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Jake: Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer today. We're going to be taking a look at two different Curt products, but they're going to accomplish the same thing. We're going to be looking at the curd spider and the Curt drop-in plate. Both of them are going to be a gooseneck conversion for your fifth wheel rails that are already in your bed.Now what I like about this is let's say you have a fifth wheel camper that you go camping with for the past couple of years. And you decide that you want to either haul a gooseneck trailer because you got a side project coming up or something like that, but you don't want to take out your bed because you still like going camping. This is designed to help you haul goosenecks in the proper way, by just utilizing the rails that are already in your bed.The first difference is going to be that our safety chain loops on our spider are going to be on the front and they're going to be spring-loaded, just like our standard ones are on your regular goosenecks.
Can be spring-loaded, pull it out, hook your safety chain on there, and you're ready to go. The ball is another area of concern. So the gooseneck ball on our spider is going to sit directly in the center of our two rails. It's also going to sit from the bottom of the spider to the top of the ball, is going to be about seven and a half inches. Let's go ahead and take a look at the Curt plate for gooseneck adapter and show you the difference.
With our Curt plate. You can see that our safety chain loops are incorporated in the plate itself. You just simply hook your safety chain hooks onto these loops, and it's going to be safe to travel down the road.You're going to notice that our ball is going to be slightly offset either to the front or the rear. We can flip this plate around depending on what kind of vehicle that we're towing it with. If we have a long bed, it's not really going to matter which configuration you use it for.
You are going to be able to use it with the ball facing the cab, or more towards the cab. And if you have a short bed truck, which you can do, is you can take the whole plate and have these handy little grip slots that you can put your hands so you don't smash it in between the bed and the sides of our plate. Simply lift it up, spin it around, set it down, and you can see very easily. We just gained about six inches back and neither of our balls are going to be in the center of our two rails.So this is going to give us that extra cab clearance that we need for the nose of our trailer, if you're hauling it in a short bed. The biggest difference between the two gooseneck adapters I'll have to say is going to be the height of your ball.
The height of our ball on our gooseneck plate here is going to be only from the top of your rails to the top of the ball is only going to be about four and a half inches. So you can tell the difference between the sheer size of our spider and our plate is that you're going to gain about three inches if you're using the spider. Whereas if you don't want to have to adjust your coupler on your trailer, or if you can't adjust it enough, we've gotten a lot of reviews that say that they cannot put their coupler any further up inside their gooseneck hitch.So they're going to have to go with the plate because the spider was simply too tall. They couldn't adjust their trailer to the right height to haul it level. Both the hitch adapters are going to install the same way; simply lift it up and drop it into place. Both the spider and the gooseneck plate are going to come with four pins so that you don't have to rely on your pins from your fifth wheel to be able to get it locked into place. Both of the hitches are going to have the same weight capacities. It's going to have a 25,000 pound gross towing weight and a 6,250 pound tongue weight. Both of these hitches are going to have a carbide black powder coat, which is going to be stronger than just your standard powder coat. You're not going to have to worry about it, shipping or flaking, and then potentially rusting your hitch.With that being said, the hitch is made of a sturdy steel construction. And it will say Curt did a very good job of making this out of a very thick quarter inch steel. So when it comes down to it, they're both going to be made out of the same materials. The spider is going to be a little bit heavier and bulkier to put down into place, and it's going to stick up higher, as we went over. They're both going to feature a 2 5/16 ball. So you're not going to have to worry about them being different in that aspect. What it's really going to come down to is what are you using it for And what are you using it with If you have a short bed truck and you have a camper that you're towing with this and that your camper has a gooseneck coupler on it, or maybe you have a horse trailer that has a larger nose, and you'd like a little bit more space for the cab of your truck to have some more clearance. I would definitely go with the Curt plate. If you have a long bed truck, or you have a short bed truck, but you're just hauling a trailer with a simple gooseneck coupler on it, and you don't have any clearance issues. Then I'd go with the spider.
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (231 Customer Reviews)
Wow, fast delivery and fits snug in the rails. Very impressed with adaptor and customer service. We use it to pull a 16 ft. Livestock trailer. Way better then a bumper pull for us. 472317
I have been an E trailer customer for over 8 years now. I was not surprised when my hitch showed up ahead of schedule and installed with ease. Great work from a great company. 471447
Fits like a glove very pleased thank you 410425
Very very pleased worked perfectly with my rail system and is super easy to install. Very fast delivery with just the free delivery ordered on 4/13 and received it 4/17.. only thing i will say is its a little taller then i thought it would be but on a non lifted truck there would be completely no problem my truck does have a lift so does make the trailer sit more unlevel then a flat bed mount would but im still extremely pleased with it... will definitely use this company again for anything i need... 497547
Somehow the hitch and the bolts made it but I am not sure how. The packaging was crazy. Holes in it then it had been wrapped and stapled with cardboard all around. The delivery company left it in a yard swing in my front yard. I just happen to see it. No note on the door or anything. I have no idea how long it had been there. This is no reflection on etrailer because you guys are great and were a wonderful help to me in getting me what I need. I really appreciate you all and will do business with you again and tell others to also! Thanks a million! 226129
Debra B - 09/19/2016Excellent hitch. Fast delivery. Fit perfect to my rails. 898642
Perfect fit for rail system, very well made 898556
Nice verity of products. Easy to navigate website. Even received my hitch early. Keep up the good work. 896189
894679
The fit was perfect and the hitch is performing perfectly. It's a quality product. 893065
It has worked very well for what I need, I like to be able to switch back and fourth from gooseneck to fifth wheel, this is a great product highly recommend it!!! 891779
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Installed into the rail system and pins in great 859427
Easy to use and attach to the rails of our 5th whrel hitch. Works smooth and is a solid secure hitch. Happy to use it. 852916
it fit our Reese 5th wheel hitch rails perfectly. We hooked our gooseneck 4 horse trailer to it and it pulled just fine. 851726
Been using it to tow my BIG TEX dump trailer, easy to take off whenever not needed. QUALITY STUFF!!! 829676
It’s it’s a good hitch Just hooking up the chains is a little Difficult because of where they have you hook them up at wishThey came out of the top instead of the side 820954
Product was a fifth wheel installation kit. Product was as advertised. Simple to order. Delivered immediately. 818204
Worked as it should, well built easy to put on and remove when extra room is needed, nice powder coating. 800708
It's easy to put in and take out and it's not real big and bulky 793503
Just got back from a 500 mile trip. The Spyder hitch took about 1 min. to install and worked great pulling my 10,000 pound trailer. Thanks! 783608
Great product and great service 779093
Easy install 776216
Very satisfied, great product. 776139
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