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Hitch-to-Truck Bed Integration using 5th Wheel Puck System

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A NEW Boss back plow

What happens here

The core innovation highlighted is the integration of the gooseneck hitch system with the truck's factory-installed 5th wheel puck system (specifically a Reese system on this Ram truck). This design eliminates the need for any drilling into the truck's frame or bed for installation. The main hitch assembly simply drops into the existing pucks. This allows the entire hitch system to be easily removed by pulling a few pins and actuating the lift mechanism, leaving the truck bed completely unobstructed for other uses. This offers significant versatility compared to dedicated undercarriage systems that are permanently mounted.

Goal: This step details how the Boss Drag Pro 180Z integrates with the truck's existing 5th wheel puck system, emphasizing the no-drill installation and ease of full removal.

Tools and materials

  • Boss Drag Pro 180Z Hitch Assembly

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stop so they have I we're talking 38 or/ in stop both sides if you look down here you can see it's in right now and this is a stop where was your stop our stop was like two squares and the hinge had to be welded exactly right and then it was too fine it was too hard to FB fac okay so they put it out here and it's just built right in and look how far it goes back into the plow and the wing so the hinge now is on the outside back corner yeah and the stops just okay now on the on the snow power you were flush before right so yeah we we have two flats and and it would sit in there like this and then as it went our cut has to be just right for it to hit it was just really hard to get it right okay and that also put us to the Bell crank here we had a turnbuckle right here so we could adjust it because we wanted to make sure we were hitting our stops and because our stops weren't precise like this so they were able with their Engineers to make this all solid so it just bolts in now did you help them design this kind of this is almost like the snow power version 2.0 with the upgrades and all the little tweaks that you wanted to see done is that true or not I don't know Rick I'm literally asking design it but what I told them what I wanted to make better and then they ran with it and then I went up I think six times looking at it last year uh they're just announcing now but this happened last year let's introduce John John is actually the engineer that worked on this right you're one of the guys that you you went off from Rick's original design and then you started to modify it and then every time you had a question you would call Rick in and then you guys would work together and then you had whole team building this brand new version am I right right or wrong so as we were coming out with our previous drag Pro product last year when we came to Market with that um the snow power product actually came out at a similar time and we saw what Rick was doing with his hitch design and we kind of scratched our heads and thought Oh I don't know about that and as the winter went on we realized that you could uh probably hook up a lot of beefier plow to that it's a lot stiffer than having distinct under carriages for every vehicle like we had yeah so we were very interested in it that's what started the

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