Fifth Wheel Trailer Hitch Installation - 1998 Ford F-150 and F-250 Light Duty

www.etrailer.com Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information. Today on this 1998 Ford F-150 we will be installing the fifth wheel rails and brackets part number 50042-6008. We are up underneath the vehicle and we need to do a couple of things in preparation before we can get started. We first want to lower the spare tire and get that out of the way to give us a little bit more working room. Second we need to go ahead and lower the exhaust off of the rear most hanger here and what we are actually going to do is go ahead and unbolt it from the side of the frame. There is two nuts on the inboard side that we need to go ahead and take off. That will allow that to come down. Then after that we just need to remove the heat shield here as well. You will see that there are four screws that are holding that on that need to come down. We also need to remove the forward heat shield as well. With the under body stuff finished we can go ahead and go up inside of the bed and go ahead and set up our front rail here. 01:17 You want to check the dimension that is listed in the instructions here to insure the proper placement of the front rail. It looks like for short and long bed models both, we are going to be mounting it at 51 3/ 32 inches to the back of the rail here. Then from there we just want to center it in between the wheel wells. Get that in place. And now that we have got the rails centered we can go ...