Install: EcoHitch Hidden Front Mount Trailer Hitch Receiver on a 2022 Chevrolet Silverado 3500

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Hello, neighbors, it's Brad, here at etrailer. And today, we're taking a look and installing the EcoHitch Front Hitch on a 2022 Chevy Silverado 3500. Now this is what the front hitch is gonna look like when it's installed. And it does require some trimming to get this nice, clean look, but really it sits really well on the front bumper. And the recommendations as far as cutting goes, they've done a fine job of really making this nice and clean and you still have the air dam that goes under. So it looks really factory almost and it protrudes just a little bit, but just enough to be able to get your accessories in without looking to unsightly.
A front hitch is something that not normally people think about unless they've done snow plows or wenches up front. But they've become more and more popular over time, because it adds a little bit of real estate to the front so that way you can add your cargo carriers or bike racks, or even putting a ball mount here. If you need to move some trailers around a lot, no problem, you can hook it up to the front and it makes it easy to push them around. Now as far as weight capacities go, this is rated pretty high. You're gonna have a 10,000 pound line pull.
So pretty decent to be able to move some stuff around or have that wench up there. And if you are loading up those suspended accessories on here, you have a tongue weight rating of 1,000 pounds. So I really don't worry about overloading that too much. So pretty heavy duty, and it's gonna really open it up to the work that can be done with the truck. Now, unlike some other front hitches that are on the market, this one actually has safety chain loops.
Now they are tucked back quite a ways here, but you're able to hook up pretty easily here. Even a larger clevis-style hook will also go on here, so that does open it up a little bit to what you can use this for. Now as far as some of our measurements here, you can see our hitch pin hole, which is gonna be a 5/8 pin and clip, does not come with that. But we're gonna measure from here to the front and you can see, from the furthest point of the front fascia, you're gonna measure the license plate bracket, it's gonna kind of come in at about 3 1/2 inches. That's kind of important for some of your accessories just to kind of see where they sit.
And some of those cargo carriers or bike racks can fold up, so something to consider when choosing accessories. Also, something that's important is gonna be your ground clearance here, 17 inches, so pretty high. So that way if you even have some of those accessories that drop down, no problem, this has plenty of clearance. Now as far as the installation goes, it's really not too terribly hard to do. You are pulling off your center section here, as well as your air dam. And there is gonna be some trimming involved, but it does come with a nice little liner that goes around that. So even those cuts look nice and clean and covered up. Overall, it's just a few bolts. Getting to some of them for torquing them down, a little bit tricky, but this can be done probably within an hour or two, maybe even less, and it can definitely be done in your garage or around the driveway. So let's take a look at the installation and that way you can get your front hitch installed. To begin our installation, we're gonna want to be removing this lower panel here. In order to do that, we're gonna start with these seven millimeter screws. There's gonna be eight of 'em along here. So pretty much just the center section. There's more over here, but for now, we're just gonna remove these. During this whole process, I highly suggest having a place to keep these nice and organized. It's gonna make reinstallation a lot easier. Now there's gonna be eight more seven millimeter screws underneath, so kind of right underneath where our fog lamps are, you're gonna see this step here, so there's two. And then, moving along to this center section, you'll see here. And then on this step down, so there's four in the center, and then two on the other side. You may need an extension to get to these, but we'll go ahead and get these removed. So now we're gonna work our way, these plastic tabs here, we're just gonna kind of push out. And I'm pulling on the outside of our center section here, just kind of making my way down here. Once we get these kind of popped out, we should be able to get this whole section pulled out. And that's just gonna slide out, so we can set this aside for now. So now we're gonna be marking out where we're gonna be doing some cutting. And there's actually a molded portion along here,