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Shane: Hi, I'm Shane with etrailer.Com. Today I'm going to walk through you how to install B&W's underbed gooseneck hitch on your 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. Adding a gooseneck hitch like this is going to allow you to pull different gooseneck trailers a lot easier. Not only that, but the ball can be flipped over to give you total bed access when you're not towing those trailers. With this kit, you're going to get a two and five sixteenths ball. You're going to have a 30,000 pound gross towing capacity, 7,500 pound vertical load limit, which is going to be straight up and down on the ball.
I always recommend checking the owner's manual of the vehicle. Make sure the vehicle can withstand that amount of weight. Your always going to go with the lowest number between the vehicle and the hitch. Now what's nice about our ball is we're going to have a square bottom and what that does is it keeps our ball from spinning inside the hole.You'll also notice where our pin goes through. We actually have a hole on all four sides.
So we can put this in any way and as I mentioned before, when we're not using it, we simply flip it over. We can drop the ball down inside and store it just like that. So notice that the edges, we don't actually have corners. They're kind of squared off. This is to help keep dirt and debris from getting stuck down in there.
We'll take our ball out and look down on the bottom. The bottom is actually open. So any dirt that may get down in there will actually fall out the bottom. We're not going to have to worry about it getting stuck and binding up our ball when we're taking it out and putting it back in. Our safety chain loops are going to be spring loaded.
So we're that using them, they sit nicely down in the lower corrugation.When we're not towing our gooseneck, we have our ball flipped over. We're not going to have to worry about anything getting caught on them. We've got total bed access. Another nice thing about this setup is if you have a toolbox in the bed of your truck, like our customer here, maybe you have tanks back here, B&W offers an extension and it's going to replace this ball and it's going to give you a ball that comes back about four inches. This is going to allow you more room when turning for this kind of stuff in the bed of your truck. Keep in mind with using that component, it is going to drop your towing capacity just a little bit. Another really nice feature that I like about the B&W is if you pull fifth wheel trailers, this is going to be compatible with B&W's companion fifth wheel hitches.It's not going to require you to do any changes. You simply remove the ball. You can drop your fifth wheel hitch into place on top of your bed and it bolts down or gets torqued down right inside of this center section here. We're going to have an easy spring loaded pull handle. Simply pull it out, twist it. That locks it open. Drop your ball in place, twist it and release it. This kit is also going to have a nice gray powder coat finish. B&W goes out of their way with these hitches, very thick steel construction. So we don't have to worry about it breaking down over time. In my opinion, I recommend B&W over some of the other ones out there. I think they do a great job on building their hitches. Another thing that I would recommend when installing this kit in your truck if you don't already have it and that would be the 90 degree wiring harness. You're going to have a seven pole plug. It's going to mount right in the bed of your truck.It's going to keep you from having to take your wiring and put it over the top of your tailgate. It's going to hook directly into factory wiring on your bumper and it's going to allow you not only to utilize the seven pole plug in the bed, but also you're able to use the factory plug that's on the back of the truck. Now that we've gone over some of the features, let me walk you through how to get it installed. First thing we need to do to start our installation is we need to measure for the hole we're going to be drilling for our gooseneck ball. For a spray in bed liner, you need to remember when measuring, add about a 16th of an inch for the thickness of it. If you have a drop in bed liner, I would suggest taking it out first. You also want to measure for your bed size. We have a short bed. So we're going to be going about 44 and 3/4 plus that 16th. So I'm going to measure there and where we're measuring from is right from the end of our bed.You want to make sure you're not going from the tailgate. Once we find that, we need to center it between our wheel wells. Next, we