Video Transcript for Ultimate Overview of the Trailer Hitch Receiver Adapter

So, you have a two inch hitch, but you have a 1 1/4" accessory for that hitch. Well, etrailer designed a couple of different reducers, to reduce your two inch down to 1 1/4" so you can use those accessories. All of our reducers are going to be a hollow shank, so we can put an anti-rattle device on the inside of there, if we wanted to. But this is the longest one of all of them. So, from the center of each hole the distance is seven inches, so that's the amount you're going to extend off, but you're also gonna reduce it as well. The distance from the center of the hitch-side hole to the edge is gonna be 2 3/8".

And then right here is gonna be 1 5/8" from the face to the center of our hole. So, all you gotta do is just put it in like any other accessory. Line it up. And it does not come with a hitch pin or clip, but you want to get a 5/8" diameter, just because there's not much play there at all. And the reason why I talk about the hollow shank is you really do want to put a anti-rattle system in place.

So, you can either use the little piece that goes on the inside of the shank of our accessory, or there's another thing we can do, which is our anti-rattle device. So, this one can be used with hollow or the solid shanks, and it just goes like this. Let me line this up. You'll want to make sure that lip is facing down. There's a washer that we put on each of 'em, and then a lock washer we put on each of 'em, and then we just take this little nut on both sides, snug it down.

And the last thing we need to do is push this all the way up against our hitch receiver tube. Get it tightened down the best you can by hand, and then take a 3/4" socket to tighten it down. You wanna be pretty even with this to make sure it's nice and snug up against the hitch receiver. Kind of jump from one side to the other until it's nice and tight. And as you can see, and hear, there's no rattling going on, and it is one with our hitch receiver.

Something I definitely recommend grabbing, especially if you're already grabbing a hitch pin and clip for it. So now, all your 1 1/4" accessories are gonna be able to work, even if you do have a two inch hitch receiver. If you do have a 1 1/4" ball mount, you do not want to tow with these. That's just how it is. So, this isn't gonna be a solution for those who want to use that 1 1/4" ball mount to haul your trailer. It is gonna have a capacity of 350 pounds tongue weight, and 3,500 pounds gross trailer weight, but look at the rating of your hitch on your vehicle and cut that in half. Because with any reducer, whether it's etrailer's brand, or any of the others on our website, it will cut that capacity in half. You don't have to get a new accessory to fit your new size hitch, and you don't need to swap out your hitches just to use your one accessory you had before. Problem solved with the etrailer hitch reducer..