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Today on our 2016 Ford F250 we're going to be taking a look at the B&W Turnover Ball Underbed Gooseneck Hitch, part number BWGNRK1111. Here's what our gooseneck looks like fully installed. It's going to be great because it's going to allow you to tow all of your gooseneck trailers. Now, when it's in the locked position the ball's going to not be able to come out, and that's the position we're going to use when we're towing. Now, in the unlocked position, we can remove the ball and we can flip it over. Now we have full access to our full bed. Now here, we have our spring loaded safety chain loops, so we're still going to be able to put our safety chains on, but they're not going to interfere when we're loading anything up in our bed.
Now, this hitch features a 2 5/16 ball. Now, it does have a square mount, so you don't have to worry about it turning inside the hitch. It also has a 7,500 pound vertical load limit, which is the amount that is going to be pulling on it. It has a 30,000 pound gross towing weight. Now, I do want to mention you want to double check with your vehicle's owner's manual to make sure that your vehicle can handle that weight capacity. Now here on the driver's side, you can see we have this black handle.
If we pull all the way out and slightly rotate it to the left and push the handle towards the cab of the truck, it'll lock into place and allow us to remove our ball, flip it over, and then we can gain access to our bed. If we turn it back and release it, it'll lock our ball into place. As you can see, it's going to be a multi-piece design. We're going to have a crossbar here as well as here that attach to our center section. Then we're going to have side plates on either side of the driver and passenger side.
Now that we've gone over some of the features, we're going to go ahead and show you how we got it installed. To begin our installation we're going to need to remove our spare tire. This is just going to make it easier so we have got more room under the truck. Our next step is going to be measuring where we're going to be putting our hole in our bed. Now, if we take our tape measure here, and I made a mark right here. Next we're going to measure the distance between the two wheel wells and where the center matches up with our intersecting line, that's where we're going to be drilling our hole.
Now, before we drill our 4 inch hole I'm going to be drilling a pilot hole with a 1/4 inch drill bit. Now I want to mention here, what I'm using here is just a piece of wood that I use my hole saw and cut a 4 inch hole in it. That way, it'll keep the hole saw from jumping around, and I can keep it steady by standing on it while I'm drilling. Now I'm just going to come back and vacuum up all my metal shavings and clean it up a little bit. Now, since we did just drill a hole and we have bare metal here, I do want to mention to be careful, because it is going to be sharp. I'm going to take a paint marker, and I'm just going to paint around the edge to give it a little bit of extra protection against rust. Our next step after we've drilled our hole, we're going to come back. Right here is going to be our heat shield, right next to our hole above our axle, and right above our exhaust. Now this is just glued on, but we're going to need to pull this heat shield down, and it's not going to be getting reinstalled because the hitch itself is actually going to act as a heat shield between our bed and our exhaust. If we just reach up and start working our way around, we can start pulling it down. Our next step is going to be removing our exhaust bracket right here, just behind the axle on the passenger side. Now, there's going to be a bolt coming from the bottom going up, and there's also going to be one on the inside of the frame rail that's going to be going out. I'm going to be using a 10 millimeter socket to remove these. Now with our bolts removed, I'm going to slide our bracket forward and pop it off the rest of the way. Now, you may need to get a pair of pliers or a pry bar to take this off fully. We're going to set this aside, because it will be reinstalled later. Now, on some applications we're going to come up to our cross member here between the frame and our bed, and just right behind that we're going to have the put a notch in so we can get our bars in for our gooseneck. I'm going to come over, and like I said, just a little bit behind that cross member and we're just going to put triangle shape just like that, and we're going to cut a notch out right here. Now I'm going to be using a rotary tool to cut out our notch here. Now wi
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