DIY Install: Curt Custom 5th Wheel Installation Kit for Ford on your 2016 Ford F-250 Super Duty

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Ryan: Hey, everybody. Ryan here at etrailer.com. Today on our 2016 Ford F-250 Super Duty, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Curt custom fifth wheel installation kit. Now these are going to allow us to install a fifth wheel. They're built to last from a very solid construction and they're going to require less drilling than universal kits. Now what's nice about these is when you're not using a fifth wheel, you can take it out and these are going to be the only thing that's left and as you can see, they don't stick up real high or take up a whole lot of space in the bed.

Another solid design. It's going to put your mind at ease knowing that you're going to be safely traveling with you're fifth wheel as you go down the road. So now you can be the person who has the truck and the tools to haul a trailer for maybe work or for even play. Now one of the hardest parts about picking a kit out it that there's so many different options available on the market.Well, these are nice because they're custom fit specifically for your application. So whether you're experienced or new to fifth wheel towing, these are going to be a good choice because you know they're going to work for your truck.

Now one of the things you have to may attention to when you're towing a fifth wheel trailer is when you're going around really tight turns, you're going to want to make sure that your trailer doesn't make contact with the cab of your truck. Now one of the things to combat that is to get a slider hitch. Now the Curt slider hitch is what I personally would recommend and it is compatible with our installation kit and one of the things I'd recommend to top everything off is some fifth wheel wiring. Now that would typically go in this area here. That's where your plug would be and that would eliminate the need to have to droop any wiring over your tailgate and some of the other compatible hitches that'll work with our setup is the Draw-Tite, the Hidden Hitch, Husky, Reese and Valley.Now, all of our components, including our brackets, are going to have a carbine black finish, which will help keep everything looking good and since everything is custom fit to your truck, installation is going to take about half the time over a universal kit.

Speaking of installation, let's go ahead and do it together now. To begin our installation, we're first going to have to take a few measurements. Now we're going to measure from the end of our bed, not the tailgate. So you put your tailgate down and measure from the end of your bed, up here a little bit past the center of our bed. Now you're going to find that measurement in your instructions.

Now what I also like to do while I'm up here is find the center of our bed so you can measure from side to side and put a dot where the center is. Now you can do this a few different ways.But how I do it, once I have verified the center and the length and have it marked, I actually take my rail and I measure that and find the center of my rail and put a mark there as well. So once we have all that done, we can align all of our marks and measure it one more time just to make sure that we're spot on. So I'm going to measure from this side to the edge of our rail and make sure that distance is the same as this side over here and then I also like to measure from the end of our bed to the top and maybe one or two spots to make sure it is exactly straight across. Now once you've verified our rail is in the correct position, we're gonna take a marker and in the center of these outside holes, put a dot. We're going to do that on both sides and then this hole in the center that's closest to the back of the truck.Now once we have that done, we can take a center punch and a hammer and we're going to make a small indention in all of our spots that we marked. Now what we're going to do is put our side plate onto the frame and make sure that our hole lines up. Now these are side specific and so the side that has one tab, that's going to face the front of the truck and the tabs are going to face outward towards you. So what we're going to do is kind of put this in place. Just hold it up. What we're wanting to do is verify that the indention we made with our punch is going to be lined up as close to the center of that hole as possible and as you can see, we're spot on on this side. We're going to do the same thing to the passenger side. Once you verified it, you can take your plate down and just set it to the side for now.We'll just kind of push this out of the way and then I'm going to be drill a pilot hole in al