Peg Leg
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A lot of companies don't have 2012 info out, the 2011 will be the same. I've been checking 5er hitches for my new truck.
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xPIXx
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jalichty wrote:I find it hard to believe that a person could install the rails without at least drilling some holes in the bed of the truck. How else would you attach it to the frame, even with the brackets?
He said the frame not the bed
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57 Panhead
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jalichty wrote:I find it hard to believe that a person could install the rails without at least drilling some holes in the bed of the truck. How else would you attach it to the frame, even with the brackets?
Re-read the OP. He wasn't talking about drilling into the bed, he wants to avoid drilling into the FRAME.
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maryvillept
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What you guys don't think suction cups would work? I'd even use the industrial kind
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ExRocketScientist
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maryvillept wrote:What you guys don't think suction cups would work? I'd even use the industrial kind
That would work at first. They would fail as soon as:
1. You hitched the trailer up.
2. The sun degraded the material and they dry rot.
I don't think my duct tape idea would work any better. Some eternabond tape, if enough of it is used, should hold the hitch in the bed for several years until you either get in an accident, or try to tow the trailer with it that way.
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JIMNLIN
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I suppled my own brackets that were 4" x 4" x 1/2"t x 4" long steel angles on my Dodge truck for the dealer to weld to my trucks frame when the hitch was installed in '03. The brackets supplied were only 3/8" to 7/16" thick steel angles.
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SlickWillie
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Cequent Towing is the manufacturer. Etrailer is a distributor. Clicky
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up2nogood
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JIMNLIN wrote:I suppled my own brackets that were 4" x 4" x 1/2"t x 4" long steel angles on my Dodge truck for the dealer to weld to my trucks frame when the hitch was installed in '03. The brackets supplied were only 3/8" to 7/16" thick steel angles.
Was there a reason to go that heavy on the brackets, custom brackets are 1/4 or 5/16 plate ??
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