Bolting a fifth-wheel mounting bracket to your truck frame usually means one person holding a nut under the bed while another runs a wrench up top. Nut Tab Technology gets rid of that second pair of hands. PullRite builds the captive nut right into the bracket, so one person can do the whole job from the top side of the bed. It is faster, easier, and far more likely to end up torqued the way it should be.
What Nut Tab Technology Is
Our custom mounting brackets ship with small metal tabs that hold the nuts in place. To set them, you gently bend a Nut Tab down, drop a serrated flange nut into the slot, and bend the tab back. The nut is now captured. It can't spin and it can't fall out while you work.
Once the bracket and hardware are positioned on the frame, you climb up top and finish the rest of the install from inside the bed. No reaching blind underneath. No holding a wrench against a nut you can't see.
The Slotted Holes Do the Aligning
The bracket holes and the Nut Tabs are slotted, not fixed. That means you can nudge each captured nut into line with a pencil, lining it up through the bed and the base rail without anyone underneath the truck. Slide it, drop the bolt, and tighten.
Why Hex Bolts Instead of Carriage Bolts
This is the part most people don't think about until it bites them. We use hex-head bolts in our bracket hardware because a hex head can be torqued from the top side of the bed.
Most manufacturers use carriage bolts to attach the base rails through the bed to the mounting bracket. A carriage bolt has a rounded head, so there's nothing up top for a torque wrench to grab. The only way to tighten it is from underneath, in tight quarters where running a torque wrench is awkward at best. In practice, a lot of those bed fasteners never get properly torqued, because it's just too hard to do it right down there.
Nut Tab Technology flips that problem on its head. The tab holds the flange nut and stops it from rotating, so every bolt can be fastened and torqued from the top side. You get a proper, to-spec install instead of a "good enough" one.
Built to Fit Existing Frame Holes
Drilling into a truck frame is slow, and it's the kind of thing that makes people nervous about a DIY install. We design most of our mounting brackets to use the holes already in your truck's frame, so we avoid drilling as often as possible. Fewer steps, less time, and a cleaner job.
Whether You Install It Yourself or Have It Done
For the DIYer
If you like working on your truck, this is a one-afternoon project. Because the nuts are captive and everything tightens from the top, you don't need a buddy on call to hold hardware underneath. One person, one afternoon, done.
For a Shop Install
If you'd rather have a dealer do it, time is money. The faster an installer can mount our brackets, the less labor you pay for. Nut Tabs make the torquing easier and quicker, which keeps the install bill down and gets your truck back to you sooner.
If You're Starting From Scratch
Don't have a towing system on the truck at all? Look at your mounting options before you buy a hitch. PullRite offers several mounting systems, and many of them carry the same engineering thinking that went into Nut Tab Technology. Some of our systems also feature Clean Bed Technology, which lets you reclaim a flat, open bed when the hitch is out. Pick the mount that fits your truck and how you tow, and the right hitch follows from there.
