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Hey guys, Shane here with etrailer.com. Today I have a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. Now I want to walk you how to install BMW's under-bed gooseneck fifth wheel trailer hitch receiver. Having this setup is going to allow you to utilize your bed space when you're not pulling a trailer. But on the other side of that, it's going to give you your gooseneck hookup, and you can also install a fifth wheel slider with this same setup. The benefit of having this setup being able to use either a fifth wheel or gooseneck is maybe you pull a gooseneck trailer through the week, and then you have a fifth wheel that you want to pull on the weekends.
This being a short bed truck, I would recommend if you're going to go to the fifth wheel side, is to pick up the companion fifth wheel slider, and that's by BMW also.The ball is going to be 2-5/16", you're going to notice it has a square base. It's going to have holes on all sides, so it can go in any way, the square base is going to keep the ball from twisting inside of the hole. You'll notice that the edges here are kind of curved. What that does is, while this is in here, it allows dirt and debris to fall out of the bottom and not get caught inside of there. Weight capacities for this, we're going to have a 30,000 lbs gross towing weight.
We're going to have a 7,500 lbs vertical load limit, which is straight up and down on the ball. So you want to make sure you check your vehicle's owner's manual, make sure the vehicle can withstand that amount of weight. You always want to go with the lowest number between the vehicle and the hitch.Another nice benefit to this, is this is a turnover ball. So what we can do is we take this when we're not towing a trailer, slide it down inside and you can see it's nice and flat and against our bed. We come over here and our safety chain loops or safety chain hooks.
You can see here, they're in the lower part of the corrugation, so they sit nice and tight. So if we're still want to put plywood, drywall or anything in here, we can still maintain the use of the whole bed. They're going to be spring loaded, you can see they stay nice and tight down to the bed when we're not using them. And if we're going to put a hook on, we got to hook to our trailer, you can see they're not going to stay raised up in the air. Again, pulls our hook even down tight to the bed.As far as our handle, it's very simple to use, it's going to have a nice rubber coating on it.
To lock it open, you simply pull it out, twist and it locks open, it allows you to put your ball in the upright or stored position. To unlock it and slide the pin over, you just twist it back and let it go and it's going to lock that device in place.Overall, my professional opinion, if I was looking for an under bed hitch, I would go with BMW. The construction of it is outstanding, all the components are a really, really thick steel. It's going to have a nice thick gray powder coat finish that's really going to hold up well against rust and corrosion. And this one is very simple to put in, it's pretty simple and straightforward. It's going to come with all the hardware, there's not going to be any drilling or major modifications. The only thing we're going to have to do is our two holes for each of our safety chain loops, and our hole right in the center. Everything else bolts together, right to the frame rails, again, very simple, straightforward to put in.To start your installation, it's a good idea to remove your spare tire. We can do this and we can start a couple of different ways. You can start underneath the truck and there's going to be a heat shield, you have to lower your exhaust and stuff like that. But what I like to do is start up here with a hole I'm going to put in the bed, that way I'm not going back and forth a bunch of times. In the back of the bed, we're going to measure from the edge of our bed, make sure it's not to tailgate, from the edge of the bed per the instructions, right up the center, and we need to Mark that.Keep in mind, if you have a drop-in bed liner, which is a plastic one, you need to remove it. Does he have a spray in bed liner You want to add on that measurement for the thickness of the bed liner. So I'm going to add on a 16th to an 8th of an inch to my measurement when a mark on the center rib, just going to put a little dot. Then what we need to do is measure between our wheel-wells, divide that in half, and that will be our center mark. Next I'm going to take a 4" hole saw bit, with the drill bit, and I'm going to drill this hole out. What I like to do is take a piece of plywood, use that b
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