning. I'm honestly still worried about interference if I find myself in any off camber turn.
The other problem I have isnt the fault of the hitch, but now that its installed it is still much more intrusive to the bed space when folded flat than I anticipated. In the past I've had under bed mount balls, this being a work truck I thought the cheaper option would work but I regret that decision.
Great product, very easy to install. Did it in an afternoon by myself. A lift is helpful but it could be done with jack stands on the ground.
The hitch is heavy duty. The brackets that bolt to the frame seem too flimsy. They should be twice as thick as they are. A couple of the bolt holes did not line up so we ended up drilling my frame to mount. Would not recommend this if you are not comfortable drilling holes and cutting on your frame or bed.
Fast delivery accurate product fare pri cing
Fast shipping, received in 2 days, installed day I received, great quality, customer service was very helpful. Instructions that came with the Curt 30k gooseneck hitch was not detailed but barely sufficient if you have basic mechanical skills,
Works great. Glad we bought it. Was a little tough to install for somebody that has never done one but after doing it I can now do them again. Will be buying another one at a later time for my other truck I am currently working on.
shipping was fast about two days. Install went good works as it should. would buy again.
The product seems to be great quality. Nothing really lined up so I had to make a few minor modifications. But the company had it at my door in 2 days free shipping... It was 106 pounds. That's what I call impressive
The hitch is extremely stout. The install was not so bad but the instructions lack a bunch of detail. When received, parts were missing. See pics. After a few trips to the hardware store I managed to put the parts together to install the hitch. The fact that I was on a stringent timeline made this task more difficult. The template for centering the frame hitch was non-existant so allot of time was spent with a tape measure and a marker. All in all its a solid unit. I would suggest a buy on this one but etrailer needs to work the transportation issues of their boxes. The Curt over bed portion was all there and in a solid box.
its solid , no issues so far ...... the only little detail is the chain connectors they somehow by design tend be difficult to extend up and down but its an easy fix that got done on day one and no problem since
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