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Looking for ideas on how to connect my GenY gooseneck hitch on my 5th wheel to ball in center of truck bed when I cannot see the ball using center-light camera. I have a toolbox and it blocks my view.
I have a Goosebox and can't see the ball either. If I don't have a spotter I just get out and look (a lot) as I slowly back into position. I've thought about buying one of the tennis ball type hitch aids so I can see the things coming together but haven't yet. Sounds easy enough, one ball on top of the hitch and one above the ball in the bed. When the ***** come together you're ready to lower the trailer...
Looking for ideas on how to connect my GenY gooseneck hitch on my 5th wheel to ball in center of truck bed when I cannot see the ball using center-light camera. I have a toolbox and it blocks my view.
Remove the toolbox?
If you're incapable of hooking up a trailer like thousands if not, 10's thousands of trailers are done throughout the years without a camera, perhaps you should ask yourself if if you're qualified.
I cannot help you with a common practice.
However
If you cannot see remove toolbox.
If hooked up would toolbox interfere with 5th wheel
How did we do it b4 cameras??
As mentioned maybe don't do it.
Wow! Tough crowd! Everybody has to learn, right. Or were some of you guys born knowing everything?
OP, the tennis ball trick works good. Or if possibe, I have mounted an old truck mirror on the gooseneck, looking down at the hitch in such a way that I could see it in the rearview. Worked pretty good.
I realize this won’t work with the aluminum, but I have also set a “sweeper magnet” (for lack of a better term) with a four foot handle right in front of the ball. Center the handle with the hitch, as soon as the hitch hits the handle, I am there.
When I had a 5th wheel on a 2016 Super Duty with no cameras at all, I used a magnet mount camera with a remote display that plugged into the truck's 12 volt dash outlet. Just tucked it all back into a door pocket when the trailer was hooked up. I'd set the camera right onto the 5th wheel plate.
I've since gotten out of the 5th wheel world and also have a truck with 360 cameras now, so this thing has been sitting unused for quite some time.
Damn, I wish I was born an expert like so many on this forum.
Looking for ideas on how to connect my GenY gooseneck hitch on my 5th wheel to ball in center of truck bed when I cannot see the ball using center-light camera. I have a toolbox and it blocks my view.
When we htch up I back up nd my wife tells me how much farher to the ball. She then drops it down onto the ball.
After reading some of the comments I probably shouldn't say how I do it with our fifth wheel with a Reese Goose Box. I do use the high mounted camera to get it lined up but also have a camera mounted under bed rail lined up with the hitch ball. Our fifth wheel came with a Furrion back up/observation camera and monitor. I bought the extra camera on Amazon and it works perfectly. I can hit the ball every time without needing an observer or getting out of the truck.
Not experts by any means, just old timers that were able to live and learn without all this technology that will fail you.
I have backup assist, however I will never use it as I am plenty capable without it.
Technology has become full time babysitters for to many, and will leave them stranded when it fails.
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