Curt EZr Double Lock Underbed Gooseneck Hitch Installation - 2017 Chevrolet Silverado 2500

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Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2017 Chevy Silverado 2500 we're gonna be showing you how to install the CURT Double Lock under-bed gooseneck trailer hitch kit. But before we get into that, why don't we just take a minute, check this out and make sure it's gonna work for you. If I have any gooseneck trailer hitch back here, it's gonna allow you to hook up to all those different types of trailers. Whether you're trying to pull a camper around or a car hauler or whatever you might have, you want a reliable hitch that is gonna provide us with a really secure connection point. That way we can safely tow whatever we're pulling down the road.
And a kit like this is gonna do just that. One of the really nice things is you're still gonna have pretty much full bed access. So the only thing that's gonna be taken up really any space is just your safety chain hooks there, which are spring loaded. So they sit pretty much flush anyway. The ball can flipped over and stored like that.
And they even give you a cap to put over it. And so you're not losing really any of your bed space at all. And that's honestly what our neighbor here today was kinda sick of. So you can probably see the discoloration in the bed. He actually had fifth wheel rails in here and needs to pull a gooseneck.
Well, there's a lot of different things now. You can convert, there's parts you can use to convert your fifth wheel rails into a gooseneck and so on, but he's sick of having all this stuff in the bed. So getting rid of that, putting in this gooseneck hitch, you get to free up all that space and allow him to pull his trailer down the road. I do like the operational handle and I feel like that double lock mechanism is partly due to that. Just keeps everything gliding the way it should, but super easy to operate.
So right now it's in the lock position so the ball, you wanna be able to remove it or put it around or anything. If you're ready to flip it over to tow or flip it over to store it, just pull this out of the ways, rotate it to the left, just a hair, and it'll stay open for you. That way you can go in there, do what you need to do, and then lock it back in. Since this hitch does sit underneath of our bed, it keeps everything free up top and this is what it's gonna look like. So it doesn't interfere with anything or anything along those lines. One of the things that it does separate this hitch from some of the others is it has a double locking pin here. So we can see one of them. The other one's just further up top. So it has two pins, double the security there and double the strength and that's not something you see on a lot of these types of hitches. So definitely isn't gonna hurt anything and the more the better, at least in my opinion. The hitch is gonna come with the 2-5/16 ball. Pretty standard there. It's gonna have a 30,000 pound maximum gross trailer weight rating. So the amount of weight pulling on the hitch. And a 7,500 pound vertical load limits. The amount of weight pushing down on it. I do always like to suggest, though, just be on the safe side, never a bad idea to grab your truck's owner's manual. That way you can check in there and make sure it can handle that much weight safely. But overall, a good all around hitch. To be honest with you, usually I'm partial to B&W hitches. They're really well-made and I was pretty surprised at this one. CURT's definitely not bad by any means. Just when it comes to in-bed hitches and things like that, B&W shines in my opinion. But I was actually really surprised and impressed with this one. It went together really good, didn't have to fight it really at all. Everything's well-made and it feels like it's really secure and just a good fit for the truck. So I feel like that's most important when it really comes down to it 'cause you're pulling some heavy stuff around. I definitely wouldn't hesitate to use it on my own truck. As far as getting installed goes, like I said, everything went together pretty smooth. Didn't really run into too many issues at at all. It is time consuming, a lot of stuff to put on. My least favorite part is probably having to torque all the bolts down, a little arm workout there, but as long as you take your time you should be in pretty good shape. With that said though, why don't we go ahead and install it together now. To begin our installation, we're gonna be underneath the back of our truck and what I've done is just temporarily lowered and removed our spare tire. Just makes it a lot easier to work under here. What I'm also gonna do, there's this plastic little shield here, I'm gonn