Buyers Products Ball Mount w/ 2" Ball - 3/4" Rise, 2" Drop - 8-1/2" Long - 6k

Video Transcript for Buyers Products Ball Mount Review

What's up everybody, it's AIJ with etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna be checking out this Buyer's Products Ball Mount Kit. So it's gonna come with the shank, a two-inch ball and a pin and clip. That's a good starter kit to get that ball mount and so you can hook up your trailer and tow it behind you. Let's check it out. Taking a closer look at our ball mount, it's gonna have a two-inch drop or three-quarter-inch rise.

Whatever your trailer needs, you can set that up for it. And that would mean you'd have to flip the ball around and then torque this back down to get it there. But the good thing is, since you're getting this for your specific trailer, you're gonna know what you need. And even if you do have to flip it, you only gotta do that once. And it's good to go from there.

On the other side of that, though, if you have multiple trailers that you are gonna need to adjust that rise or drop, depending on which trailer you wanna use, we do have adjustable ball mounts that I suggest you look into on our site. Those are gonna be easier to adjust quicker and get you on the road. In the kit you also get a pin and clip. And I kinda like that because you know, not all of these ball mount kits come with that. Sometimes they give you everything but this part and you can't use it right when you open it up.

So I like this here, so I can use it. Now I would recommend getting a locking hitch pin that you can put in there. So you put that in there. We have an etrailer one that has a barrel lock on the other side, and you use the key to turn that and it'll thread onto the pin. And that's just gonna secure it there at the hitch.

And that means nobody can mess with it when you're not around. Or if you want to adjust that shake and play that can happen when it's in your hitch, you see it moves around, now it probably won't move around that much when you've got down pressure on it, but it will still move a little bit. What you can do is get an anti-rattle block or bolt that goes in here and you can slide the block in the hollow shank, and then you adjust it from the side and it's gonna take out that shake and play. So that's another option you can go with, with this ball mount. Our ball mount's gonna have a 6,000 pound gross trailer weight rating. And that's gonna be, that means pulling. That's what I can pull. And then it's gonna have a gross tongue weight rating of 600 pounds. So that's gonna be pushing down on it. Now we go ahead and lower the coupler down on our ball. It's gonna be a chrome-plated ball on our ball mount today. And so that's gonna help it hold up a little bit better than a black powder coat one. You know, that scratches kinda easily, and it shows it's wear and tear quite a bit. Now there's still gonna have some wear and tear, you know, anytime you put a ball in a coupler and you haul it around, but this is gonna minimize that. Then the rest of the assembly, so the shank is gonna be a black powder coat finish. So that's gonna help it stand up to the elements and not rust and corrode as easily over time. Overall, I think it's a good ball mount kit. I liked that it comes with everything you need to get started right away. So the ball is already torqued down, you got a pin and clip in there already. And as long as you can use it in the drop position, you can just throw it your hitch and go. Now overall though, if you're looking for something else where maybe you want that locking hitch pin in there, I would think about TowSmart. They also make kits for towing, for ball mounts and they have different rises and drops too. So if you wanna look into that, you can do that as well, but it already comes with a locking hitch pin in there. That way, if you don't feel like looking to buy something else outside the kit, you just want it all at once, buy it at one time and then start using it. That'd be a good way to go too, `cause they have that option. But if you don't care about the locking hitch pin, this one's gonna be just fine. It's gonna be great. Like I said, since it's all set up and ready to go, if you we're to have to flip it though, let's say you had to adjust it to go in the rise position. One thing with that TowSmart as well is it had those locking rails on the side. So this one you're gonna have to put in a vice and hold it, then loosen the ball, flip around, torque that back down. With the locking rails on the TowSmart, it holds the ball in place right there. So you can just throw it in your hitch, put that ball in there and you use one tool to tighten it down. You still have to torque it, but you don't need a vice to hold it in place. So if that's maybe thinking right away, you're going, "Well, I need to flip it around "and adjust that." Maybe look at the TowSmart. They might be the better option for you. Well, I think that does it. Thanks for hanging out. And I hope this helped..