etrailer | Curt Fifth Wheel - Sliding Fifth Wheel - C16515-16020 Review

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Today we're going to review the Curt E16 fifth wheel trailer hitch with the slider for the Ford towing prep package vehicles. It has a 16,000 lbs. weight capacity. This is a custom fit part. It is designed to fit the Ford F-250 and F-350 super duty trucks with the 6-3/4' bed, and have the factory rail kit in them. This is for years of vehicles starting in 2011.

What I would recommend on any custom fit part is to always go to our website, use our fit guide. Put in your year and model vehicle, and it will show you if this will work for your application. This fifth wheel hitch will mount in your truck bed, so you can tow your fifth wheel trailer. This part includes this hitch head, and the slider as shown here. I am demonstrating it on this display stand that has the under-bed rails attached to it that would be on your Ford truck. This is going to show you how it is attached in your truck bed.

It has a built-in slider right here. This will provide the clearance that is required for your short bed truck to turn safely at slow speeds. It does slide very smoothly on these rounded, non-binding rods. The slider handle that will lock and unlock the slider .. it is color coded, and I'm going to show you in a minute the color on it.

Right here, since it's locked in the tow position right now, this green ring is showing on this side of the handle. That means it's locked and you can tow with it. When you pull this handle out to slide it, there will be a red ring over here that will show. When that red ring will show, that means you don't want to do any towing because it's unlocked. The slider is not in the locked position. This does use, as I mentioned, the rail-free design.

This uses the . it's made to mount into the Ford factory under-bed rails like I'm showing here. If there's no rails in the truck bed, when you remove the hitch from your truck bed, it will allow you free and full access to your truck bed. This does use an auto-locking slide bar jaw right here. This will provide superior security. The rear tension bar, right in here, works with the slide bar right up here to clamp around your king pin . helps minimize rattle and any movement in the head. This is a easy to remove, and you can actually do it with one person. You can take these clips off and these two pins. Remove the head. If you open these up, you can remove the slider from there . makes it very easy for one person to remove it and give you the full access to your truck bed. It does use a dual pivoting head . goes front-to-back. The skid plate goes side-to-side as a 10 degree lateral movement for simple hook up. It does use permalube pivot pushings on the head. It increases your hitch life and reduces maintenance. The skid plate is an anti-rattle skid plate, provides a nice, smooth, quiet ride. We do recommend to use a nylon lube plate when you're hooking up. This one does not come with it. We do list one. We sell one separately that's listed on this product pages of related product. It's part number 16721. We recommend to use that on your king pin, because when you do, that'll help prevent scratches on the skid plate and lets the king pin glide a lot more smoother into the hitch during hook-up. Installing this into the truck bed is a pretty fast and easy installation. Basically what you'll do is open up these handles right here, unlock the pin, and then just turn the handle 90 degrees. You'll do the same on that side. Once you've turned it 90 degrees, that'll unlock those tabs, and then you'll be able to lift this out of the pucks that are in you under-bed rails. When you go to install it, just drop it . Leave it open like that. Drop it in to the pucks on the under-bed rails. Turn these 90 degrees, and that'll turn the tabs on those pins, and it'll lock it into place. Then just put your pin through the first handle. Make sure it goes through the second handle. Clip it into place, and that holds the latches into place. That'll keep it locked into place . Very simple installation. All this is a nice sturdy steel construction. It has a nice carbide black finish to it. A few specs . The gross towing weight capacity is 16,000 lbs. Vertical load limit, or pin-weight capacity is 4,000 lbs. The amount of travel with the slider is 12" front-to-back. Basically, I will first show you how the head would work, so I got an example of a king pin here. This is what the king pin would look like that's on your pin-box of your trailer. First thing you want to do is . Your handle right here it's pointing down, so it's in the locked position. What you'll do is jus