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Today on our 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, we're going to take a look at and show you how to install the B&W turnover ball. This is an underbed gooseneck trailer hitch with custom installation kit, rated for 30,000 pounds. Part number is BWGNRK1057. Now, here's what our gooseneck's going to look like installed when we're not using it. As you can see, it's going to give us full access into the bed, not really all that noticeable. We'll be able to move things in and out of here without any real kind of an issue.
When we're ready, we can draw out our 2-5/16" ball, flip it over, slide it in, and then by simply twisting our locking handle on the side, we'll hear our 5/8 diameter pin click through the pin hole, and it'll be locked in position. Now, this is a fully machined ball core, what we drop the ball down into. It's got the square hole in it that's going to match up with the square hole in our ball. That's going to prevent any kind of turning, and it's also going to prevent that wallowing out effect, and give us a nice, quiet ride while we head down the road. This is capable of supporting 7,500 pounds straight down on our ball, and a total gross trailer weight rating of 30,000 pounds. You want to check the manual on your truck, of course, make sure it's rated for those kind of loads.
If not, go off of whichever of those numbers are the lowest. We've got really convenient safety chain connection points here. They're spring loaded. Pull them up, we can make our connections when we need to, and then when we don't, they're made to fit into the lower part of the bed, minimizing any overhang or anything that might come up above our bed rails. With the installation kit, it's pretty straightforward on how you're going to get this installed. There's no welding, no drilling, or anything like that that we need to do to the frame of the vehicle.
Of course, we'll have to make our hole here for the gooseneck itself to pass out of, and then a couple of the holes for our U bolts to pass through, but outside of that, no real modifications to be done. Now, with the gooseneck, we can covert this using the B&W companion to a fifth wheel, if you have fifth wheel and gooseneck trailers that you'd like to use. There's also a ladder rack that's designed for it. The B&W offers a really nice powder coat finish, so it should last a long time. Not going to have a lot of rust, and corrosion, and things like that that we'll have to deal with. First thing we want to do is get our spare tire lowered down and out of the way.
We're also going to lower down our exhaust here, just by pulling this hanger off. A little bit of spray lubricant usually helps. Let's also separate the two that are just in front of our axle here. It may be a good idea to support it with a safety strap there, under the main muffler. Now, we're going to come just in front of the rear axle here. You'll see a cross member. Let's clean the heat shield off right below that. We're going to trim it just across this line, which would be just behind the front edge. We're going to go up to the next cross member up from there, and we're going to trim it just inside its edge, as well. Now, we can use some tin snips . We're going to use just a cutting wheel, and we'll get that cut out on both those lines, and we can remove that portion of the heat shield. Once that's cut on both sides, you just pull it out and set it aside. Now, if we take a look in our instructions, it's going to give us a measurement. In this case, it's going to be from the back of our bed forward. We just want to mark that out on our bed. If you have a spray in bed liner, you need to account for that distance. That's going to be our front to back line, and now we need to center that between the two rails on the truck, so wherever we can find a good stop point. Then, we'll need to take our 4" hole saw, center our bit right in the center of our hole, and go ahead and drill it out. Now, if your truck's equipped with the fender liners, it's time to pull those out. We're going to have 13 screws that hold them in place, using a T15 bit. Now, if we pull each edge out, kind of around to the corner there, and then pull down on the middle section, it should just kind of slide out for us, you see there. Then, we can go over to the driver's side and we'll do that exact same thing. Here in the passenger side wheel well, we want to come fro
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