With the camera system in the new truck I had very little difficulty hooking up. Only had a short tow with the new tRuck Goose Box but it tows and rides good and very smooth. This pin box not only has shocks but also a air bag within it. The Goose Box is much more sturdy that the factory pin box. I decided not to go with a fifth wheel hitch on this truck and make use of the goose neck ball and have better excess to the bed area without a large 5er hitch. I replaced my 5er pin box with a new Reece Goose Boox 20,000lb pin box. I recently purchased a new TV with custom hauler bed. I have the almost new rails off the other truck when I bought it. Notice the old Rhino lined rails that were in the truck from the fiver Reese hitch. Now when folks described it to me it made no sense until I had one. It fit and rode great and on my full size long bed truck! Well, I had them and my wife watching both sides as I tried a more than 90° jackknife turn and not only was the rig front fine, it rode perfectly with no close clearances! Amazing. Imagine our surprise when it hitched up fine because the trailer had been raised by the factory for taller modern trucks. ![]() But I doubted it could turn without the tailgate hitting the hitch on the trailer. Since mine had a Reese hitch the rails looked the same, so we unpinned it from their truck, and it pinned right into my old Reese fifth wheel rails perfectly. I didn't think it would work when the folks selling the Scamp brought it by because they had a much smaller 1500 truck. I bought it but had sold my Andersen, and my current truck only had a regular fifth wheel hitch in the bed. They come standard with a Reese 2" ball hitch. I believe the Scamp hitch I have now is the best of both worlds. All had the standard Holland type fifth wheel hitches except the one with the ball only. IMHO the best light duty engines ever made for modern diesels. I've owned all RAM, a 1ton diesel dually, two 3/4 ton diesel, and my current 3/4ton long bed Ram with the 2004.5 direct rail injection Cummins 5.9 that only came in the 2004.5/2005/2006/2007. ![]() I especially liked their fifth wheel pin to ball receptacle adapter. I liked the non clanking solid hitch connection. I loved the Andersen hitch I used for about a year in a truck that came only with a gooseneck ball.
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