finally got my gooseneck put in, its just a simple turn over, now i can pull my lowboy

is there a harness i can buy at TSC it mount in my bed? i know i can buy an 7way like i have by my reciever hitch but i didnt know if they made a fancy kit?

 

There is a fancy kit, you would just have to look on the net for it. I personally think that they are over rated, 90% of all goosenecks have a cord long enough to get to the bumper plug, why spend the extra money unless you are going to need two plugs at once.

 

I'd think that they would make something of a kit, probably by Drawtite or some other manufacturer... but whether or not Tractor Supply has it or not, who knows.

Go waste some time and take a walk through the store and see what they have.

 

im just going to buy something and mount it in the bed floor next to the plate. it would really bother me if the cord ran all the way to the bumper.

 

They make a mounting plate just for the in bed mount. But you won't like it once it's in. As soon as I say this a thousand voices are gonna jump in and say mine works great, so be it. Years in the trailer business and I can say that almost every one of them that I have seen installed causes nothin but problems in the long run. Personally I carry an extension cord that I made myself just in case I should ever happen on a trailer that doesn't have a cord long enough to plug into the bumper. Don't think I've ever used it more then once or twice in 10 plus years.

To install the in bed plug, you have to make yet another wire tap into your harness. This just adds another source of possible corrosion and an all around weak spot. The biggest problem I have found with them though is the fact that in the winter your bed fills up with snow and packs in and melts into this plug. This leads to all sorts of problems with corrosion and shorting the lights out.

Just an opinion, we all got em.

 

im still running a bed mat(which is held down by the front bed bolts) so the mat covers up the hitch and the plug if i deside to mount it in the floor. so im not to worried about stuff getting in the plug.




have you ever used the yellow curly cord trailer hook up?

 

Sold em but never used em. I always had scrap cable and plugs layin around from projects so I always just made my own cords. I'm to cheap spend money when I don't have to. They work just fine though, nothin really to go wrong with em. They're to simple to have any problems.

 

cool, im going to go buy one, i think they look neat, kinda a big truck flare them

 

is to put it in the sidewall... not the floor of the bed, if you put it there you will not ruin it in the winter months with snow, or when hauling a nasty four wheeler in the bed or anything like that...
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Hope this helps out...