B&W Heavy-Duty Trailer Hitch Receiver - Custom Fit - Class V - 2"

Video Transcript for Trailer Hitch Installation - 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 3500 - B&W

Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 3500, we're going to take a look at and show you how to install the BMW Heavy Duty Class V Trailer Hitch Receiver, offering a 2-inch by 2-inch opening. Its part number is BDWHDRH25600. This is what our hitch is going to look like installed. As you can see, a really clean look. Our crosstube is going to stay mainly hidden back behind the bumper area there. Got our safety chain connection points that are going to come down on an angle, so these should be easy to get to, easy to connect our chains to. You'll see that reinforcement collar welded around the end of the hitch, going to give us superior durability. Now, I like this hitch because it's rated for class V, but it's got the 2-inch by 2-inch receiver tube opening, so this is going to allow it, have a lot more adaptability.

You can use class III bike racks or cargo carriers or class III rated accessories in it as long as they're rated for the capacities in which you want to tow and haul. If you're going to use it to its fullest potential, then you'll want to use a 2-inch class V rated ball mount or something that's rated up to the capacities you intend to haul. It's rated very highly as far as tow weights and tow ratings go, so this is going to be a very good hitch for those heavy duty towing jobs. When you've got a big trailer and big equipment, we need to get it from point A to point B. This is going to be a great solution. It's going to use a 5/8 diameter pinhole, so you can use class III, class IV, class V accessories.

Again, you just want to make sure that weight rating is appropriate for the weight that you intend to haul. The hitch itself is rated for up to 1,600 pounds' worth of tongue weight. That would be the maximum downward force that we can put here at our receiver tube opening, and it gives us a 16,000-pound gross trailer weight rating. That would be the total weight of our trailer and then anything that we we're to load up on it. Those ratings are going to be the same whether we're using weight distribution or not. You'll just want to make sure that the truck is rated for that amount as well, so you'll look into the owner's manual on that, see what its tow rating is, then just go off of whichever of those is going to be the lowest. Now, a couple of measurements that are helpful for selecting ball mounts, bike racks, or hitch cargo carriers, will be from the ground to the inside top edge of our receiver tube opening, we've got about 22 inches.

Then from the center of our hitch pinhole to the outermost edge of our bumper, it's about 1-1/2. Now to begin our installation, we need to get our side plates installed onto the crossmember there. These are just going to go right over the, into the hitch there. You see the crosstube is actually going to come out through. Then, we're going to take our 1-1/2-inch bolts. These are M12's.

We'll slide those through. We'll have 4 locations here to do that in. We'll want to place on a lock washer and 1 of our hex nuts on each of our bolts there. Just want the side plate lip or that flange to be facing out away from the hitch. Now, we'll snug these down. We're going to use a 19mm. We'll do that for our other side. Now, on each side of our frame rail there's going to be an M14 bolt here in the very back. You can see our customer already removed his hitch out of here just to give us some room. We want to get those removed on both sides. Now, with an extra set of hands, we'll get our hitch raised up into position here. In the forward attachment point here in the flange we're going to replace that 14mm bolt that we removed on each side. Once we have that threaded in there with 3 or 4 good turns, we'll just let our hitch rest there. Now, we're going to take 1 of our longer hex head bolts. That's going to go down through both of our attachment points. The nice thing about it is the frame is already predrilled, so we can bring those right down through without too much of an issue. Now, there's another spacer plate that needs to go on. We'll follow that up with a lock washer and then 1 of our hex nuts. Now, we're going to do that for our 3 remaining locations, 2 on each side. Now, as we get our other hardware put in place, we're going to use the larger spacer block to go inside of the frame rail, bring that down through. Then, you're going to have the smaller spacer block that'll go on the bottom side here, which is offset a little bit. That goes on. We've got a locking washer that's going to go on, then our hex nut. Now we're going to do this for the 1 remaining location that we have on this side, which will be the hole that's just a little further forward in the hitch, and then we'll need to go over to the passenger side and do the 2 over there. All right. Now, we'll snug down our hardware. Now, for the hex bolts, you're going to need an open-ended box wrench just to put in there and help keep it from spinning. It's going to be a 19mm, same as the hex nut. Now, we're going to head around and torque down all of our fasteners to the frame here. The instructions will have the appropriate torque specifications listed for you, so just go by those. All right. Now once we've got all of those torqued down on the outside, we want to check the line between the crossmember and our side plates. We want to make sure that these line up really well. Then, we can snug down these bolts the rest of the way, and we'll torque those to the appropriate specifications as well. All right. With those torqued down properly, our hitch is ready for use. With everything torqued down to specification, that's going to complete our installation of the BMW Heavy Duty Trailer Hitch Receiver, Class V rated, part number BDWHDRH25600, on our 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 3500.