Video Transcript for The Low-Down on the Gen-Y Adjustable 2-Ball Mount w/ Stacked Receivers-325-GH-323

Hi, everyone. Aiden here at "etrailer." Today we're gonna be taking a look at this Gen Y adjustable ball mount for two inch hitches. These come in a variety of different drop sizes which we'll talk about in this video. They all function the same way and they'll all work with your two inch hitches. Let's check it out. Now, first things first here we are gonna have two different options in terms of which ball we can use.

There's a two inch ball right here but we can easily remove the pin and clip, flip this around to the two and five sixteenths inch ball and use that to hook up to our trailers. So if we have multiple trailers we're towing and we often need to switch between these two different sizes, then we've got that option here built right in. The other option we have here with the second pin clip is the pin-to-lock attachment. Just unpin it. Drop your lunette ring trailer over the top, bring that out and re-pin it, and now we can tow that type of trailer, too.

If you've got multiple different trailer types and one of them happens to be a lunette ring trailer you can use it with this ball mount. Regardless of how we're using this though we are going to have the same 10,000 pound gross trailer weight rating and 1500 pound tongue weight rating. As for the height adjustment we have here this particular version that we've got in our hitch today is a five inch drop or a five inch rise. There's multiple different sizes of these. This is the shortest drop that we have available and the largest one is up to a 15 inch drop.

Again, all of those can be flipped around to the rise position by completely removing it from the hitch and flipping the whole thing upside down and getting that amount of rise. So you've got a lot of options there. There's one minor variation of this five inch drop that has an extra receiver tube stacked on top. So if you find yourself needing to frequently switch between a small rise and a somewhat larger drop or vice versa, you can check out that version. It's gonna again, function the same way with the stack receivers and the weight capacities but that one just has an extra receiver up top so you don't have to flip the whole thing around your hitch every time you need a little bit of rise.

Flipping this around in the hitch we will need to get the hitch pin removed which it doesn't come with. I would strongly recommend a locking hitch pin if you're gonna go that route. Etrailer makes a great one that threads in. It's easy to use, but then to flip it around all they gotta do is take it out the hitch, flip the whole thing around, reinsert it and then re-pin it. (metal clanking) Now as I take this out of the hitch to flip it back around you will probably notice that there's two hitchpin holes here to choose from. They're gonna be spaced one inch apart and if we want to, we can use this outer one to get us a little extra clearance from our vehicle. Now, for the purposes of this video we're gonna be taking our measurements from the innermost hole and giving you those references there. If you intend on using it in that outer position, just add an inch. Some measurements in this position we wanna check out. We're gonna go from the center of the hitchpin hole to the center of the ball itself to see where your trailer's gonna hook up and that's gonna be 11 and five eighths of an inch. From that same point to the very outer edge of the ball mount, that's going to be 13 inches. So that's how much it's gonna stick out whenever you've got it in your vehicle but there is a storage position here. With it in the drop position, we can unpin this and actually flip the whole assembly backwards like this and re-pin it into the stacked receivers here to cut down on that distance by quite a bit so it doesn't stick out near as far from your hitch now. Taking that distance added all the way down to eight and five eighths of an inch to this outer face right here. Now both the ball and the pin-to-lock here have a black powder coat finish on there. That's gonna help resist rust and corrosion over time although it doesn't make it immune. If it does get scratched up and scuffed you might notice that, but it will help. And then the main assembly itself has a zinc primer with this textured powder coat finish which gives it a really unique and cool look but it does help with durability quite a bit and seems to do a little bit better than just a standard powder coat. Now, one bonus to the stacked receiver design here is although it makes for a very intuitive height adjustment it can also accept other accessories. So if we have our ball mount in here most of the time, but on occasion maybe you need to throw a bike rack in here we have that option because this is a standard two inch by two inch receiver tube and it uses standard five eighth inch diameter pinholes. So if you've got those accessories and you want to use 'em but you don't wanna take out the ball mount then you've got that option. Now when it comes to adjustable ball mounts you've got a lot of options out there ranging from the really entry level options all the way up to the really high end ones. If you're looking for something that isn't going to be just the bare bones and has some extra features like those stack receivers we can use for other accessories or coming with the pin-to-lock attachment right out of the box, or just something that has really high quality build and solid construction then I think this option from Gen Y is really the way to go. Whether you've got a stock truck or a lifted one and you need a really aggressive drop, you can probably find the right one to fit you and your trailer, and regardless of which one you go with I think it's gonna last for a very long time. But that'll do it for our look at these two inch adjustable ball mounts from Gen Y. Thanks for watching.