B&W Tow & Stow 2-Ball Mount - 2.5" Hitch - 5" Drop/4.5" Rise - 14.5K - Chrome

Video Transcript for Review of B and W Adjustable Ball Mount - BWTS20037C

Today we're going to take a look at the B&W Tow and Stow chrome adjustable two-ball mount for two and a half inch hitches. Now this ball mount, with these built in hitch balls, will let you hook up your trailer to your tow vehicle. The shank portion right here, this is what will slide into your two and a half inch hitch receiver and the hitch balls will provide the connection point for your trailer coupler.The thing I want to mention on the shank is if you notice they round off, or chamfer, the edges so there's no sharp edges, makes it a lot easier to install and remove this from your hitch. The balls you can see there are two different size hitch balls. This will let you tow trailers with different coupler sizes, and to switch the ball, it's very easy to do. You just remove the pin and clip, rotate the balls, reinsert the pin and clip and you're ready to go.Right now you have a two inch ball showing.

If you want to switch it to the larger one, just pop off your clip, pull out the pin, and that will allow you to rotate it to the larger two and 5/16 ball. Put your pin back through. Put your clip on and you're all ready to go.Now the gross towing weight capacity of this ball mount will depend on what size diameter ball you are using at the time. If you're going to use the larger ball, which is the two and 5/16 diameter ball, the gross towing weight capacity is 14,500 pounds. If you switch it to the smaller two inch ball, it's going to be 7,500 pounds, and those weight capacities are stamped on the top of each ball so you know.Other nice feature on this, it will offer adjustable height, which will let you tow trailers of different heights with the same vehicle.

You can slide this ball mount up or down along this shank and secure it in place with these pins and clips, and it will get you whatever rise and drop you need.Now the maximum drop it will offer as the position it is in now, it's going to be five inch maximum drop. If we flip it over and do a maximum rise, that will be four and a half inches. And again you can adjust it with ever drop or rise you need by sliding it along that shank. Those holes are at one inch increments center to center, so you can move it an inch at a time to whatever height or drop you need.Just to show you how to do that, we'll go ahead and pop these clips, pull out these pins, and with those out, now you can see that this ball platform can slide up or down to whatever position you need to get your correct height. Once you find what height you need, just go ahead and slide your pins back through.

And then take your clips and go ahead and clip it into place. Now one of the things I do want to mention is when you do change your height adjustment on this, you always want to make sure that you use both pins. You don't want to drop it to where you can only use one pin to hold it in place. You always have to use the two pins.Now the other neat feature on this, the main feature on this is the stowable design. They call this a Tow and Stow, so the stowable design will let you store this ball and the whole mounting platform up underneath your vehicle.

Keeps it out of the way, keeps it all flush up here, nothing sticking out that somebody could bump their shins on or run into something with. And to do that, all you have to do is first take out the clip for the hitch balls, take your pin out. You want to rotate that to the horizontal position and then take your pin and put it through the second hole. The second hole will lock it in that position. And, again, just put your clip back in there.And the reason you'll do that is because when you go to stow it, you'll take out these pins and clips right here, the same ones you moved for the height adjustment. And then all you have to do is just flip this right up under, just like that. Line the holes back up, put your pins through there, clip it, and now the two balls are up under your vehicle. This will be the only thing showing out the back, so you won't have anything to run into. That's a very nice feature, the stowable design on this.The other nice thing about this, it does offer an anti-theft design, so that ensures that the ball mount platform here can't be just removed from your hitch. When this is installed into your hitch receiver on your vehicle, basically with this installed and if you put a hitch lock through here to hold it into place, they won't be able to get your ball platform off it all. To get it off, you have to line it with these two cutouts here and when it's installed in the hitch, you can't line it up with those, so as long as this is locked into your hitch receiver, there's no way they can get that ball platform off.Now what I'm going to do is go ahead and switch it back up into the towing position. We'll just flip it over, line it back up. Make sure you get two pins in there. And then again, we're going to pull this out. Oops, let's pull the clip out, rotate it back to the two inch ball and we'll put it back into the first hole. Now you're back into the towing position.Now this does use dual process chrome plating on the shank and the balls, helps provide excellent rust resistance. The pins are nice stainless steel to help create sturdy, rust resistant connections when you slide them in the holes. And this is a durable steel construction, uses high yield tubing to offer superior strength.Now we mentioned when you do install this into your hitch receiver, it will require a hitch pin and clip, or a hitch lock, that is not included. You would have to supply those. We do sell those separately on our website. The pin and clip you would need, the pin diameter requires a five eighths inch diameter pin and clip.If you already have one, you can use the one you have. We also mentioned the hitch lock. We do sell those separately on our website and they're usually listed on this product page as a related product. This part is made in the USA. Again, the application is for two and a half inch by two and a half inch trailer hitch receivers.And the last thing I want to do is just give you some measurements from the center of the hitch pin hole to the center of the ball. To do that, what I'm going to do is move this to a more level position. Let's see if we can get it up probably right about to the second hole. We'll go ahead and put our pin through there. There we go, and now it's a little more level, so what we're going to do is measure from these two hitch pin holes to the center of the ball. If we measure from the hitch pin hole closest to the ball, center to center, it's nine and a quarter inches.If we go from the furthest hole from the ball, center to center, is 10 and three eighths inches. And if we measure from the center of these hitch pin holes to the center of the holes right here, the height adjustment holes here, if we use the closest one, it's going to be right at three and three quarter inches. And the furthest one is right at four and seven eighths inches. But again, anytime you put your pins through here, you always want to clip them in place to secure them. That way they won't be sliding out. We'll go ahead and put our clips back in. And now we're all ready to go.But that should do it for the review on the B&W Tow and Stow chrome adjustable two ball mount for two and a half inch hitches.