Ordered sidewinder
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Ordered sidewinder
I ordered a Reese Sidewinder from Cal Hitch and I can't wait to try it. Still need to get another 600 miles on my truck till I cal pull my 5er. I hope I will like it, did not get much feedback from my thread here. Hope no poped rear windows with this truck.
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Yea I usually drive a new vehicle from day one the way I plan to drive it normally. I can give this one 1000. Don't have any trips planed till June. I to just want see how my new truck pulls compared to my 2000 7.3.
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Our trailer in sig. came with it from the factory. Even with our truck having a eight foot bed I still like the sidewinder ,I keep a full size tool box in the bed and I can jack it over 90 deg. and it only comes within 5in. of the tool box , so that's over 2 feet from the back window .Only thing I can add is check your top turret bolts from time to time and retorque as nessary ,mine tend to get a touch loose from time to time so I made it part of my pre trip routine to check/torque them.
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Wow, received my Sidewinder today, should have eaten my Wheaties today took all I had to put the boxes in the truck. Going to need some help to install. Figure I can put it in the hitch to build then jack it up to connect to the 5er. Anybody have any experience and can give me some pointers? 
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Put my sidewinder on my 5er today, could not have been easier. Put it together on my tail gate. took all but 2 bolts out of the old pin box. Hooked up to my truck and puller the other 2 bolts out, drive forward and wolla. I then put my 3ton jack under the turret backed up under the pin box mount, jacked the new pin box into place. I then put all the bolts in, lowered the jack, pulled the truck out. Tightened all the bolts and I was done, not too bad all alone eh?
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