etrailer | B and W Underbed Gooseneck Trailer Hitch Installation - 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 3500

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Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 3500 we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the B&W Turnover Ball Underbed Gooseneck Trailer Hitch with Custom Installation Kit, part number BWGNRK1016.Here's what our hitch looks like fully installed. It's going to allow us to tow a gooseneck trailer down the road. Now, it is an underbed installation kit, which means it's going to go underneath the bed so it's not going to take up a whole lot of room. All we're going to have sticking out is the ball and just barely two safety chain loops right above the bed. Our safety chain loops are going to sit pretty low against the bed here, but they are spring loaded, and as you can see they're going to give us plenty of room to even get those oversized hooks in there.The hitch is going to give us a 2-5/16 ball, and unlike a lot of kits, the ball is going to have a square design to it, which is going to reduce any kind of movement or the possibility of the ball turning inside the hitch. Now, when we're not towing we do have the option to actually put the ball in upside down, and now we have full bed access and it has a nice little tab right here that we can just reach in and pull it out, and it'll be ready whenever we're ready to tow.Now, what you're really going to like about our B&W hitch here is, is that there is several different products that are available, sold separately, that are going to make it very easy to customize your hitch and make them to where they suit your needs.

Such as a fifth wheel adapter so you can tow a fifth wheel hitch, and a utility rack that's not going to take up your bed side rails. Now, our hitch is going to feature a steel construction with a nice gray powder coat finish, which is going to look nice on any truck, and it is a custom install kit, which is going to cut down a lot on our install time and we're not going to have to do any kind of welding.Another big benefit of our hitch here is unlike a lot of the older ones, the bed can stay on the truck, and we're not going to have to move it at all. Our hitch is going to feature a 7,500 pound vertical load limit, along with a 30,000 pound gross trailer weight rating. Now, I do want to mention, you always want to double check your Silverado's owner's manual to make sure you don't exceed the manufacturer's recommended weight. Now that we've seen what our hitch looks like and gone over some of the features, let's show you how to get it installed.To begin our installation we're going to need to mark the point where we're going to be drilling a hole in our bed.

We're going to find the measurements in our instructions, and that's going to depend on what kind of bed you have, if you have a full 8 foot bed or if you have a shorter bed. We're going to measure the length right there at the edge of the tailgate. Just hook your tape measure on the edge of the bed, you don't want to go past that and go onto the tailgate itself.Once we have the length measured out, we're going to find the center point between our bed. You can just measure from wheel well to wheel well and make a mark, and where those two lines intersect, that's going to be our point that we're going to make our pilot hole. I'm going to take a rather small drill bit, I'm going to drill right in the center of those two lines as my pilot hole, and then I'm going to come back and enlarge the hole.We're going to need to cut a 4 inch hole in our bed, so I'm going to be using a hole saw.

To help me from scratching up my bed and the bit jumping around, I just took a board and I have several different holes cut in it that I just use the hole saw itself. That way, it gives you a little bit more stability, and you can stand on it and keep that bit from moving around. When you're cutting through, you're going to want to use high speed and low pressure, and it'll cut just fine. It's never a good idea to leave exposed metal on your vehicle, because it leaves it open for rust and corrosion. I'm going to take a little bit of spray paint, and I'm going to spray it on the inside of the hole I cut, hopefully covering up that bare metal.If we move to our passenger side wheel well, we are going to have to remove the liner.

If we look, we're going to have these little torques bolts holding them in place. There's going to be a total of 13 of them. We're going to be using a T15 torques bit to pull them out. Once you have the bolts removed, just want to pull on the wheel well liner, start getting it loose and working it out. You may have to bend and fold it in a little bit, you can pull it out.Behind our li