GN hitch?

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Is this a GN receiver for hitch? I’ve tried researching but can find anything of one looking like this one. I also can’t find a ball that would maybe even fit in it
 

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First off: Where is it in the truck bed? Centered side to side? Where in relation to the axle? Have you gone underneath to see what is there?
 

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Tell u8s about those 4 smaller holes in the bed. They're spaced about right for a large gooseneck plate.
 

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Those are bolts driven through the bed and through the rail into the frame. Sorry my bed it dirty and hard to see in the pictures
 

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Looks like it “should” be for a gooseneck hitch just based on location, but I don’t recognize it. Maybe it’s a homemade or farm built setup. Two things make me think that. First, there’s no provision for safety chains. Secondly, I don’t see any way for a pin, etc. to secure a ball in place. Do you need a goose neck hitch?
 

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When I mentioned a large gooseneck plate I meant one such as in my truck. The ball flips up, and the plate is securely bolted to the frame. The lack of a safety chain attachment point in your truck can be explained by looking at my plate. I do not, however, see how the gooseneck ball can be safely attached. Is it possible that it has a pin which is applied by crawling under the truck?
 

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I'm wondering if it's remnants of one of the newer style of Gooseneck ball set-ups?? I've never had a chance to really look one of them over or use one. The kind I'm thinking about I think has a pull handle/thing coming out from under drivers side. Somehow pulling handle raises ball & latches it......I better shut up & let someone that has one explain how they work. LOL

Ken, the kind you have I've always called a "Hide-A-Ball." I have 2 of them in my long bed CCDually. First one I put in is centered 5" forward of rear axle. Second one is IIRC 17-18" forward of rear axle. This one I use for heavy loads, put weight up on steering axle.
 

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I’ll have to look when I get home, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have a pin to drive through. I need a GN hitch and was just wondering if that would work. It also looks like it had a place where gooseneck wiring would of been
 

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On my '92 when I got it it had plate stuff/channel iron under bed welded across to both sides of truck frame. with a big GN Ball Nut welded underneath. Above in bed only thing showing was small hole size of the threaded part of GN Ball. The GN Ball then was welded to about a 16x16x 3/8 steel plate. Start threading ball & plate thru bed floor till tite, then hammer plate & ball real tite hitting safety chain hook-up thing.
BTW, yrs ago here in Oregon Stater had me nailed on some other stuff & he mentioned that on GN or 5th wheel we don't have to have safety chains in Oregon,... & sorta indicated that it might also be nation wide.
But would rather be chained up than get nailed by another one that thinks it's law.!! LOL LOL
 

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BTW, speaking of welding stuff/bracing etc under bed and/or across frame to frame, DO NOT if possible, DO NOT weld across top of frame or down side face of frame. Weld ONLY, ONLY along radius of frame , where top of frame curves over & down along face of frame.... and be careful even there.
More of a tendency for frame fatigue cracking if welded across top or/and down face of frame. However a good welder can do lots of good stuff even as I say "don't do it." LOL
 

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It definitely doesn’t have a nut. I’ll have to see when I get home and maybe get under it to get better pictures. I really need to figure out a gooseneck for it
 

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It could just be that some idiot used a regular 2 5/16 hitch ball and did nothing but tighten a nut on it.....or, there was a plate that bolted in the 4 holes, and the ball just sat in that hole for depth.

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