Gen-Y Torsion 2-Ball Mount - 2-1/2" Hitch - 3" Rise/6" Drop - 32K

Video Transcript for Gen-Y Torsion 2-Ball Mount Review

Hi everyone. Aiden here with etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at this Gen-Y Torsion Ball Mount. This is gonna be for our two and a half inch hitches, and it's going to be a really high end, adjustable ball mount that gives us a lot of options for towing, but it's also going to be a shock absorbing system. The torsion system inside is going to help absorb any sort of road shock that we're experiencing going down the road. So, if you've got a heavy load on our trailer and that's bouncing up and down it's not going to transfer all of that shock and vibration to our vehicle, making for a much smoother and more enjoyable towing experience.

Let's check it out. So, before we get too far into this I do wanna point out that this is a very large ball mount with a heavy weight rating. You're going to have a 16,000 pound gross trailer weight rating on the two inch ball included in the kit, that's how much it can tow, with a maximum tongue weight of 1500 pounds. We can flip that ball around though to the two and five sixteenths one. Now, this one's going to carry a much heavier weight capacity at 32,000 pounds of gross trailer weight rating and then a max tongue weight of 3,500 pounds.

So again, very high weight rating just because the ball mount is rated for that, you do wanna make sure that your vehicle and your hitch are up to the task as well. But with this, if you don't need this much capacity I would recommend looking into some of these smaller rated ones. There's plenty of options that'll still work with the two and a half inch hitch, and they also give you a variety of different drop and rise options. Now, the way the torsion system works is in here and here we've got a solid metal bar that runs the whole length of the ball mount. That bar is gonna be surrounded by thick rubber cords and as the weight of your trailer is moving up and down that's going to be twisting those rubber cords and helping to absorb that shock in here rather than again, having a rigid structure here that transfers all that shock straight into the back of the truck.

It works really well. We've done a lot of testing with it here at etrailer and from all the people that have used these ball mounts they seem to really like them as well. The reason I stress the weight capacity of this one so much is because for that torsion system to work properly it does have a recommended tongue weight. And that recommended tongue weight is gonna be anywhere from 2000 to that 3,500 pound capacity. There's a built-in scale in the back with a hash mark and that sticker, that green zone is gonna be our ideal weight where that torsion system's gonna work really well.

And if you recall the max tongue weight when using that two inch ball, you'll know that it's not going to really be ideal for this. So, this ball mountain is really designed for any sort of heavy dew hauling. It has the capacity to do a two inch ball and some lighter trailers, but the torsion system in this one isn't gonna work super well for it. Now, the red zone on top that it's lined up with right now is showing us that we don't have any tongue weight or just not enough. So, if we we're hooked up to a trailer we could readjust our load and try to get our cargo and things moved towards the front of the trailer and give us more tongue weight. And then that red zone at the very end let's us know that we're overloaded and it's too much for the ball mount to handle. One other thing I wanna point out with the ball mount here is that you've probably noticed that we've got two pins in the side. One of them we've already used. It's holding in the ball itself, whether we wanna switch that two and five sixteenths or the two inch one below that but above, that's going to be for our pintle lock. So, if I remove this, I can slide that pintle lock out, resecure it with the other hole. So, if we have a lunette ring trailer, we can drop it over top and lock it in place with this and now the ball mount will work with those types of trailers. The pintle lock isn't required. You can remove it if you want to. You will have to get the ball out of there first just to fully remove it. So, if you don't have a need for it no need to worry about it. You can just set this to the side. But if you do need it, it's included and you don't have to worry about getting it separately. With this, you are going to get up to a six inch drop and that's in the lowest position where it's at right now. And by removing the ball, you can move it up to get up to a three inch rise. Now, let's say we need a little bit more room than that, maybe we need more than that three inch rise. We can remove the entire thing from the hitch receiver on our vehicle and flip it around to get a little bit more rise than drop. A couple things to point out when you are flipping it around is that they don't include a hitch pin for the vehicle side. I would strongly recommend picking up a locking hitch pin for something like this just so it's secure. And whenever we are taking it out of the receiver tube, it is very heavy. This thing is definitely built tough and you can feel that whenever you're lifting it in and out of the hitch because it is a monster. But getting it flipped around is still doable on your own. I just advise that you use good lifting technique and lift from the legs of course. And as we slide it into the hitch, you'll notice that we do have two different hitch pin holes rather to choose from. One that's gonna give us a little more clearance and stick out a bit further from the vehicle, only by about an inch but it does give us some more room. And the innermost one, which I will use today. (metal clanking) Like I kind of mentioned before this is really solid construction, all steel, zinc primer, and a powder coat finish on top of that to help resist rust and corrosion over time. Just by lifting it, you can tell it's really well made and it's gonna be built to last. The nice thing about the torsion system and what a lot of people like about it is because it's very low maintenance. All we really need to worry about is greasing it every 3000 miles or so is what Gen-Y recommends. They've got fittings at the top and the bottom to make that really easy to do as well. And that's really all there is to it for the Gen-Y Torsion Ball Mount. This one is really designed for heavy hauling. So, if you don't have a load that you're frequently carrying that's going to be in that really high tongue weight range, then I would look at one of the more light duty ones from Gen-Y. They've got some that go all the way down to a 10K gross towing weight capacity. So, if you don't need anything super heavy, I'd go with one of those because it's gonna be easier to load it into that ideal range for it to work with your tongue weight. But if you have really heavy loads that you're gonna be carrying and you need something that's up to the task then this one certainly fits the bill. Thanks for watching.